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AWARDS

Buildings Magazine

Several building projects at UH have received additional recognition for their

designs from BOMA, the Building Owners and Managers Association

International. This organization is one of the largest professional industry

organizations in the world, is widely recognized as a leader in Facilities

Management and Design and includes building owners, designers, engineers,

architects, contractors and consultants in government, education, industry

and private business.

 

Each year BOMA honors the top Interior designs and the top new buildings in

the US in all types of buildings. This year they chose to honor 36 buildings

and interiors for “design innovation” in various categories recognizing various

building types. The UH Welcome Center and the UH Cynthia Woods Mitchell

Center both were honored with Design Innovation awards in their respective

categories (Higher Education New Construction and Higher Education

renovation/Interiors respectively). Both will be featured in BOMA’s

publication Buildings in October 2007. They are the first Texas higher

education buildings to be so honored.

 

In addition those projects which won design innovation awards went judged

by an additional professional jury consisting of two construction and facilities

management professionals, an architect, two interior designers, and the

Buildings magazine editorial team for consideration for Awards of Excellence.

Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center received an Award of Excellence for as the

best project in Higher Education. Only 5 projects nationwide were selected

for Awards of Excellence.

 

Exterior of Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts

Rehearsal Room at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center

New Welcome Center/Parking Garage

 

Keep Houston Beautiful

The University of Houston’s College of Technology Courtyard has been

selected to receive a Keep Houston Beautiful Honorable Mention Award in the

2007 Mayor’s Proud Partners competition. The awards luncheon is set for

Friday, December 3rd at the InterContinental Hotel.

 

 

 

PUBLICITY

 

The University of Houston Groundskeeping team was featured on Houston’s Fox 26 Newscast regarding the installation of native plants on the roof of the new Burdette Keeland Jr. Design Exploration Center. The green roof on the Keeland Building will join a handful of green roofs in Houston. Those include the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the Marriott Houston Downtown.

 

Grounds employees install Gulf Muhly on top of the Burdette Keeland Center.  Photo courtesy of Geoffrey Brune, Associate Professor of Architecture, UH.

                         New Burdette Keeland Jr. Design Exploration Center at the University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture.

Photo courtesy of Paul Hester.

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2008 Summer Carnival

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2006 Plant Ops Holiday Party

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