For exemplary professional practice …

In 2010, NESEA launched the annual Professional Leadership Award, which is given to someone who demonstrates exemplary professional practice and exceptional humanity. Someone we can hold out to say, “Here is why NESEA exists!”

The recipient of this award is fully engaged with and embodies the ideals of the NESEA community:

• is regarded in his or her field as a leader whose ideas change how we think about and do our work
• is a whole systems thinker with a multidisciplinary approach to practice
• models methods of practice that we aspire to
• demonstrates the highest integrity and honesty
• is immensely generous in sharing his or her knowledge, skill, and experience
• is a person of great heart
• is a clear thinker and communicator
• has a profound curiosity that extends the boundaries of our shared knowledge

The award is announced in March at the BuildingEnergy Conference and Trade Show.

Thank you, Marc Rosenbaum!

The 2012 Professional Leadership Award recipient is lifetime NESEA Member Marc Rosenbaum, PE, of Energysmiths, where he uses an integrated systems design approach to help people create buildings and communities which connect us to the natural world, and support both personal and planetary health. He brings this vision, experience and commitment to a collaborative design process, with the goal of profoundly understanding the interconnections between people, place, and systems that generate the best solution for each unique project. Design practiced at its highest level goes beyond efficiency and conservation to create places that regenerate and nurture the natural world and all of its inhabitants.

Energysmiths was founded in 1979 on the principle that sustainable communities can only be based on renewable resources. Marc has focused on integrating renewable energy systems, daylighting, high performance envelope design, health-sustaining mechanical systems, food production and storage, ecological waste systems, efficient electrical and water systems, and benign, resource-efficient materials selection into his projects. Having realized that the barriers to high performance buildings and communities are neither technical nor economic, his work scope has expanded to assist clients design the process that is necessary to create these high performance projects.

Marc is also Director of Engineering at South Mountain Company.

“Marc Rosenbaum is simply the best building engineer on the planet, bar none.”

From Fred Unger, 2012 Distinguished Service Award Recipient, long-time NESEA Member:

“Marc Rosenbaum is simply the best building engineer on the planet, bar none. He has been the best teacher many of us in NESEA have had over the decades. The buildings he helps create are amazing models of quality, energy efficiency and sustainability. He has been a passionate advocate for NESEA and for searching out the truth and the reality in all the NESEA endeavors he has been engaged. There is nobody more truly deserving of this award.”