2019 Award Winners

Congratulations to the winners of our CGBG Awards 2019! Thank you to all our nominees - your hard work and efforts are applauded and greatly appreciated by everyone in the community!

bryan bowen

Bryan Bowen founded Caddis, an architecture firm focused on living lightly on the land and collaborating with wonderful people. Caddis has designed many deeply sustainable projects, including NZE homes with innovative and integrated systems. Most recently, they lead BHP’s award-winning Project Renovate, which involved energy, aesthetic, and functional upgrades to 300 affordable housing units for families and seniors, including “I Have a Dream” Magnet centers. They are currently working on Ponderosa, cohousing, co-ops, CLTs, and sustainable projects nationally. He speaks nationally on net-zero communities, co-ops, and cohousing, and has taught Green Building at Naropa. He also advocates for more sustainable building practices in his position on the City of Boulder’s Planning Board. In this capacity he pushes for stricter energy codes, innovative housing types, low-carbon planning resiliency, and sustainable land use. Bryan was an ex-officio member on the Design Advisory Board and the Landmarks Board, and champions sustainable practices in his personal life, choosing to live in the walkable, mixed-use/mixed-income Holiday Neighborhood in Wild Sage Cohousing. For his community, he has acquired grants for two EVSEs powered by PV, runs a tool share, started a car share, and shares resources to increase happiness and reduce carbon emissions.

Enrico bonilauri

Enrico from Emu Systems is a native of Cavriago, Italy, and is an established expert in the international Passive Construction standard. He is well respected for being able to see complicated cutting-edge data through the lens of practical on-site implementation. He has extensive work experience in Australia, Europe and North America, with a speciality in building envelope design and analysis. His detailed computer simulations for thermal, hygrometric and economic analyses, are informed by the thousands of hours he has spent on varied construction sites. He is the author of the EMU North America. CPHT training textbook, and the lead Trainer for Emu’s CPHT courses since 2017. His training experience include 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 International Passive House Conferences. His education includes a 2006 Master Degree in Architecture from the University of Parma, Italy, and a 2008 Masters of Design Science in Sustainable Design from the University of Sydney, Australia. His professional accreditations include a Registered Italian Architect, an International Associate Architect, a Certified Passive House Designer, and an Approved Passive House Education Provider. 

Sugarloaf Outcrop

Designed by Gettliffe Architecture Located on the eastern slope of Sugarloaf Mountain outside of Boulder, Colorado, this project was inspired by the unique climbing culture prevalent throughout Boulder’s canyons, a community of which the client is an enthusiastic member. The home is a ‘passive solar’ structure, using design features to passively heat the home during the winter months and keep it cool during the summer months. These passive solar strategies include site placement for optimal solar gain, and strategically-sized roof overhangs. During the warmer months when the sun is higher in the sky, these roof overhangs provide shade to keep the interior spaces protected. The western roof overhangs are the largest for preventing overheating during the warmer Fall equinox, while the eastern roof overhang are shorter to allow for the house to warm up early in the morning during the cooler Spring equinox. During colder months the lower sun is welcomed to penetrate the interior spaces, heat up the insulated concrete slabs and warm up the home. The insulated exposed concrete floors act as thermal mass to store heat gained during the day for warming the interior living spaces at night. The site offers a panoramic view of the plains and Boulder Valley to the East, Boulder’s Front Range to the South, and Sugarloaf Mountain to the West. A walkout patio to the southeast provides an easy flow from the interior to the native landscape. With the client’s growing family, the home was designed to grow vertically with another upper floor and a lookout roof terrace added in the future. This project was built by Merrin Construction.