Awards Jury
wayne Turett
RA, LEED Green Associate:
Principal and Founder, The Turett Collaborative
Wayne Turett, founder and principal of The Turett Collaborative, leads a creative team with a design vision that has defined his work for nearly four decades. Turett plays an active role in all TTC design assignments and supervises the firm’s general operations. Engagement with the city and with his neighbors is a hallmark of his design work.
Turett started TTC in 1991 as a truly collaborative enterprise: a multi-disciplinary office that includes architecture and interior design, graphics, custom products, and furniture design. Early designs for corporate interiors and retail environments were widely published, garnering critical praise for their inventive and playful use of materials. Subsequent projects have included multi-family buildings, townhouses, single-family residences, restaurants, institutional spaces, churches, industrial designs, furnishings, and others. Recently, Turett embarked upon designing and building his own energy-efficient home to Passive House Standards, which is deemed one of the best paths to net zero.
Turett has degrees in Architecture from the University of Illinois and Pratt Institute and studied for a year at UP-3 in Versailles, France. He is an NCARB member, licensed to practice architecture in New York, and can work in New Jersey and Connecticut. As a recognized award-winning architect and designer, Turett has served as a design critic at the City College of New York, New Jersey Institute for Technology, Parsons and Pratt Institute; he has taught at NJIT, Parsons, and the Fashion Institute of Technology and has lectured at The Plan Architectural Conference, The United Nations, and various industry conferences. Turett has also served on several industry award jury panels, including the FRAME Design Awards and the Archiproducts Design Awards.
Having lived and worked in TriBeCa for more than thirty years, Turett’s local ties have naturally led to a special expertise in working with – and a special regard for – community and preservation groups. Much of his built work is in the immediate area where he has developed long-term relationships with clients, craftspeople, and neighbors.
Holley Henderson
LEED Fellow + Fitwell Ambassador + WELL AP
The Common Sense Enviromentalist
Speaker + Consultant + Author of Becoming a Green Building Professional
Recognized sustainability and green building expert, author, consultant and speaker – Holley Henderson is the Common Sense Environmentalist. She has been honored as a LEED Fellow, the green building industry’s most prestigious professional designation. This designation is based on her history of excellence within these dimensions of sustainability– advocacy, education, leadership, technical and commitment.
Prior to founding H2 Eco design, Holley was with tvs design for ten years where she began their green studio and later served as Interface’s Director of Creative Design. Both of these experiences provided her with a unique perspective into the needs of owners, manufacturers, and design firms relative to sustainability.
Holley brings a wealth of experience and knowledge of the LEED certification process. Providing executive quality control, she facilitated the certification of Interface Showroom and Offices, the first LEED-CI Platinum Level Project. Holley has led several other “firsts,” including the first LEED-CI project in China (Gold Level), and the first LEED project in Thailand, a manufacturing facility, both Interface buildings. Another original is the first Platinum Spa – Natural Body Spa & Shoppe in Atlanta, Georgia. Recently, H2 Eco design completed an over two-million-square-foot LEED-CS Platinum project for the largest energy provider in Thailand.
Holley was appointed to the National USGBC Market Advisory Committee where she served as Chair and represented this group on the National USGBC LEED Steering Committee. She is a charter member faculty for the National USGBC LEED Workshops and was a member of the core team who developed the original USGBC LEED-CI workshop curriculum, as well as, the advanced 300 level. Recently, the National USGBC introduced LEED v4 and selected Holley to present for both the online education and the first Greenbuild workshop.
chris keller
LEED AP ID+C
Principal | Design, Stantec Architecture
With over 25 years in the interior design industry, Chris has a passion for concept-based experiential design.
Having designed a large-scale and high-end corporate, legal, residential, and hospitality projects, he’s known for designing unique environments. How? By blurring the lines between market sectors to develop user-specific and innovative spaces that focus on a broader experiential quality.
As principal and design leader, Chris focuses on design excellence and ensures design quality and continuity from conceptual inception through to construction administration and post-occupancy evaluation