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January 24, 2005

Rumsey Engineers Receives National Award for Global Ecology Center Project

Oakland, Calif.— Rumsey Engineers today announced that the company received an award from
Consulting-Specifying Engineer magazine for its work on the Carnegie Institution's Global Ecology Center. Rumsey was the lead consultant for the mechanical and plumbing engineering for the Global Ecology Center, located on the Stanford University campus in Northern California. The project received an Honorable Mention for its innovative plumbing design.

Completed in April 2004, the Global Ecology Center sets a new standard for green buildings, showing that an ecologically sound complex can be beautiful, economical, safe and efficient. The 11,000-square-foot, $5.5 million facility maximizes energy efficiency, minimizes waste, uses recycled material, and is an important step toward fulfilling the department's mission to develop the new science of global ecology.

The Consulting-Specifying Engineer ARC Awards competition recognizes unique building systems, use of new or unusual technologies, energy efficiency, systems and interdisciplinary integration, and innovative solutions to various project challenges. The magazine's editors cited the Global Ecology Center's creative use of water, particularly its Night Sky cooling system that uses a roof-spray system to radiate heat into the upper atmosphere. They also identified the Cool Tower, a specially designed structure that serves as an icon for the building and an evaporative cooler, as another outstanding feature.

"The Global Ecology Center's design embodies this organization‚s leadership in energy efficiency, flexibility, resource and water conservation," said company president Peter Rumsey. "We are pleased to be selected by a national engineering magazine for this truly innovative project."