Green Awards – Hamstra a ‘Green Visionary’
Business Review West Michigan Recognized GMB Leader in Inaugural Awards
Steve Hamstra first became involved in the green building industry in 1975, when he constructed his first solar collector.
Influenced by his father, a residential heating and air-conditioning contractor whose company installed one of the first solar thermal collection systems in West Michigan, Hamstra focused his engineering studies on a similar track. He became a pioneer in the application of geothermal heat pump systems in the late 1970s.
Hamstra was the first engineer to achieve U.S. Green Building Council LEED AP accreditation. He also created the engineering design for Michigan’s first USGBC LEED Gold project. He has been recognized by the Association of Energy Engineers as Energy Engineer of the Year, and, in 2007, he received the organization’s Legend in Energy lifetime achievement award.
As executive vice president and director of sustainability at GMB Architecture + Engineering in Holland, Hamstra continues his dedication to sustainability.
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