January 2015
| Business World
157
Metropolitan Arts Press – ZGF won two
awards for their work on the J. Craig Venter
Institute ( JCVI) in La Jolla, California and
the University of Oregon, Hatfield-Dowlin
Complex in Eugene.
Ted reiterates that the award is a welcome
“confirmation” that ZGF is doing a good job,
but again, the real reward is potentially mak-
ing a difference in peoples’ lives. The JCVI,
for example, is a world leader in genomics
research.
“The kinds of discoveries coming out of that
place are remarkable,” Ted says. “We worked
with two Nobel Prize winners in addition to
Craig Venter. Getting to work with people
who are changing the world, and creating a
building for them to support what they’re
trying to do – that’s incredible.”
One of the JCVI’s questsis to help solve two
of society’s most pressing issues – global
climate change and dependence on hydro-
carbons. To reflect that goal, they commis-
sioned the first carbon-neutral laboratory fa-
cility in the world, located on the University
of California, San Diegocampus.
