LEA-Architects  - News 2009

Nov 09
Lawrence Enyart, FAIA, LEED AP and LEA-Architects' Glendale Regional Public Safety Training Center (GRPSTC) Academic Building is featured on this months cover of the prestigious Fire Chief Magazine.  The 77 acre campus GRPSTC has won several awards including Fire Chiefs Top Gold Award for Design Excellence in 2009 and the Desert Peaks Maricopa Association of Government’s Award for Regional Excellence.  Special thanks to LEA staff members Randy Jones, RA and Lance Enyart, AIA, LEED AP.  DL Withers was the CMAR contractor for GRPSTC, and LEA’s client is the City of Glendale, AZ.  Many Thanks to all!
Nov 09
From Charlotte, NC in the National Design Awards competition: LEA – Architects won (2) two 2009 top Design Excellence Awards from FIERO, Fire Rescue Magazine, and the International Association of Fire Chiefs for the following projects:

Sedona Chapel Fire Station, Sedona, Arizona – On the Boards Category, Honor Design Excellence Award

Paradise Valley Fire Station 2, Paradise Valley, Arizona – Merit Design Excellence Award

Oct 09
15 October 2009: Groundbreaking Ceremony for the LEED certified Tolleson Fire Station. Mayor Gamez, City of Tolleson officials, Tolleson Fire Department and Lawrence Enyart, FAIA, LEED AP were present.
Oct 09

LEA received word from Fire Chief Magazine in Chicago, Illinois: LEA – Architects won (2) two 2009 top Gold Design Excellence Awards  for the following projects:

Forest Highlands Fire Station No. 25, Flagstaff, Arizona – Satellite  Category,  Top Award – Gold Design Excellence Award

Glendale Regional Public Safety Training Center (GRPSTC) Glendale, Arizona –Training Facility Category, Top Award – Gold Design Excellence Award

Sept 09

LEA Architects is very pleased and extremely proud to receive the ”LEED Platinum” rating for Downtown Scottsdale Fire Station No. 2! The Father and Son Architects, Larry Enyart, FAIA, LEED AP + Lance Enyart, AIA, LEED AP and TEAM LEA are honored to receive this rating.  Scottsdale Fire Station No. 2 represents the first Fire Station in the United States to achieve the top Platinum level of LEED Certification from the USGBC.

 

Construction Communications reports "from more than 2,500 nominated projects, Downtown Scottsdale Fire Station No. 2 – First Fire Station in the US to be LEED Platinum and designed by LEA – Architects,  Phoenix AZ, has been selected as a Green Building of America Award-winning project and will be featured in the upcoming special Real Estate & Construction Review- Southwest Green Success Stories edition. Each Green Building of America Success Story project is highlighted in a case study that intertwines the words of the project's owner/developer, consultants, architects and contractors to explain how the teams worked together to design and build one of the region's most important, innovative or unique new or renovated sustainable facilities."
Aug 09
22 August 2009: Groundbreaking Ceremony for Highlands 'Mountainaire' Fire Station No. 23 and celebration of The Highlands Fire District birthday.  Larry Enyart, FAIA, LEED AP, Lance Enyart, AIA, LEED AP, + Chief Jim Pond
Aug 09
Paradise Valley Fire Station No. 2 + Scottsdale Fire Station No. 2 are award winners for the Arizona Masonry Guild’s Eighteenth Annual Excellence in Masonry Architectural Awards
Aug 09
4 August 2009: Groundbreaking Ceremony at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport for Mesa Fire Station No. 215.  Lawrence Enyart, FAIA was a featured speaker along with Mesa Mayor Scott Smith, Gilbert Mayor Steve Berman and Queen Creek Mayor Art Sanders
Jul 09
Paradise Valley  Fire Station No. 1  was selected as a finalist for  Valley Forward's prestigious Environmental Excellence Awards program.  The project will be honored  on 12 September 2009 at the VF  Awards Gala. 
Apr 09
Panache City By Design Book Release: Three projects are published in Panache's - Phoenix City By Design - 2009: Glendale Regional Public Safety Training Center, Scottsdale Fire Station No. 2 and Phoenix Sky Harbor Center Station No. 16 
Mar 09
19 March 2009: Yuma County Library District  dedicates  Somerton Public Library.  Lawrence Enyart, FAIA was a key speaker.   
Feb 09
Jan 09
31 January 2009: Paradise Valley  dedicates its 2  newest Fire Stations No. 1 + 2. The stations feature multiple sustainable design elements and are the first stations for the town. 
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