Participants may participate under any of the categories mentioned below, celebrating both realised excellence and visionary ideas.
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Built
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Unbuilt
Housing
Scalable housing (multi-unit or individual houses) with deep systems and material innovation, metrics for lifecycle performance, and community integration.
Institutional
Design a mixed-use, institutional, or civic building, school, healthcare, community, market or public, that addresses environmental concerns through regenerative solutions.
Infrastructure
Built infrastructure projects including transport hubs, public utilities, mobility systems, water or waste infrastructure, or other civic-scale interventions.
core categories
Sustainable Housing
This category recognises residential projects that embody the spirit of sustainability through design, materiality, and community impact.
Sustainable Institutional
This category celebrates exemplary non-residential projects, from educational and healthcare institutions to commercial and civic buildings that advance sustainability benchmarks through integrated design, construction, and operation.
Sustainable Infrastructure
This category honours infrastructure and mobility projects that strengthen urban resilience, reduce carbon emissions, and enhance inclusivity.
micro categories
Sustainability reveals itself not only in sweeping visions, but in the quiet precision of small, deliberate acts.
These categories invite submissions that embody inventive, real world responses from material innovation and energy management to water systems, adaptive reuse, low-impact construction, social inclusion, and design processes that reimagine everyday practice.
Adaptive Reuse & Multipurpose Use
Recognises the creative transformation of existing structures into new, purposeful spaces that extend their lifecycle and reduce environmental impact.
Resource Management Award
Honours projects that demonstrate exemplary stewardship of natural and built resources through innovative strategies for water, energy, material, and waste management.
Engineering & Technical Innovation Award
Celebrates innovation through engineering systems and design technologies that enhance sustainability.
Sustainability In Design Award
Rewards architectural excellence in passive and active design strategies that reduce environmental impact while enhancing comfort and usability.
Economic Sustainability Award
Rewards architectural excellence in passive and active design strategies that reduce environmental impact while enhancing comfort and usability.
Biodiversity Integration Award
Celebrates projects that preserve, restore, or regenerate ecosystems within or around the built environment.
Scalable Impact Award
Recognises scalable and replicable sustainability solutions, whether through modular systems, renewable integration, or adaptable construction methods that can influence the industry at large.
Biophilic Design Award
Recognises projects that enhance human well-being through the integration of nature in built environments.
Sustainable Construction Process Award
Acknowledges excellence in sustainable construction practices, including resource management, low-carbon execution, worker welfare, and process transparency.
webinar schedule
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Date: 22-Apr-26 |
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Date: 30-Apr-26 |
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Date: 15-May-26 |
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Date: 29-May-26 |
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Date: 5-Jun-26 |
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Date: 12-Jun-26 |
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Date: 19-Jun-26 |