Doug was the inaugural winner of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance’s BetterBricks award for architects, and McKibben + Cooper has won AIA design awards, Idaho Smart Growth awards, and the Idaho and northwest US Head Start corporate award for innovative Head Start facilities in Meridian and Garden City. Doug has designed many other sustainable and energy-conserving buildings, including one of Idaho’s five LEED certified buildings, the Barber Park Administration building.

To assist on the policy and regulatory side of sustainable community design, Doug has served as a Boise Planning and Zoning commissioner since 2004, and serves as the commission’s Design Review committee liaison. Currently he is working with these groups and the city council on a new comprehensive plan and downtown design guidelines for Boise. He is also a long time member of the Idaho Conservation League, National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Congress for New Urbanism, and the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy.

Doug and Sherry reduce their carbon footprint with a staff of three in their home / office in Boise, and have two children: Mac, an art major at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, and Julia, a budding singer and writer at Boise High School.