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

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.

While there, Dr. Ron Dembo, CEO at Zerofootprint will announce the winners of the ZEROprize Re-Skinning Awards, in collaboration with the UN-Habitat and contributing to the World Urban Campaign. The Re-Skinning Awards celebrate and advance market-disrupting improvements in energy-saving building design and technology.

"We will need to retrofit our buildings in order to achieve a low carbon lifestyle in cities," said Dr. Dembo. "The Re-Skinning Awards were designed to stimulate innovation and to help drive this process forward."

Re-Skinning Awards candidates are existing buildings redesigned to bring their carbon, energy and water performance to sustainable levels while also improving their aesthetics and integrating smart technologies. Participants in the award include architects, engineers, developers and building owners who push the innovation boundaries of green retrofitting technologies.

On Wednesday, March 24th at 9:30am Dr. Dembo will announce the award winners at the World Urban Forum Business Caucus. Zerofootprint will also showcase a number of the Re-Skinning Awards entries and detail its sustainability initiatives in the exhibition hall at stand number E208.

The World Urban Forum brings together government leaders, ministers, mayors, diplomats, members of national, regional and international associations of local governments, non-governmental and community organizations, professionals, academics, and grassroots organizations in an ongoing partnership designed to make cities energy efficient, sustainable and enjoyable.

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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About Zerofootprint

Zerofootprint is a socially responsible enterprise whose mission is to apply technology, design, and risk management to the massive reduction of our environmental footprint. Zerofootprint operates both in the for-profit and charitable domains through two entities, Zerofootprint Software and the Zerofootprint Foundation.

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