Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction

The Holcim Awards is an international competition that seeks projects and visionary concepts in sustainable construction – irrespective of scale. A total of USD $1 million in prize money is awarded in each two-year cycle.[1] Eligible for entry are projects in: buildings and civil engineering works; landscape, urban design and infrastructure; and materials, products and construction technologies. The Holcim Awards is conducted by the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction based in Zurich, Switzerland.[2] Entries can only be made online.[3]

Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction
Awarded forProjects and visions in sustainable construction
CountryInternational
Presented byHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction
Reward(s)Total USD 1 million
First awarded2005
Websiteholcimfoundation.org/awards

The competition was known as the Holcim Awards from 2003. Holcim Ltd and Lafarge S.A. completed their global merger and launched LafargeHolcim in July 2015. The name of the foundation was changed to LafargeHolcim Foundation, and the competition became the LafargeHolcim Awards.[4] Once the group dropped Lafarge from its name, the Foundation also adopted the new naming.

A global phase through five regional competition

The Holcim Awards is a global competition awarded across five geographic areas: North America, Latin America, Middle East Africa, Asia Pacific, and Europe. Entries in the competition are allocated to a region based on the location of the project.

Holcim Awards main category

Since 2023, there is only one category within the competition:[5][6] The Holcim Awards main category of the competition is open to architects, planners, engineers, and project owners that showcase sustainable responses to technological, environmental, socioeconomic and cultural issues affective contemporary building and construction. Fifteen projects receive Holcim Awards Gold, Silver, or Bronze awards in the five regions.[7] Until the 6th cycle, the Next Generation category was open for students and young professionals not older than 30. The category was seeking visionary design concepts and bold ideas including design studio and research work.[8]

Evaluation criteria

Submissions in both categories are evaluated by independent juries, using the Foundation's "four goals" to define sustainable construction:[9]

  • Uplifting Places. Beautiful and spatially relevant structures that work in unison with the local context and culture
  • Healthy Planet. Structures that minimize resource use, avoid emissions, and embed solutions to repair ecosystems and restore biodiversity
  • Viable Economics. Financial planning that combines short term project feasibility with long term value creation
  • Thriving Communities. Inclusive and affordable living environments that cultivate equity, health and well-being

Juries

The independent juries consist of renowned experts from architecture, engineering, planning, and the construction industry.[10]

Prizes

The total prize money for each cycle of the Holcim Awards competition is US$1 million.[11]

Global Awards winning projects

Source:[12]

