Plans for the building were spearheaded by Cardinal O'Connor and the late Msgr. Jeremiah Monahan, chancellor of the archdiocese.
The campaign to green the construction industry has been spearheaded by Building magazine, which has been trying to persuade the government of the merits of environmentally sustainable building.
She was the second woman to hold this position; her mother was the first, in 1973, having spearheaded the building of the museum's Brown Pavilion, which was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and opened in 1974.
The jeweler and longtime Bali resident John Hardy spearheaded the building of the Green School, a campus made largely from bamboo, as well as the nearby Green Village, a community of cutting-edge bamboo houses.
She, and her late husband Henry, spearheaded the building of the Minskoff Cultural Center and the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Park East Day School, where gifted students receive a well rounded education.
The other half will go to Dr. Riccardo Giacconi, 71, who as a researcher in the 1960's and 70's spearheaded the building of satellites and rockets that found X-rays ricocheting around the universe from black holes, exploding stars and searingly hot gas in intergalactic space.
As Chair of CB 1, she spearheaded the building of 3 new public schools in her district, including New York's first "green" school, PS 276.
He chaired this committee and that committee, spearheaded a building program for his church, led the local Retired Men's Association and went on two mission trips to Guatemala where the locals lovingly called him "El Viejo".
In Wilton, the community where he and his wife, Frances Kessler Dibner, resided for 53 years, he spearheaded and chaired the building of the Wilton High School, as well being chair and an active board member of the Norwalk Hospital.
Uber is currently building its own driverless car technology, spearheaded by a lab in Pittsburgh staffed with engineers poached from the nearby Carnegie Mellon University.
