General Info

Profile B+B is a full service green architecture, planning, preservation and development firm providing integrated services to private, non-profit and governmental clients. The firm also develops multifamily and mixed-use projects for its own account. The firm was founded in 1950 and has been directed by Bruce Redman Becker, AIA AICP (click for bio), since 1987. Programming, Space Planning and Interior Design Comprehensive Green Building Design and Architectural Services Historic Preservation and Adaptive Re-use Awards 2011 Business New Haven Magazine Businessperson of the Year award to Bruce Becker for his role developing the 360 State Street project. 2010 Smartie Award Conferred by 1000 Friends of Connecticut upon Bruce Becker his firm Becker Becker "our highest praise and gratitude in celebration of the opening of 360 State Street and in recognition of his bold, forward thinking efforts to bring transit-oriented, environmentally friendly, mixed-use development to downtown New Haven, Connecticut" 2010 Connecticut Fund for the Environment Annual Meeting Award "for incorporating innovative sustainable green design into your mixed use urban development project at 360 State Street and for advocating for policy solutions that support green sustainability" 2008 Engineering Excellence Award from the American Council of Engineering Companies of Connecticut for the Wauregan Hotel Restoration 2008 1000 Friends of Connecticut "Smart Growth" Endorsement for 360 State Street. Becker + Becker's plan for 360 State Street was one of only two projects statewide to be recognized by Connecticut's leading smart growth advocacy organization as a model for sustainable, livable and productive community development. 2008 The Connecticut Main Street Center Awards of Excellence to The Wauregan project for adaptive re-use of a building. 2007 The Christopher Leffingwell Award from the Society of the Founders of Norwich, "In recognition and appreciation of the firm's contribution to the beauty of Norwich with the restoration of Norwich's Wauregan Hotel"