Design Corps picked a UW project in Peru, Comunidad Ecologica Saludable (Healthy Ecological Community), as one of six Public Interest Design Global winners. Applicants came from 28 countries. This is the sixth design award for the project headed by Assoc. Prof. Ben Spencer (Landscape Architecture), and Prof. Susan Bolton (Environmental and Forest Sciences) to create a green space in the desert community of Puente Piedra, Peru.

Other awards for this project include:

* 2013 EPA P3 Student Choice Award (voted the best project at the P3 Exhibition on the National Mall )

* 2013 Second Place ACSE (American Society of Civil Engineers) Sustainable Development Award

* 2012 Social Economic Environmental Design(SEED) Award for excellence in public interest design

* 2012 Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) Great Places Design Award

* 2012 American Society of Landscape Architects (ALSA) Community Service Honor Award