The Orange County and the Inland Empire chapter of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), an international nonprofit research and education organization that focuses on land use and real estate development, will host the Third Annual Orange County and Inland Empire Best of the Best (BoB) Awards. The BoB awards are presented to Orange County and Inland Empire businesses that excelled in sustainability building design and development.

The keynote speaker is Ed Mazria, Founder and CEO of Architecture 2030, a research organization that focuses on ways to incorporate building design standards that reduce energy consumption and the effects of a changing climate. He also developed the 2030 Challenge, a global strategy for significantly reducing energy use, which will thereby greatly reduce greenhouse gases, by 2030. In addition, Mazria has written numerous books such as the The Passive Solar Energy Book.

Frucoe Engineering received the Urban Land Institute Orange County-Inland Empire's First Annual Best of the Best (BOB) Award for Community Development for its work on the Boy Scouts of America's Irvine Ranch Outdoor Education Center.

The 2013 Orange County-Inland Empire Nominees are:

· ABC Green Home

· CHERP—Community Home Energy Retrofit Project

· Emerson HOA Avocado Grove

· Greenest City In Orange County

· Irvine Ranch Water District -Energy and Green House Gas Master Plan

· Laguna Niguel Gateway Specific Plan

· Meridian Business Park

· Partnership for a Greener Northtown

· PDE Total Energy Solutions

· Santa Ana Station District Revitalization

· Terraces at Santiago

· TriPointe Homes – Lamb & Wardlow School Sites

· WRCOG Sustainability Framework

· Restoration, Recreation in Buck Gully

Event Details are as follows:

· What: ULI Orange County/Inland Empire’s Sustainable Communities Initiative Council’s Third Annual Best of the Best (BoB) Awards

· Why: To showcase projects, policies and programs in the Orange County and the Inland Empire that have shown exceptional vision and achievement in addressing the issue of sustainable communities

· When: April 18, 2013, 7:30 am to 10:30 am

· Where: Ford Motor Company, 3 Glen Bell Way, Irvine, CA, 92618, United States

· Organizer: ULI Orange County/Inland Empire

· Cost: $35 to $75 (full-time students, free)

· Registration: online (http://orangecounty.uli.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Registration_Form_81231308withfields.pdf) or (800) 321-5011

· Information: (714) 342-2965 or orangecounty@uli.org