US Green Building Council NY Chapter inaugurates LEEDers award.The US Green Building Council New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of (USGBCNY) LEEDers Awards, inaugurated this year, will be presented to an individual whose exceptional contributions have made the organization the premier authority on green building in the New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. . The 2007 LEEDers Award will be presented to Joyce LaValle, Senior Vice President of Associate and Client Engagement at interface, Inc. The Awards dinner will take place on April 27, 2007 at Studio 450 at 450 West 31st Street in NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City between 6:30-11PM. "We are thrilled to have the support of Green Depot who has so creatively responded to the new market and developed such a valuable resource to support the building activities of the green community" states Murray Levi, AIA AIA - Application Integration Architecture , LEED AP, USGBCNY Board Member and Chair of the Program and Education Committee. GREEN DEPOT, the #1 source for environmentally friendly Environmentally friendly, also referred to as nature friendly, is a term used to refer to goods and services considered to inflict minimal harm on the environment.[1] building supplies in the Northeastern US, and is the sponsor of the 2007 LEEDers Award. Green Depot's mission is to make green building products and services readily accessible so that green building can be affordable, easy, worthwhile and gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. . Founded in late 2005, GREEN DEPOT's leading investors include the founding owners of MarJam Supply Corp. For 27 years MarJam has been a leading supplier of building materials to large scale commercial building contractors in the northeastern US. "Green Depot is thrilled to be a part of the LEEDers Awards. New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. has always been a city defined by its innovation and strength. It is gratifying to acknowledge Joyce LaValle as one of those modern day innovators and to stand with the USGBCNY in this important event." states Sarah Beatty, founder of Green Depot. Award recipient Joyce LaValle is a veteran in the commercial interiors industry and advocate for environmental sustainability. Interface revolutionized the commercial floor covering industry by producing America's first free-lay carpet tiles. The LEEDers Award takes its name from the US Green Building Council's rating system, Leadership Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). In sponsoring New York City's first LEEDers Award, Green Depot acknowledges and honors the accomplishments of professionals who are advancing environmentally sound business practices. |
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