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Past Award Winners

Go Beyond Awards

Sustainable Purchasing

Go Beyond Awards

A unique awards program honoring organizations, individuals, products,and projects that are advancing sustainable, high-performance facilities.

2019 Go Beyond Awards

• Individuals
  • Nicholas Ciancio, University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB) Green Labs Program
  • Nilesh Dagia, o2h
  • GSS-CA/DCT/FDA-JLC Team Water Treatment Program, Food and Drug Administration's Jefferson Laboratories Complex
  • National Institutes of Health (NIH) Green Labs Program
• Projects
  • Dow Chemical Water and Process Solutions Laboratory Building, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
  • Center for Natural Sciences, Mathematics & Nursing, Bowie State University (BSU)
  • MIT.nano, Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT)

2018 Go Beyond Awards

• Individuals
  • Alison Farmer, kW Engineering
  • Erika Daley, My Green Lab
  • I²SL New England Chapter
  • Olivia Corriere and Zach Walker, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• Projects
  • Energy Research Institute, China National Offshore Oil Corporation
  • Science and Engineering Complex, Tufts University

2017 Go Beyond Awards

• Individuals
  • Allen Doyle, University of California, Davis
  • Building and Construction Authority, Singapore
• Products
  • CoolLED pE-300 Series
• Projects
  • Interdisciplinary Science & Engineering Complex, Northeastern University
  • Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories, Johns Hopkins University

2016 Go Beyond Awards

• Individuals
  • Kathryn Ramirez-Aguilar, University of Colorado Boulder
  • Steve Black, CRB
  • University of California, Irvine, Energy Team
• Products
  • Molekule Air Treatment System
  • Thermo Scientific TSX400 Ultra-Low Freezer
• Projects
  • Bristol Community College: John J. Sbrega Health and Science Building
  • Harvard University: Sherman Fairchild Biochemistry Laboratory

2015 Go Beyond Awards

• Individuals
  • James Dykes, Sustainable Labs Canada
  • Allison Paradise, My Green Lab
• Projects
  • Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
  • National University of Ireland: Galway Biosciences Research Building

2014 Go Beyond Awards

• Individual Award: Terrance Alexander, Henry Baier, Andrew Berki, and Dr. Sudhakar Reddy; University of Michigan Sustainable Laboratory Certification Program
• User Product Award: Global Cooling, Inc.'s Stirling Ultracold Model SU78OUE -80°C Upright Ultra-Low Freezer
• Project Award: Energy Innovation Laboratory
• Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Laboratory Operations and Maintenance: EcoDomus, Inc.

The Go Beyond Awards were on hiatus during the 2013 I²SL Annual Conference.

2012 Go Beyond Awards

• Individual Award: John Weale, Integral Group
• Organizational Awards:
• The Center for Energy Efficient Design at The Leonard A. Gereau Center for Applied Technology and Career Exploration
• Johnson County, Kansas
• New Construction Project Awards:
• Blackfeet Community College Math/Science Building
• The Center for Energy Efficient Design at The Leonard A. Gereau Center for Applied Technology and Career Exploration
• Johnson County Sheriff's Office Criminalistics Laboratory
• Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences

2011 Go Beyond Awards

• Individual Award: Brad Cochran, CPP
• Innovative Technology and Systems Award: California Institute of Technology
• New Construction Project Award: Teaching and Research Winery and the August A. Busch III Brewing and Food Science Laboratory at the University of California, Davis
• Equipment Manufacturers' Award: Waldner, Inc.

2010 Go Beyond Awards

• Individual Awards:
• Punit Jain, Cannon Design
• Dwayne Willmer, Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC)
• Organization Award: Sandia National Laboratories
• Equipment Manufacturer Award: Tek-Air

2009 Go Beyond Awards

• Individual Awards:
• D. Randall Lacey, Cornell University
• Honorable Mention: Thomas C. Smith, Exposure Control Technologies, Inc.
• New Construction Project Award: Yale University Class of 1954 Chemistry Research Building
• Renovation or Adaptive Reuse Project: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Muirkirk Road Complex
• Equipment Manufacturer Award: Aircuity, Inc.

2008 Go Beyond Awards

• Individual Awards:
• Karl Brown, California Institute for Energy and Environment, University of California (UC)
• Honorable Mention: Peter Rumsey, Rumsey Engineers
• Honorable Mention: Bill Wise, EPA
• Organization Awards:
• Laboratory Research and Technical Staff (LabRATS), University of California at Santa Barbara
• Honorable Mention: University of California
• New Construction Project Awards:
• Northern Arizona University Applied Research and Development Facility
• Honorable Mention: Science and Engineering I Building at the University of California at Merced
• Equipment Manufacturer Award: Lab Crafters, Inc.

Sustainable Purchasing

The opportunity to reduce the environmental impact of laboratories through sustainable procurement is enormous. The International Institute for Sustainable Laboratories (I²SL) recognizes institutions that have demonstrated initiative or progress in sustainable procurement through the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Award. Nominations were open to any institution (such as universities, government, and nonprofit organizations) with laboratory facilities that met one or more of the following criteria:

• The institution actively encouraged sustainable procurement in laboratories at multiple levels (e.g. staff, scientists, administration).
• The institution reached out to suppliers to request information about the environmental impact of products and packaging.
• The institution made a commitment to promoting and purchasing ACT labeled products and/or requested ACT label adoption by suppliers.

Institutions were recognized in two categories in 2019:

1. Improvement: Institutions that have made substantial progress on the above criteria (this category includes past recognees).
2. Initiative: Institutions that have demonstrated motivation to in some way meet the above criteria (this category excludes past recognees).

I²SL also continued to recognize manufacturers that offered ACT-labeled products in 2019.

2019 Recognees

I²SL honored the following institutions for taking initiative in sustainable purchasing in 2019:

• National Institutes of Health Liver Diseases Branch
• University of Birmingham

I²SL honored the following institutions for improving sustainable purchasing in 2019:

• Harvard University
• University of British Columbia
• University of Colorado Boulder
• University of Georgia
• University of Virginia

The following manufacturers obtained the ACT label in 2019:

• Labcon
• Chart
• Miele
• Micronic
• Stirling Ultracold

The following manufacturers obtained the ACT label in 2018 and expanded their ACT-labeled inventory in 2019:

• Eppendorf
• MilliporeSigma
• Priorclave North America
• Thermo Fisher Scientific

2018 Recognees

The 2018 I²SL Annual Conference Go Beyond Awards Luncheon featured a new set of awards recognizing manufacturers which are participating in My Green Lab’s ACT Label effort, as well as institutions that have begun to implement procedures to purchase environmentally preferable laboratory products. “ACT” stands for Accountability, Consistency, and Transparency, and the ACT label is like an eco-nutrition label for laboratory products.

The following manufacturers obtained the ACT label in 2018:

• CoolLED
• Eppendorf
• MilliporeSigma
• Priorclave North America
• Thermo Scientific Nalgene

The following institutions were recognized for their purchasing efforts in 2018:

• Cleveland Clinic
• Duke University
• Emory University
• Harvard University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
• University of British Columbia
• University of California, Office of the President
• University of California, San Diego
• University of California, Santa Barbara
• University of Colorado, Boulder
• University of Georgia
• University of Virginia