Lifetime Achievement
Emerging Sustainable Architect / Designer
Women in Sustainability
Commercial Architecture (Large)
Commercial Architecture (Small)
Education & Research
Urban & Landscape
Multiple Dwelling
Single Dwelling (New)
Single Dwelling (Alteration)
Prefab & Modular
Best Adaptive Reuse
Best of the Best
A person who has over their career, shown exemplary efforts in advancing the progression of the sustainable built environment in Australia.
The Lifetime Achievement Award is open to an individual, design firm or building products company and presented in recognition of outstanding leadership and contribution to the field of sustainability for more than 20 years. This may be a new product innovation, new knowledge, or new ways to improve a design that has been deemed to be above and beyond the everyday with a long lasting impact in the built sector.
Candidates will be asked to demonstrate:
The most exciting sustainable architect/designer over the past 12 months who has influenced and changed the world of design by their drive for the environment.
Candidates will be asked to demonstrate:
The most exciting talent in sustainable architecture & design over the past 2 years.
This is open to architects, designers, engineers and even students who have influenced and / or added to the world of design by their ideas, innovations and concepts.
There is no age limit for nominees, but they must demonstrate that they have at least 2 years’ experience in the built environment industry.
The nomination must be supported by a person (female or male) working in the built environment industry.
Nominees or their sponsors must provide a response (up to 100 words) on each of the following criteria:
A Class 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 building used for professional and / or commercial purposes of over 500sqm in
floor size.
All projects and design firms located within Australia are eligible to enter. Outside of these preliminary requirements, the qualities and characteristics of nominations under the commercial building category include:
Key considerations: innovation, functionality, expertise, measurable sustainable qualities in the medium- to long-term.
To be eligible for this category your project must be located in Australia, and must have been completed between 1 January 2019 and 30 June 2020 .
A Class 5, 6, 7, 8 or 9 building used for professional and / or commercial purposes of under 500sqm
in floor size.
All projects and design firms located within Australia are eligible to enter. Outside of these preliminary requirements, the qualities and characteristics of nominations under the commercial building category include:
Key considerations: innovation, functionality, expertise, measurable sustainable qualities in the medium- to long-term.
To be eligible for this category your project must be located in Australia, and must have been completed between 1 January 2019 and 30 June 2020 .
A childcare preschool, primary, secondary or tertiary educational facility and/or joint research facility in which an educational institution is the major partner.
All projects and architectural firms located within Australia are eligible. Outside of these preliminary requirements, the qualities and characteristics of nominations under the education & research category include:
Key considerations: brief, originality, immediate functionality and ongoing performance, sustainable materials and technologies, relevance to context, high levels of research, longevity of both building and sustainable outcomes.
To be eligible for this category your project must be located in Australia, and must have been completed between 1 January 2019 and 30 June 2020 .
A building or amenity design which primarily services, or is used, by the public (except educational & healthcare facilities) that adheres and promotes to the concepts of sustainability, renewability and regenerative design.
All projects and design firms located within Australia are eligible to enter. Outside of these preliminary requirements, the qualities and characteristics of nominations under the Urban & Landscape category include:
Key considerations: immediate functionality and ongoing performance, integrated sustainability aspects, long-term thinking, relevance to context, high levels of research, serviceability and public amenity.
To be eligible for this category your project must be located in Australia, and must have been completed between 1 January 2019 and 30 June 2020 .
The design of a new townhouse, duplex or residential complex that contains multiple residential dwellings. Projects nominated under this category must be classifiable as Class 2 buildings.
All projects and architectural firms located within Australia are eligible. Outside of these preliminary requirements, the qualities and characteristics of nominations under the multiple dwelling category include:
Key considerations: originality and innovation, liveability, functionality and performance, high levels of research, longevity, breadth of approach.
To be eligible for this category your project must be located in Australia, and must have been completed between 1 January 2019 and 30 June 2020 .
