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WELCOME TO EFA'S 2022
REMODEL/RENOVATION
COMPETITION
FFECTIVE SENIOR LIVING communities are challenging enough to build from the
ground up. But when an existing space is the chosen site for a project, it's no small
task to successfully transform it into a place where residents, staff, and visitors thrive.
On the following pages, you'll find three that did just that. Here in our 14th
annual EFA
Remodel/Renovation Competition, Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners are highlighted
for their project team's expertly delivered designs. You'll find narratives describing
the community's goals and how the resulting designs responded to those specific needs to take
dreary and/or inefficient spaces and breathe new life into them. Next, turn the page to view a
gallery of all projects submitted to the program this year. Many thanks go out to our jury members,
listed below, for taking the time to review the submissions to determine which rose to the
top. And congratulations to our winners! You'll have the opportunity to help us celebrate their
accomplishments next year during the EFA Magazine Awards Luncheon to be held at the 2023
Environments for Aging Conference + Expo taking place April 15-18 in Charlotte, N.C.-Jennifer
Kovacs Silvis, editor-in-chief
THANK YOU TO OUR 2022 REMODEL/RENOVATION COMPETITION JURY
Sharon Behan Breitinger, president, Navitect Consulting
Roger Beins, chief operating officer, Menno Haven Retirement Communities
Amy Carpenter, principal, SFCS Architects
Scott Courtney, senior healthcare planner, SSOE Inc.
Joan Devine, independent consultant
Jennifer Fleming, owner and principal, interior designer, Rice Fergus Miller Architecture
Leticia Fornataro, principal, architect, SWBR
Lorraine Hiatt, PhD, environmental gerontologist, ImprovAging Lifestyles and Design
Meghan Kolund, design director, Wegman Design Group
Libby Laguta, principal, L2D.Design LLC
Dinah Martin Kmetz, executive director, project management, Saint Therese
Alicia Nicolay, director of design, Spellman Brady & Company
Deborah Seitz, principal, Lenhardt Rodgers Architecture + Interiors
Tiffany Tello, healthcare administrator, Querencia at Barton Creek
Teresa Whittington, owner, operator, Teresa's House
About the submissions: The Remodel/Renovation Competition submissions come from across the U.S. and cover a variety of construction costs and project scopes. Every year, a multidisciplinary
panel of invited jurors from SAGE (Society for the Advancement of Gerontological Environments) reviews the submissions. The panel includes architects, interior designers, researchers,
academics, regulatory experts, and providers. Jurors view the submissions according to their areas of expertise, then rate the submissions and provide comments to help clarify the rationale
for the rating before selecting winners. Jurors are excluded from reviewing projects that they or their firms were involved with; jurors who are associated with projects in the finalist round are
not permitted to vote for winners. All participants pay a small entry fee and receive coverage of their project in the Remodel/Renovation Gallery (see page 42). The top three projects receive
expanded coverage on the pages that follow. All write-ups were provided directly by the submitting firms and were not edited for content by the Environments for Aging editorial staff.
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