Grants, Awards & Competitions

• Green Grants is available to property owners of privately owned commercial, industrial, institutional, or multi-family residential properties within Chattanooga City limits
• City staff will evaluate applications. Projects will be evaluated based on criteria listed in the Green Grants program outline 

Government and government-required projects are not eligible to participate in this program

• Each entry must come from an integrated design team consisting of at least two licensed professionals including a Professional Engineer and a Registered Landscape Architect
• One of these Professionals must be licensed within the Chattanooga MSA
• The inclusion of team members from urban planning, architecture, homebuilding and construction disciplines, including students, is strongly encouraged
• Individuals may not participate on more than one team competing on the same Design Challenge Site
• There are no limits on the number of individuals from a single firm that may participate in the competition as members of teams
• Teams with members who are based outside the Chattanooga area are welcome, but at least one member of each team must be a Chattanooga area-based design licensed professional

The Low Impact Development Design Challenge Competition was organized and administered by the Partnership between The City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga-Hamilton County Regional Planning Agency, green|spaces, The Lyndhurst Foundation, River City Company and Hamilton County Water Quality Program.

The decisions and opinions of the judges represent their professional viewpoints.

All prizes awarded at the discretion of the Partnership and all decisions are final. This competition is purely conceptual, and the selection of finalists or prize winners in no way indicates intent of the property owners or the City to implement the proposed schemes.

By entering the Competition, entrants agree in full to these Terms and Conditions.

The Partnership reserves the right to refuse any entry. All submissions were vetted for eligibility and strict adherence with all Competition Rules and Criteria as defined herein or in any competition brief (or similar). The City or Partners in the Design Challenge assumes no responsibility for postal, technical or natural conditions that prevent the receipt or judging of a competition submission, or any part thereof. Through participation in the Competition, entrant agrees to release, indemnify, defend, and hold harmless any party from any liability; any claim for damages, and/or suit for or by reason of said submission. All images must either be created by the team or sufficiently cited. Upon registering for this competition, all competitors agree to waive any and all claims against the City or Partners as a result of the competition.

By registering, the entrants transfer unlimited use for publication, exhibition and electronic posting of all entries to the Partnership. Any entrant may be asked to take part in publicity and promotional activities for the competition.By entering the competition, the entrant acknowledges and accepts that all aspects of any submission may be used for publicity purposes. The entrant may be invited to personally partake in publicity opportunities such as interviews put forward to the entrant by the Partnership. Each opportunity will be taken on merit and the entrant will have the right to decline any opportunity. All winning boards become the property of the Partnership.

1. Robert Goo, Environmental Protection Specialist at US EPA Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds, Washington DC

2. Dodd Galbreath, Founding Director and Assistant Professor at David Lipscomb University's Institute for Sustainable Practice (ISP)

3. Tisha Calabrese-Benton, TDEC Director, Division of Water Resources

4. Russell Moorehead, Chattanooga Office Manager at Barge Waggoner Sumner Cannon Engineering and Architectural Firm

5. Philip Grymes, Executive Director at Outdoor Chattanooga

6. Doug Stein, President at Stein Construction Co., Inc.

7. Linda Harris, Senior Watershed Representative at TVA (retired)

Presentations at this awards event were required to be no longer than 7 minutes long; so you had to come early and listen fast!

LID Design Teams focused their projects on conservation of natural resources, development of practical designs and incorporation of urban design and traditional neighborhood development. They will include LID and green infrastructure practices as the preferred method of managing stormwater, and comply with the new standards set forth by TDEC that go into effect December 2014. Specifically, Challenge entrants were asked to utilize the City of Chattanooga's stormwater management practices as a guide for their designs.

The competition was sponsored by the City of Chattanooga, Lyndhurst Foundation, River City Company, Regional Planning Agency, green|spaces, Hamilton County Water Quality Program and sponsored by AquaShield and Belgard.

Broad Street:
Winner: 1) W.M. Whitaker & Associates Landscape Architects | GeoSyntec | Garth Brown Designers: Submittal |Overviewl |Board|
2) Stantec Consulting Services: Submittal |Board|  |Overview|
3) LDA Engineering| Ross Fowler: Submittal |Board|

Cherokee Blvd:
Winner: 1) Arcadis: Submittal |Board| |Overview|
2) Farmer Morgan: Submittal: Submittal |Board| |Overview 1|  |Overview 2|
3) Ragan Smith | URS | Kennon | Calhoun Workshop: Submittal |Board|  |Overview|

Northgate Mall
Winner: 1) DH&W Architects | March Adams | Casey Neal Landscape Architects: Submittal |Board| |Overview|
2) Volkert | Neuhoff Taylor Architects: Submittal |Board|  |Overview|

Bonny Oaks
Winner: 1) Ragan Smith | URS | Kennon | Calhoun Workshop: Submittal |Board| |Overview|

There were also awards for the City's Low Impact Development/ Green Infrastructure Excellence Awards that night, which was sponsored by a grant from Tennessee Stormwater Association

Winners were:
1) The Crash Pad
2) Fairmount Avenue Townhomes
3) Jarnigan Medical Center

Other applicants were:
· 18 Market Street
· New Covenant Fellowship Church
· EPB
· Normal park Museum Magnet School
· Fairfield Inn and Suites