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Environmental Works is looking for a new Executive Director - Environmental Works, a non-profit community design center, is seeking a motivated and qualified professional with a commitment to serving diverse, low income and special needs communities to become its new Executive Director. For more information, click here.

High Point Neighborhood House - December 17, 2007 A Neighborhood Center is developing in the High Point neighborhood in West Seattle.

Duvall Social Services breaks ground on June 6th, 2007, Hopelink and Friends of Youth join to provide services and housing in Duvall, Washington. See article for more information. Photos coming soon!

Residents began moving into Kateri Court on July 2007, forty more affordable homes became available in Bellingham.

environmental WORKS in the news. Tuesday, January 31, 2006 The Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper published "Meeting Basic Needs in Style" by Lawrence Cheek, hightlighting three EW projects that " despite the tight-fisted budgets, [are] buildings infused with details -- and sometimes big, dramatic spaces -- to delight their users." Neighborhood House - Rainier Vista, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Home, and Katharine's Place Family Housing are three examples of EW producing "buildings that make people feel good."

Neighborhood House - Rainier Vista
Rainier Vista began serving the public in Seattle's Rainier Vista redevelopment this summer with an Open House and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony on August 11, 2005. Please check it out.

Katharine's Place Family Housing Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony took place on September 9, 2005. The Archbishop of Seattle, Alexander Brunett, was presiding.

La Casa de la Familia Santa
Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony took place on September 8, 2005. The Archbishop of Seattle, Alexander Brunett, was presiding.

Katharine's Place Family Housing On March 17, the Katharine's Place Team won Seattle's Built Green™ 2005 Multi-Family Housing Design Competition. "Design competition project entries were judged on the total Built Green™ points achieved, support to the City's housing and environmental goals, and design excellence." Click here to read more in Seattle's Deparment of Planning and Development April 2005 newsletter. (Katharine's Place was previsiously known as Martin Luther King, Jr. Family Housing.)

Wing Luke Elementary School Child Care Center named the project of the month for March 2005 by the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce and the Seattle Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Read more in the Wednesday, March 9, 2005 addition of the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce.

Traugott Terrace: The first LEED™ Certified Affordable Housing Project in the U.S.   In December 2004, Traugott Terrace was awarded a LEED™ Certified rating from the US Green Building Council.  Click here to see a complete case study of the project.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Home opened in March 2004. Please see the finished project in our Childcare section.

The Evergreen State College Campus Children's Center opened in January 2004. Please see the finished project in our Childcare section.

Traugott Terrace receives BEST Award
The Traugott Terrace team was recognized at the May 2004 BEST Awards Ceremony as a co-winner of the Sustainable Building Award. The BEST (Businesses for an Environmentally Sustainable Tomorrow) Awards “celebrate notable “green” achievements by companies in the Greater Seattle area.” Project Architect, Bill Singer, Joe Thompson from the Archdiocesan Housing Authority, owner, and Heather Beaulieu of Rafn Company, contractor, were each presented with recycled glass plaques. Click here to see the full project description and other award winners at the Resource Venture website.

Traugott Terrace in the New York Times
In the May 6, 2004 article by Mokoto Rich, “Green Gets Real” Traugott Terrace is identified as an example of the sustainable design opportunities in affordable housing. The article highlights the project's focus on cost effective sustainable strategies and on the prioritization of those green strategies that provide the most benefit to the facility. Please visit the New York Times website to find an archived copy of the article. [Please note you will be asked to pay $2.95 to read the entire article.]