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2025 categories

 

PRODUCTS

Acoustics

 

Architectural Systems

 

Ceilings

 

Facade Systems

 

Flooring--Soft (Carpet)

 

Flooring--Hard 

 

Furniture--Office

 

Furniture--Outdoor

 

Furniture--Residential

 

Furniture--Other

 

Kitchen & Bath

 

Architectural Lighting

 

Decorative Lighting

 

Outdoor Lighting

 

Paint

 

Surfaces, Tiles, Materials

 

Textiles

 

Timber

 

Wallcoverings

 

Walls

 

Windows & Doors

 

 

PROJECTS

Civic

 

Cultural

 

Healthcare

 

Higher Education

 

K-12 Education

 

Hospitality

 

Infrastructure

 

Landscape

 

Mixed Use

 

Multi-Family

 

Pavillion or Installation

 

Retrofit or Repositioning

 

Showroom & Retail

 

Single Family

 

Unbuilt Projects

 

Workplace

 

Workplace Interiors

 

 

PEOPLE

Firm of the Year

This award recognizes one architecture and interior design firm for all-around leadership on design for sustainability, wellness, equity, and resilience. 

Rising Star 

This award recognizes early- and mid-career individuals who have made significant contributions to sustainable, equitable, healthy, and resilient design at their firms.

Sustainability Consultant

This award recognizes consultants who work with design or client teams to provide expertise on design for sustainability, health, and equity in order to achieve outstanding project outcomes.


Eligibility:

  • Sustainability consultants who work with architects or designers on design projects, or who work with corporations on their buildings or building portfolios. Consultancies must be headquartered in the US or Canada or have an office in those countries.

Sustainability Leader

This award recognizes an architecture, design, or sustainability leader who has had a significant influence on projects that make a positive impact in the world.


Eligibility:

  • Holds the title of director, associate, or higher.
  • Working in the United States or Canada

Sustainability Educator 

This award recognizes educators in architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture who nurture creative approaches to future challenges in the next generation of professionals.

Eligibility:

  • Undergraduate or graduate professors currently teaching in a college or university located in the US or Canada.
  • Professors teaching architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture classes.


INNOVATION 

Overall Decarbonization

This award recognizes projects that achieve extraordinary reductions in both operational and embodied carbon emissions.

Embodied Carbon Reduction

This award reconizes projects that achiece extraordinary reduction in embodied carbon emissions.

Innovation in Material and Product Use in Projects

This award recognizes products that employ innovative materials or use materials in new ways to make an overall positive impact.

Community Engagement

This award recognizes projects developed with in-depth community involvement and engagement

Social Impact

This award recognizes projects with extraordinary impact on communities, helping elevate their quality of life and generate new opportunities for them. 

Historical Preservation

This award recognizes extraordinary achievement in preserving a building of historic value while incorporating sustainable design strategies.

Impact on Health and Wellness

This award recognizes projects that make an extraordinary positive impact on the health and wellbeing of occupants and other stakeholder communities.

Design for Resilience

This award recognizes projects designed to continue to operate and make a positive impact despite sudden shocks through natural disasters, resource depletion, or other challenges.

Adaptive Reuse

This award recognizes extraordinary achievement in sustainable adaptive reuse of an existing building.

Manufacturer Corporate Sustainability Initiative

This award recognizes a product manufacturer for the architecture and design inustry for an impactful corporate sustainability initiative.

Research & Development

This award recognizes projects that incorporate vital research and development that helped amplify their positive impact.

Use of Biobased or Biogenic Materials

This award recognizes projects that employ biobased and biogenic materials in innovative ways to make a positive impact.

Circularity Iniative in Products

This award recognizes a product manufacturer for the architecture and design inustry for implementing innovative circularity strategies in the manufacturing and life of their products.

 

 

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