David Whalen, Cleaning Services manager, and Sascha Jansz, Certification project planner
It's a problem that almost any academic can sympathize with: David Whalen couldn't get his project to fit the awards application.
The university's manager of buildings and grounds services was nominating the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy for a national TOBY Award (The Outstanding Building of the Year). But so many things didn't fit the application quite right.
The TOBY Awards were originally designed for office buildings, and Whalen was struggling to fit ECHA's coolest features-medical labs, robotics facilities, cutting-edge networking, efficient heating and cooling, several green roofs-into a staid, concrete box.
"That building is a technical dynamo!" says Whalen. "The degree of engineering required, you just don't have that in commercial buildings."
Since the project didn't fit the award application, maybe the award application should be changed to fit the project?
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