Submission Deadline: 23 March 2011
The 3rd International Holcim Awards competition offering a total of USD 2
million in prize money is open to: sustainable building and civil engineering
works; landscape, urban design and infrastructure projects; and materials,
products and construction technologies. The Awards are an initiative of the
Swiss-based Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction.
Entries must be submitted online at
www.holcimawards.org
by 23 March 2011. The competition celebrates innovative, future-oriented and
tangible projects and visions from around the globe and is open to anyone
involved with approaches that contribute towards a more sustainable built
environment. The 3rd International Holcim Awards competition is comprised of
five regional competitions in 2010/11 and the global phase in 2012. Step-by-step
instructions on how to enter the competition are available at:
www.holcimawards.org/guides.
Holcim Awards (main) and “Next Generation” (student) categories
The main category of the competition is open to architects, planners, engineers,
project owners, builders and construction firms that showcase sustainable
responses to technological, environmental, socioeconomic and cultural issues
with contemporary building and construction. Projects are eligible for the
competition if they have reached an advanced stage of design. Construction (or
commercial production in the case of materials, products and construction
technologies) must not have started before July 1, 2010. In addition, the Holcim
Awards seeks visions and ideas for the “Next Generation” category, open to
student projects created within university programs at final year bachelor level
or above (including master’s and PhD).
Measuring up to “target issues” for sustainable construction
Submissions in both categories are evaluated by independent juries, using five “target
issues” to define sustainable construction. Three of these align with the triple
bottom line concept of balanced social, environmental and economic performance.
The rest cover contextual and aesthetic impact, and innovation and
transferability. For further details see:
www.holcimawards.org/target.
Internationally renowned architects and academics in juries
The juries in the five competition regions include experts in sustainable
construction, such as Angelo Bucci (Brazil), Raymond J. Cole (Canada), Wowo Ding
(China), Harry Gugger (Switzerland), Bjarke Ingels (Denmark), Sheila Kennedy
(USA), Ashok B. Lall (India), Winy Maas (Netherlands), Jürgen Mayer H.
(Germany), Mohsen Mostafavi (USA), Amer Moustafa (UAE), Lucy Musgrave (UK),
Olivia la O’ Castillo (Philippines), Joe Osae-Addo (Ghana), Michel Rojkind
(Mexico), Hashim Sarkis (Lebanon), Bruno Stagno (Costa Rica), Gunawan Tjahjono (Indonesia).
A full list of jury members is available at:
www.holcimawards.org/jury.
Support by world-renowned technical universities
The Holcim Awards competitions are conducted in partnership with some of the
world’s leading technical universities. The Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (ETH Zurich) leads the Technical Competence Center of the Holcim
Foundation. Other partner universities which host the independent competition
juries are: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA;
the Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA) in Mexico City, Mexico; l’École Supérieure
d’Architecture de Casablanca (EAC) in Morocco, and Tongji University (TJU) in
Shanghai, China. The Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil, and the University
of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, South Africa, are associated
universities of the Holcim Foundation.
100 prize winning projects in the first two competitions
In the 2nd Holcim Awards competition 2008/2009, almost 5000 projects from 120
countries were submitted. The 52 prize-winning projects included the global
winners: Holcim Awards Gold – River remediation and urban development scheme,
Fez, Morocco. Silver – Low-impact greenfield university campus, Ho Chi Minh
City, Vietnam. Bronze – Sustainable planning for a rural community, Beijing,
China. “Innovation” prize – Self-contained day labor station, San Francisco,
USA. Details about the 100 prize-winning projects from both the 1st and 2nd
competition cycles are available at:
www.holcimawards.org.
The Holcim Foundation is supported by Holcim Ltd and its Group companies in
around 70 countries and is independent of its commercial interests. Holcim is
one of the world’s leading suppliers of cement and aggregates as well as further
activities such as ready-mix concrete and asphalt including services. In 2009
the Group was confirmed as a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index for
the seventh time in succession.
Further Information:
Holcim Foundation
for Sustainable Construction
Hagenholzstrasse 85
CH-8050 Zurich • Switzerland
Tel.: +41 58 858 8292
Fax: +41 58 858 8299
eMail: info@holcimawards.org
web: www.holcimawards.org
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