The Houston Asian Chamber of Commerce has selected its 22nd Annual Awards winners: Keiji Asakura receives the Outstanding Professional Award! Keiji will be presented with his award at this year’s Gala, the theme, “The Spirit of Entrepreneurship.”
Meet Adam,
the newest member of the ARC family. At least, I think that’s Adam. It’s hard to tell but either way it’s a good representation of one of Adam’s passions: White Water Rafting!
Adam describes himself as curious by nature (just how long can he hold hisbreath underwater?), dependable (aka, skilled in resuscitation techniques), self-motivated (can paddle himself to safety even after everyone else falls overboard), and a problem solver (aka: “big water” enthusiast).
You probably won’t see Adam white water rafting down Buffalo Bayou, but you will find him knitting urban planning and landscape design solutions together at the ARC office. With Masters degrees from Auburn University in Community Planning and Landscape Architecture, Adam is the missing piece of the ARC puzzle. With a perspective from both angles he can see the advantages of the two disciplines within one project, and help ARC serve the client in the most efficient and meaningful way possible.
Welcome to the eight-man raft, Adam.
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Team Asakura (Keiji and Hayley), joined a huge group of fund-raising walkers to support The Woods Project, a non-profit organization that seeks to develop leadership capacity and life skills in low income youth through a series of outdoor education/environmental awareness programs at wilderness sites in the United States.
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Michelle Obama’s new book, America Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America, features the 611 Walker Container Gardens, known as City Gardens, instigated by Keiji Asakura.
“For years, the only thing outside the Bob Lanier Public Works Building in Houston, Texas, was concrete. That changed in June 2010, when landscape architect Keiji Asakura, Urban Harvest director Mark Bowen, and Laura Spanjian, Houston’s director of sustainability, joined together to establish a container garden in the heart of the city’s downtown.” See more in the image below…
Three great reasons to take the latest LEED Certified Building Tour:
1. Get up close and personal with our BIOSWALES and GREEN ROOF installations. 2. Meet the incredibly friendly and GREEN Federal Reserve Bank staff. 3. Learn about the amazing STEVE STELZER’s latest project at the City’s Green Building Resource Center!
Federal Reserve Bank LEED Certified Building Tour
As one in a series of free tours of green buildings in Houston, you are invited to see the LEED for Existing Buildings Gold Federal Reserve Bank, Houston Branch, on Friday, April 20, 2012, in an “open house style” guided tour approximately every 30 minutes from 11 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The Tour will take place at 1801 Allen Parkway, Houston, Texas 77019. Please visit www.houstontx.gov/mayor/leedtour.pdf for more details and a map.
Note! Due to bank security an RSVP is required no later than 24 hours before the event — 11 am, Thursday, April 19, 2012, or you will not be admitted on Friday. RSVP to Steve Stelzer at 832-394-9050 or e-mail at steve.stelzer@houstontx.gov. Green buildings save owners and users money with greater energy efficiency and more reuse of material. Ultimately, they foster a happier and healthier workplace for employees. We very much welcome your participation in this event and your interest and support for green building efforts across Houston.
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