Judging

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Judging will take place in two stages.  Stage One will be scored by a 4-person team comprised of an expert from each of the following disciplines:
  • Civil Engineering: Don Rissmeyer, PE
  • Landscape Architecture: Kennon Williams, ASLA
  • Low Impact Development: Thomas Schueler
  • Architecture: Patrick Farley, AIA/LEED


The Stage One judges will select finalists, and their scores will represent 80% of the competitor’s final scores.
Finalists will be announced on March 26, 2012.

In Stage Two of the competition, finalists will present their entries, verbally and through use of Power Point, to a Jury Panel made up of interested and influential Virginia leaders from the development, civic and government community. The scores of the Jury Panel will account for 20% of the Total Final Score and will be combined with the scores from Stage One to determine the winners in each category.  Presentation of Awards to the winners will be at the 23rd Annual Environment Virginia Symposium on Thursday, April 12th, 2012.

Confirmed Dignitary Judges:
  • Lamont (“Bud”) Curtis, PE, DEE, Parsons Brinkerhoff
  • Ann Jennings, Virginia Executive Director of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation 
  • David Johnson, Director of the Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation
  • MajorDavid W. Johnstone, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Military Institute
  • Larry Land, Director of Policy Development for the Virginia Association of Counties
  • Joe Lerch, Director of Environmental Policy for the Virginia Municipal League
  • Anthony Moore, Assistant Secretary of Natural Resources for Virginia
  • Kimball Payne, City Manager of the City of Lynchburg
  • Captain John (“Ned”) Riester, Ph.D., P.E., Chair of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Virginia Military Institute
  • Mike Rolband, P.E., P.W.S., P.W.D., LEED® AP, Wetland Studies & Solutions
  • David Tyeryar, Deputy Secretary of Transportation for Virginia

A cash prize in the amount of $15,000 will be awarded to the winner in each of the three development categories.