Cambridge Professor Alan Short Delivers “world tour” keynote address

ROCKVILLE, MD—April 6, 2011— Innovative thinkers from across the globe gathered in Washington, DC to recognize the winners of the 2^nd Annual BrickStainable International Design Competition.

Competition winners created sustainable architectural designs using brick as the primary material. Potomac Valley Brick hosted the Awards Ceremony at the National Building Museum, an apropos location, given it is constructed with over 15 million bricks. Among nearly 200 guests included representatives from the EPA Energy Star Program, Integrated Environmental Solutions, Enterprise Green Communities, and the Brick Industry Association.

Potomac Valley Brick awards two grand prize winners and five honorable mentions in its second sustainable design competition.

ROCKVILLE, MD—February 15, 2011— Potomac Valley Brick will award a $10,000 grand prize in the Integrated Building Design Category to Jamillah Muhammad and her team at Perkowitz & Ruth in Virginia (USA). And a It will also award  a $7,500 grand prize in the Technical Design category to Kelly Winn and his team at the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE) in New York (USA).

Masonry Distributor Recognized with Wintergreen Award for Excellence in Green Building Leadership

ROCKVILLE, MD—February 7, 2011—Potomac Valley Brick was recently recognized as  a Market Transformation Leader with a Wintergreen Award for Excellence in Green Building for its creation of the BrickStainable Design Competition. The Maryland Chapter of U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC-MD) honored the award winners at a ceremony at the Thames Street Wharf in Baltimore.

University of Cambridge School of Architecture and internationally renowned award-winning architect will discuss high performance masonry buildings in climates around the world.

ROCKVILLE, MD—November 9, 2010—Attendees at this year’s BrickStainable Design Competition Awards Ceremony will be treated to a presentation by Cambridge University’s Alan Short. The ceremony will be held at the National Building Museum on March 31, 2011.

BrickStainable Competition Boasts 205 Registrations from 45 Countries as Deadline Approaches

ROCKVILLE, MD- October 21, 2010 – The 2nd Annual BrickStainable International Design Competition has attracted teams from 45 different countries to take on the challenge of designing a sustainable net-zero structure using brick as the primary building material.

Four of the field’s top minds will judge entries

ROCKVILLE, MD—August 23, 2010—Vivian Loftness of Carnegie Mellon, Martin Vachon of AXIM Concrete Technologies, Bill Browning of Terrapin Bright Green, and Anna Dyson of Center for Architecture Science and Ecology will judge the entries in this year’s BrickStainable Design Competition.

Architects, engineers and design professionals around the world compete to design a net zero building using brick as the primary material.

ROCKVILLE, MD—July 15, 2010— Teams of architects, engineers, material scientists, landscape architects, ecologists, students and others have another opportunity to design an sustainable building using clay brick as the primary material for BrickStainable Design Competition.  Thanks to the success of the inaugural BrickStainable 2009 competition, Potomac Valley Brick will hold the competition once again this year.

April 28, 2010 – Rockville, MD

The 2009 BrickStainable Competition was a great inaugural competition in pursuit of design solutions that exploit the unique properties of brick masonry construction as well as seeking new ideas in the development of this age old building material.

January 27, 2010 – Rockville, MD

Hoping to unearth innovative ideas to showcase brick in sustainable new design uses, Potomac Valley Brick (PVB) launched its first international sustainable architectural design competition. With an overwhelming response, 95 entries from 17 countries around the world were submitted.

Dec 23, 2009 - Rockville, MD

Hoping to unearth innovative ideas to showcase brick in sustainable new design uses, Potomac Valley Brick (PVB) launched its first international sustainable architectural design competition. With an overwhelming response, 95 entries from over 17 countries around the world were submitted.

October 9, 2009 – Rockville, MD

Potomac Valley Brick (PVB) selected Bill Browning to deliver its keynote address during the “Brick-Stainable” awards ceremony to be held at the National Building Museum on January 27, 2010.

September 1, 2009 – Rockville, MD

Potomac Valley Brick (PVB) named four sustainable design academic and industry professionals to the “Brick-Stainable: Re-Thinking Brick” competition jury. “Brick-Stainable” asks a participant to design a net-zero energy building using clay masonry as the primary material.

May 27, 2009 – Rockville, MD

Hoping to unearth innovative ideas to showcase brick in sustainable new design uses, Potomac Valley Brick (PVB) announces a call for entries for a new international architectural green design competition.