I2SL's Go Beyond Awards
Beyond Laboratories
Beyond Green
A unique awards program honoring organizations, individuals, products, and projects that are advancing sustainable, high-performance facilities.
I2SL, in partnership with R&D Magazine, is pleased to announce the first annual Go Beyond Awards. This award program will honor individuals, organizations, projects and laboratory manufacturers that “go beyond” the status quo to minimize the environmental impacts of laboratory and other high-technology facilities and laboratory equipment. Award winners will show their commitment to the goals of Laboratories for the 21st Century (Labs21®) and that excellence in sustainability means going beyond the laboratory, beyond the United States, and beyond being “green” when considering building projects, products, and services. The Go Beyond Awards will recognize these outstanding commitments in the following categories:
As co-sponsor of the Labs21 2008 Annual Conference and Workshops, I2SL will present the Go Beyond Awards at the Labs21 2008 Annual Conference. Award criteria are aligned to support the Labs21 Approach for building sustainable facilities. The award is open to all and is not limited to Labs21-affiliated individuals or organizations.
Award Criteria
Individual Award and Organizational Award: These awards will be presented to an exemplary individual and a commendable organization that have demonstrated an extraordinary commitment to creating and maintaining sustainable, high-performance facilities.
Individuals and Organizations will be judged based on the following criteria:
- Development of a facility project by the nominee or their clients during the period of performance that implements the Labs21 Approach. Where applicable, nominations should include calculated savings attributed to the project(s).
- Implementation of educational activities that the nominee uses to inform all employees, managers, facility staff, and/or clients about the Labs21 Approach and its benefits to the organization or client. The nomination should provide examples of these activities.
- Promotion of Labs21 and its benefits to the laboratory and high-performance building community to other individuals and organizations outside the nominee’s firm. Promotional activities could include presentations at conferences, articles, correspondence, information on company Web sites, and/or meetings where information on Labs21 is provided.
- Participation in the Labs21 2006 and 2007 Annual Conferences through attendance and/or sponsorship.
- Promotion of the Labs21 Conference and Workshops to peers, management, and facility staff. Additional credit will be given if the nomination can show that these parties attended a conference or workshop due to the nominee’s promotional efforts.
View the Individual and Organization Award application questions (PDF 13 KB, 1 pg).
Equipment Manufacturers’ Award: This award will be presented to a manufacturer whose laboratory equipment has contributed significantly to a facility’s performance and sustainability.
Equipment manufacturers will be judged based on the following criteria:
- Dissemination of information to buyers and users which describes the equipments’ contribution to reducing resources employed in the product’s manufacture, use, and disposal.
- Endorsement of product or service by a reputable user, such as a university or another non-biased organization.
- Documentation of the manufacturer’s commitment to the Labs21 Approach in its marketing materials for the product or service.
- Documented performance data for equipment use in a specific project or application.
- Presentation of product at the Labs21 2006 or 2007 Annual Conference Technology and Services Fair.
- Integration of Labs21 goals into its company objectives and products.
View the Equipment Manufacturers' Award application questions (PDF 13 KB, 1 pg).
Project Awards: The three types of awards in this category are:
• New Construction: Given to a newly built facility—and recognizing the architect, engineer, and builder—that best exemplifies the pursuit of Labs21 goals through the use of Labs21 tools, including performance metrics, which support the facility’s performance claims. New construction projects will be judged based on the following criteria:
- Achievement or expectation to achieve the Silver Level for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) for new construction.
- Achievement or expectation to achieve 50% (15 points) of all the Labs21 Environmental Performance Criteria points and prerequisites.
- Submission of facility data to the Labs21 Benchmarking Tool.
- Commitment to prepare within 1-year an in-depth case study of the project for publication.
View the Project - New Construction Award application questions (PDF 13 KB, 1 pg).
• Renovation or Adaptive Reuse: Given to a renovated or adaptive-reuse facility—and recognizing the architect, engineer, and builder—that best exemplifies pursuit of Labs21 goals through the use of Labs21 tools, including performance metrics, which support the facility’s performance claims. Renovation or adaptive reuse will be judged based on the following criteria:
- Achievement or expectation to achieve the Silver Level of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) certification for existing buildings.
- Achievement or expectation to achieve 50% (15 points) of all the Labs21 Environmental Performance Criteria points and prerequisites.
- Submission of facility data to the Labs21 Benchmarking Tool.
- Commitment to prepare within 1-year an in-depth case study of the project for publication.
View the Project - Renovation or Adaptive Reuse Award application questions (PDF 14 KB, 1 pg).
• Innovative Technology and Systems: Given to recognize the inventive use of a specific technology or system that has improved the environmental performance of a laboratory or other high-performance facility. Innovative Technology and Systems submissions will be judged based on the following criteria:
- Use of on-site renewable energy technologies. Nomination should provide an estimate of contribution made to the facility’s utility demand.
- Use of passive design strategies to support renewable technologies. Nomination should provide an estimate of contribution made to the facility’s utility demand.
- Use of water management strategies including rain water collection and storage, green roofs, gray water systems, irrigation, etc. Nomination should provide an estimate of contribution made to the facility’s utility demand.
- Aggressive and innovative energy efficiency and water conserving measures and an estimate of contributions made to the facility’s environmental performance.
- Demonstrates that the technology or system enables a new or existing facility to reach a level of performance required by any of the Labs21 Environmental Performance Criteria.
- Developed a lab “user’s handbook” for facility management and staff to assure the continued operability of new technologies and processes.
Where applicable, all nominations in the Project Award category should provide approximate or estimated savings that result from the use of sustainable features for various projects.
View the Project - Innovative Technology and System Award application questions (PDF 13 KB, 1 pg).
Eligibility
The first annual Go Beyond Awards will recognize achievements accomplished and projects completed from January 1, 2004, through December 31, 2007. I2SL reserves the right to only give awards within each category if a nomination(s) shows merit.
Although the use of the Labs21 Approach and tools, will be favored in the judging of nominations, it is the concept behind these resources—building sustainable, high-performance, low-energy buildings—not the specific use of them, that will be judged within each nomination. Therefore, affiliation with the Labs21 Conference, Workshops, or program is not required to submit a nomination or be considered for an award.
How to Apply
To nominate an individual, organization, or facility for the first annual Go Beyond Awards, please complete the online application.
Applications are due June 30, 2008. Award decisions will be made in Summer 2008.
Awards will be presented at a luncheon ceremony at the Labs21 2008 Annual Conference on September 18, 2008, in San Jose, California.
I2SL looks forward to your participation in this new and exciting awards program and thanks you for your support of Labs21!
The Go Beyond Awards Luncheon is being sponsored by
Grumman/Butkus Associates.
