LafargeHolcim Awards for Sustainable

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LafargeHolcim Awards for Sustainable

Construction

Awarded for

Country

Presented by

Reward(s)
First awarded

Projects and visions in sustainable

construction
International
LafargeHolcim Foundation for
Sustainable Construction
Total USD 2 million
2005

Official website

www.lafargeholcim-awards.org

The LafargeHolcim Awards is an international competition that seeks projects and visions
in sustainable construction irrespective of scale. A total of USD 2 million in prize money
is awarded in each three-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 LafargeHolcim Awards is conducted by the LafargeHolcim
Foundation for Sustainable Construction based in Switzerland.[2] Entries can only be made
online.[3]
The competition was known as the Holcim Awards from 2003. Holcim Ltd and Lafarge
S.A. completed their global merger and launched LafargeHolcim, a world leader in the
building materials industry, in July 2015. The name of the foundation was changed to
LafargeHolcim Foundation, and the competition became the LafargeHolcim Awards.[4]

Contents
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1 Regional and global phase

2 LafargeHolcim Awards (main) and Next Generation (student) categories

3 Evaluation criteria

4 Juries

5 Prizes

6 Global award winners

7 References

8 Sources

9 External links

Regional and global phase[edit]

The LafargeHolcim Awards competition opens with five regional LafargeHolcim Awards
competitions and is followed by the Global LafargeHolcim Awards. The regional
LafargeHolcim Awards are based on five geographic areas: Europe, North America, Latin

America, Africa Middle East, and Asia Pacific. Entries in the competition are allocated to a
region based on the location of the project.

LafargeHolcim Awards (main) and Next Generation

(student) categories[edit]
There are two categories within the competition:[5][6] The 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. The fifteen projects that receive LafargeHolcim
Awards Gold, Silver or Bronze in the five regions are then qualified for the competition for
the Global LafargeHolcim Awards.[7] The Next Generation category is open to project
visions of students in between the age of 18 and 30.

Evaluation criteria[edit]
Submissions in both categories are evaluated by independent juries, using five target
issues to define sustainable construction.[8] Three of these align with the triple bottom line
concept concept of balanced social, environmental and economic performance. The rest
cover contextual and aesthetic impact, and innovation and transferability.

Juries[edit]
The juries consist of independent, renowned representatives from science, business and
society.[9] The regional juries are supported by the respective "partner University".
Retrieved 8 April 2014. and the global jury is supported by the Academic Committee of the
LafargeHolcim Foundation.

Prizes[edit]
The total prize money for each cycle of the regional and global LafargeHolcim Awards
competitions is USD 2 million.[10]

Global award winners[edit]

Source: LafargeHolcim Foundation
Year

Gold
UVA de La Imaginacin
2015 water reservoirs, Medellin,
Colombia
2012 Secondary school, Gando
village, Burkina Faso

Silver
Community Library,
Ambepussa, Sri Lanka
Fbrica de Msica public
building, Groto, So

Bronze
The Dryline (Big U) flood
protection, New York City,
USA
Fussbad swimming pool,
Berlin, Germany

Paulo, Brazil
River remediation and urban Greenfield university
2009 development scheme, Fez, campus, Mekong Delta,
Morocco
Vietnam
Main Station, Stuttgart,
Germany and
2006 Urban Integration Project,
San Rafael-Unido, Caracas,
Venezuela

Rural community, Beijing,

China