CMPBS’s Associate Principal Dylan Siegler was quoted in the March 2009 issue of Health Facilities Management magazine. Dylan discussed the recent LEED platinum certification of the Dell Children’s Medical Center of Central Texas and the energy saving aspects of the new hospital. The article is available on the magazine’s website.

Christine Cox of Austin Woman Magazine featured Gail in the article “The Greening of America Started in Austin” in the March 2009 issue. The article discusses the formation of CMPBS, Gail’s role as chair of the USGBC and Gail and Pliny’s role in shaping green building in Austin and beyond. Copies of the magazine are available at distribution sites around Austin and online.

The Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI) announced today that CMPBS will advance to the final stage of the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge. CMPBS’s entry “Beyond the Petroleum Era: A Proto-Cooperative Means for Re-Mineralizing Coastal Regions” was selected as one of thirty three finalists. The team’s entry is a tool for developing crowdsourced solutions in a converged digital/physical space and proposes building systems for hurricane ravaged Galveston, Texas. The jury will announce the winner of the competition in mid-May 2009 and the finalist’s entries will be available on the Idea Index after that announcement.

This is the second year that CMPBS has competed in the Buckminster Fuller Challenge. Last year’s entry, BioMosaics, was selected as one of seventeen semi-finalists and can be viewed online on the 2008 Idea Index website.