The Energy Efficiency Awards have been created to reward Europe’s most
successful energy efficient building renovation and innovative construction
projects, both in residential and non-residential sectors
Every two years, Saint-Gobain ISOVER launches a competition among the
building professionals to encourage environmental-friendly construction
techniques with substantial energy savings and rewards creativity and expertise
through the EEAs. ISOVER welcomes the winners to join the ceremony that takes
place in a different European capital for each edition. This year’s Energy
Efficiency Awards ceremony was held in
Dublin, Ireland, on March 20th, 2014.
All expenses for this 24 hours celebration were paid including flight
tickets !
The luxurious Shelbourne 5* Hotel overlooking St. Stephen's Green Dublin was the Home of the international
Award Winners.
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| Archie O'Donnell, Zeno & Karen Winkens in the Gravity Bar |
All was well organized from the registration to the welcome lunch
buffet, architectural Dublin City tour to Departure to the Guinness Storehouse
for the evening ceremony. Through the Guinness history exhibition we made our
way to the roof top bar. The Gravity Bar was back drop for cocktails and of
course Guinness.
This event was a celebration of all Worldwide Saint-Gobain ISOVER Award Winners. There was no overall winner, just 39 winners from 19 countries.
The presentations were slick - Country mentioned with flag, photo of build with
name of project, name of winners, awards given, next please. Sile Seoige
was Master of Ceremonies.
The award is a lovely brass sculpture on glass base, I shall keep this
award next to my 2012 Residential Green Award.
A lovely dinner was followed by live music with plenty of dancing. Our
table had two sets of Bulgarian Winners. And our Winning team my wife Karen
@MizzWinkens, Archie@Beyondpassive, Chris @gr8developments and wife Vamessa @vanessaboconnor. Unfortunatly
the clients Francis @fclauson and Brigid @clausonb could not
make it.
At the end of the successful night all celebrants got a well produced full colour hard back book 127 pages with all winning projects and teams.
Thank you The ISOVER International Marketing team.
Especially Valérie Saint-Mleux who was very attentive and
welcoming.
