Jennifer Chandler

Copley Wolff Design Group (CWDG) announced that landscape designer Jennifer Chandler is now a LEED Accredited Professional. Ms. Chandler?EUR??,,????'???s accreditation brings the number of LEED AP staff at the firm to four. LEED Professional Accreditation distinguishes building professionals with the knowledge and skills to successfully steward the LEED certification process. LEED Accredited Professionals (LEED APs) have demonstrated a thorough understanding of green building practices and principles and the LEED Rating System.

Bridgelux, Inc., a U.S. lighting company and leading supplier of energy-saving light-emitting diode (LED)-based light sources announced the promotion of David Barnby to vice president of worldwide sales. Barnby will manage the company?EUR??,,????'???s worldwide sales team and distribution network. Based out of Paris, Barnby brings more than 20 years of experience managing and growing business opportunities within Europe for high-technology Silicon Valley companies.

 

Michael P. Medea

Garden Associates Landscape Architecture, Inc. is proud to announce Michael P. Medea, senior landscape architect, is now an accredited professional with the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System?EUR??,,????<LEED, developed by the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), provides a performance criteria and a rating system focused on environmentally sustainable construction and site development.

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, a subsidiary of OSRAM has signed a distribution agreement with Mouser Electronics, Inc. Mouser is a major electronic component distributor focused on the rapid introduction of new products and technologies to electronic design engineers. Mouser?EUR??,,????'???s initial stock of OSRAM products includes high-powered, mid-powered, and standard LEDs, as well as infrared and sensor products. OSRAM?EUR??,,????'???s Golden DRAGON Plus family is in stock and ready for same-day shipping. Additionally, Mouser is stocking the OSRAM 6-lead MULTILED that empowers designers to drive each LED chip within a package individually to create any desired color, including white.

Glackin Thomas Panzak, Inc. announced that Lisa Thomas, RLA, AICP, Chris Garrity, RLA, Erik Hetzel, AICP and Cathy Jan, CLA have been accredited by the U.S. Green Building Council as LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) as accredited professionals.

George A. Ostrowski

Nowak and Fraus Engineers is pleased to announce that George A. Ostrowski, J.R., RLA has been accredited by the U.S. Green Building Council as a LEED accredited professional. Mr. Ostrowski has been the manager of NFE?EUR??,,????'???s land planning and landscape architectural department since 2003.

Derck & Edson Associates, with offices in Lancaster County (Borough of Lititz) and Centre County (Bellefonte Boroughannounced that Darren A. Narber, RLA, PCH, has achieved LEED accreditation from the United States Green Building Council (USGBC), demonstrating proficiency in state-of-the-art environmental and sustainable design.

Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Director of the Graduate Urban Design Program at The City College of New York (CCNY), Michael Sorkin, was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He will be inducted into the Academy at an October 10 ceremony at its headquarters in Cambridge, Mass.

Andy Bowden

Andy Bowden, ASLA, principal of Land Concern was appointed by Governor Schwarzenegger to the Landscape Architects Technical Committee (LATC) and was elected chair at of the Committee that was recently held at Cal Poly SLO. Bowden is also the current trustee (3 year position) and immediate past president of the Southern California Chapter of the ASLA, the 2009 chair of Member Services for ASLA (National) and the 2009 president of the 50+ Housing Council of the Building Industry Association of Southern California (BIA/SC). Last year he was appointed by the Newport Beach City Council to serve on the City of Newport Beach City Hall and Park Master Plan Design Committee of which he continues to serve.

WilsonMiller is pleased to announce that Ivy M. Clinton, ASLA, recently earned her registration as a professional landscape architect from the Florida Board of Landscape Architecture. Having fulfilled the educational, professional, and testing requirements and completed the state?EUR??,,????'???s licensing process, she joins nine landscape architects at WilsonMiller who hold professional registration.

Architectural Area Lighting announced that M.J. Paul has been promoted to vice president, brand management. Previously, Paul was director of marketing for Kim Lighting and prior to that served as marketing communications manager for Prescolite. Architectural Area Lighting, Kim Lighting and Prescolite are all business units of Hubbell Lighting, Inc.

Dave Petrosky

Dave Petrosky, RLA, ALSA, owner of EZ-Plant Software, Inc. announced a new updated Version 7.0 For AutoCAD Landscape Design Software with new automatic labelling command; more tropical plants are included showing general hardiness zones, new mulch tally commands allow you to tabulate mulch volume areas hatched and already shown as perennials or groundcover on your planting plan, new EZ-To-Install features including accommodations for Visual Basic and Windows Vista just to name a few.

Tensar International Corporation, Inc., headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is a full-service provider of specialty products and engineering services and recently made changes within their organization. Katie Andrews will now be overseeing advertising, print & banner ads, editorials, directory listings and product showcases. Katie has been with Tensar for two years and has been an asset on all projects thus far.