Year Gold Silver Bronze
2018 Publicly-accessible water retention and treatment complex, Mexico City, Mexico by Manuel Perló, Loreta Castro Reguera, Yvonne Labiaga, Elena Tudela, Víctor Luna, Fernando Gómez - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico; Oscar Torrentera - HUVA Consultoría; Julian Arroyo - D202, Mexico City, Mexico; Sara Sour - Virens Arquitectura Paisaje Ingeniería, Mexico City, Mexico; Gustavo Rojas - Área Común, Mexico City, Mexico; Néstor Rangel - Taller Capital, Mexico City, Mexico; José Antonio Poncelis and Jorge Compeán - GAIA, Los Angeles, USA; Alejandra Ramos - Mexico City, Mexico; Emilio Ponce - Mexico City, Mexico; Jetro Centeno - Mexico City, Mexico; Margarita Gorbea - Mexico City, Mexico; Oscar Díaz - Mexico City, Mexico; Lino Pau - Mexico City, Mexico Religious and secular complex, Dandaji, Niger by Mariam Kamara - atelier masomi, Niger; Yasaman Esmaili - studio chahar, Iran Community-driven neighborhood planning, Detroit, USA by Constance C. Bodurow, Eric Mahoney - studio[Ci], Detroit, USA; Will Bright, David Cross - It Starts at Home (IS@H), Detroit, USA; Darrel West - Detroit, USA; Donald Carpenter - Great Lakes Stormwater Management Institute, Southfield, USA; Mark Hagerty - Michigan Solar Solutions, Commerce, USA; Nathaniel Autrey - DTE Energy, Detroit, USA; Mark Drotar - Detroit, USA; Meaghan Markiewicz - Detroit, USA; Drew Bradford - Detroit, USA; Paige Spagnuolo - Detroit, USA; Ruiyi Liu - Detroit, USA; Amin Toghiani - Detroit, USA; Yochen Pan - Detroit, USA; Tim Miller - Detroit, USA; Yu Zhu - Detroit, USA; Brandi Patterson - Detroit, USA; Cory Benjamin - Detroit, USA; Drew Mittig - Detroit, USA; Fares Ahmed - Detroit, USA; Lina Alosachie - Detroit, USA; Karl Seidman - Detroit, USA; Leigh Carroll - Detroit, USA; Grant Williams - Detroit, USA; Sam Jung - Detroit, USA; Kelly Blynn - Detroit, USA; David Musselman - Detroit, USA
2015 UVA de La Imaginación water reservoirs, Medellin, Colombia by Mario Fernando Camargo Gómez and Luis Orlando Tombé Hurtado - Colectivo 720, Cali, Colombia Community Library, Ambepussa, Sri Lanka by Milinda Pathiraja and Ganga Ratnayake - Robust Architecture Workshop, Colombo, Sri Lanka The Dryline (Big U) flood protection, New York City, USA by Kai-Uwe Bergmann, Bjarke Ingels, Thomas Christoffersen, Daniel Kidd and Jeremy Siegel - BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group, New York, USA; Matthijs Bouw and Ivo de Jeu - One Architecture, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Laura Starr, Stephen Whitehouse, Andrea Parker and Melon Wedick - Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners, New York, USA; James Lima - James Lima Planning + Development, New York, USA; Steven Baumgartner - Buro Happold Engineering, New York City, USA; Byron Stigge - Level Agency for Infrastructure, New York, USA; - One Architecture, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Christina Kaunzinger - Green Shield Ecology, Bridgewater, USA; Edgar J. Westerhof - ARCADIS, USA; Daniel Payne - AEA Consulting, Beacon, USA; Prem Krishnamurthy - Project Projects, New York, NY, USA
2012 Secondary school, Gando village, Burkina Faso by Diébédo Francis Kéré - Kéré Architecture, Berlin, Germany Fábrica de Música public building, Grotão, São Paulo, Brazil by Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner - Urban-Think Tank (U-TT), São Paulo, Brazil Flussbad Berlin (Project), Berlin, Germany by Tim Edler and Jan Edler - realities: united, Berlin, Germany
2009 River remediation and urban development scheme, Fez, Morocco by Aziza Chaouni and Takako Tajima - Bureau EAST, Los Angeles, USA Greenfield university campus, Mekong Delta, Vietnam by Kazuhiro Kojima - Coelacanth and Associates C+A, Tokyo, Japan, Sanuki Daisuke - Daisuke Sanuki Architectural Design Office, Tokyo, Japan, and Vo Nghia - Vo Trong Nghia Co. Ltd, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Rural community, Beijing, China by Yue Zhang - Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Feng Ni - Beijing Municipal Commission of Urban Planning, Beijing, China and Lingbo Sun - Urbanenergy, Cambridge, MA, USA
2006 Main Station, Stuttgart, Germany by Christoph Ingenhoven - Ingenhoven und Partner Architekten, Düsseldorf, Germany and
Urban Integration Project, San Rafael-Unido, Caracas, Venezuela by Silvia Soonets, Isabel Pocaterra, Maria Pocaterra and Victor Gastier - Proyectos Arqui5, Caracas, Venezuela		 Waterpower, Mulini Valley, Italy by Luigi Centola - Centola & Associati, Salerno, Italy and Mariagiovanna Riitano - University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy Greening the Infrastructure at Benny Farm, Montreal, Canada by Daniel Pearl, Mark Poddubiuk and Bernard Olivier - L'OEUF (L'Office de L'Eclectisme Urbain et Fonctionnel), Montreal, Canada

References
  1. "Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction". Archived from the original on 29 October 2013. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  2. "Holcim Foundation". Retrieved 25 October 2013.
  3. "The 4th Edition of the Holcim Awards Now Open for Entries". Retrieved 25 October 2013.
  4. "The initiatives of the LafargeHolcim Foundation". LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction. LafargeHolcim Foundation. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  5. "Holcim Awards Categories". Retrieved 25 October 2013.
  6. "Awards Categories featured in Bustler.net". Retrieved 20 September 2010.
  7. "Global Holcim Awards winners 2012". 2 April 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2013.
  8. "LafargeHolcim Awards – Open for entries". Retrieved 11 June 2019.
  9. "Our Vision". Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction. Archived from the original on 16 January 2022. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
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