Daniels Dean Emeritus George Baird and Professor Barry Sampson, along with partner Jon Neuert's, practice, Baird Sampson Neuert architects, have been announced as a winner of the 2011 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, Award of Excellence: Innovation in Architecture for the project Mission 2050. The 420,000 sq ft, net-zero research complex aims to establish a globally unprecedented integrated agri-ecology campus for dairy, poultry and swine research, technology development and innovation, and knowledge transfer that links the broad areas of agriculture, ecology and bio-engineering.

For more information, see RAIC and the 2050 Mission project.