Birgit Siber, a principal at Diamond Schmitt Architects, is to be recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her commitment to sustainable design by Sustainable Buildings Canada (SBC).
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The award acknowledges Siber?s many green building initiatives through advocacy, research, innovation and design excellence across a range of building types.
?This award is for exemplary devotion to the cause of greater sustainability in the built environment,? said Mike Singleton, SBC Executive Director.
Since 1996, Siber has practiced architecture at Diamond Schmitt and became a principal in 2003.
She led the design installation of the first large-scale living wall biofilter at the University of Guelph Humber campus more than a decade ago, which spawned dozens more in Diamond Schmitt projects in Canada and the U.S. Photo Courtesy of guelphhumber.ca
Siber also spearheaded ecoMetrics, an energy-use benchmarking databank and analysis tool to highlight and inform strategies for energy-use reduction.
As project architect, Siber has focused on institutional and laboratory projects including: the LEED Platinum certified CANMET Metallurgical Materials laboratory in Hamilton and the recipient of the 2015 AIA COTE Top 10 Award for sustainable design.
In 2019, Wilfrid Laurier University?s Lazaridis Hall achieved LEED Gold certification and won a Civic Trust Award (UK) and SCUP Excellence in Architecture Award (USA).
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