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Zerofootprint to Unveil Winners of Re-Skinning Awards at World Urban Forum in Brazil

PR Newswire

TORONTO, March 16




TORONTO, March 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Zerofootprint, a leading organization in the global fight against climate change, today announced it is participating in the World Urban Forum 5 taking place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil March 22-26, 2010.
About the Re-Skinning Awards

The ZEROprize Re-Skinning Awards are intended to stimulate market-disrupting improvements in the design and development of retrofitting and re-skinning technologies that enhance the energy efficiency and liveability of older buildings. The award finalists are:

355 Eleventh (Aidlin Darling); GESOBAU AG (DAHM Architekten + Ingenieure); Brick Works (Du Toit Alsop Hillier, Diamond & Schmitt); Paris Docks (Jakob + MacFarlane); Tomamu Towers (Klein - Dytham); Hespeler Library (Kongats); Guelph Residence (Larkin); Sydney Tower (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture); 100 Park Ave (MOED de ARMAS & SHANNON); Now House (Work Worth Doing); West Park Court (Perfido Weiskopf Wagstaff + Goettel); Sparkasse Vorderpfalz (Thiemo Ebbert); University of Ulster (TODD); Nova Scotia Power (WZMH) and Sears Toronto (WZMH).

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