The design and construction of a single residential structure to which a Class 1a Building category is applicable.
All projects and architectural firms located within Australia are eligible. Outside of these preliminary requirements, the qualities and characteristics of nominations under the new single dwelling (new) category include:
Key considerations: response to client brief, originality and creativity in tackling challenges, high levels of liveability, long-lived and easily maintainable solutions, relevance to context, high levels of research.
To be eligible for this category your project must be located in Australia, and must have been completed between 1 January 2019 and 30 June 2020 .
Extensions of Class 1a building or alterations to 50 percent or more of a Class 1a building.
All projects and design firms located within Australia are eligible to enter. Outside of these preliminary requirements, the qualities and characteristics of nominations under the single dwelling (alteration) category include:
Key considerations: innovation and originality, response to client brief, high levels of liveability, long-lived and easily maintainable solutions, relevance to context, high levels of research, holistic view of sustainability measurements.
To be eligible for this category your project must be located in Australia, and must have been completed between 1 January 2019 and 30 June 2020 .
Recognises prefabricated modular architecture that can be produced more efficiently in order to create less waste with the outcome being sustainable residential and commercial projects.
All projects and design firms located within Australia are eligible to enter. Outside of these preliminary requirements, the qualities and characteristics of nominations under the Prefab & Modular category include:
Key considerations: innovation, functionality, expertise, measurable sustainable qualities in the medium-to long-term.
To be eligible for this category your project must be located in Australia, and must have been completed between 1 January 2019 and 30 June 2020 .
Recognises the adaptive reuse of a building that has minimal impact on the historical significance of the building and its setting, while also pursuing a design that is sympathetic to the building in order to give it a new purpose.
All projects and design firms located within Australia are eligible to enter. Outside of these preliminary requirements, the qualities and characteristics of nominations under the Best Adaptive Reuse category include:
Key considerations: innovation, functionality, expertise, measurable sustainable qualities in the medium- to long-term.
To be eligible for this category your project must be located in Australia, and must have been completed between 1 January 2019 and 30 June 2020 .
The Best of the Best is selected from among all the category winners on the basis of sustainable outcomes and aesthetics as well as innovative design principles. It is picked from the highest point scorer. *No finalists.
A building that uses smart design or a range of automated processes to automatically control the building’s operations in order to help improve asset reliability, performance, and energy use.
All projects in this category will provide a model for solving a range of current sustainable issues faced by our city, while providing a functional and serviceable amenity.
Projects submitted under the Smart Building category will demonstrate a strategy to building automation – with a particularly focus on innovative ways of approaching existing building automation challenges and their impact on sustainability. A demonstrable improvement to previous sustainability outcomes will need to be supported by data-related to building performance.
Key considerations: Automation technology, relevance to context, empathetic to user considerations, high levels of research into use of resources, translatable concepts.
To be eligible for this category your project must be located in Australia, and must have been completed between 1 January 2019 and 30 June 2020 .
A building product that is renewable, environmentally responsible and where the impact is considered over the entire lifetime of the product.
Key considerations: use of sustainable /green building materials, longevity, a holistic approach to sustainable (as demonstrated through materials etc.), relevance to context, empathetic to user considerations, high levels of research into use of resources, translatable concepts.
To be eligible for this category your project must be located in Australia, and must have been completed between 1 January 2019 and 30 June 2020 .
Covers any process in the environment that is designed to reduce or eliminate waste where possible; minimise waste where feasible; and reuse materials which might otherwise become waste. This Award is open to both commercialised solutions and designs as well as experimental or non-commercialised ones.
All projects and design firms located within Australia are eligible to enter. Outside of these preliminary requirements, the qualities and characteristics of nominations under the Waste Elimination category include:
Key considerations: innovation, functionality, expertise, measurable sustainable qualities in the medium-to long-term.
To be eligible for this category your project must be located in Australia, and must have been completed between 1 January 2019 and 30 June 2020 .