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| Holcim Awards competition goes global Following five regional competitions, 15 award-winning projects will now compete in the first global Holcim Awards competition for sustainable construction projects. The global Holcim Awards winners will be announced in Bangkok in April 2006. The global phase of the competition showcases the best entries from more than 1500 submissions from 118 countries, and encourages innovative, future-oriented and tangible approaches within the building and construction industry. As part of the three-year competition cycle with prize money totaling USD 2 million, all projects that received the gold, silver or bronze award in the five regional competitions automatically qualify for the global Holcim Awards. The 15 global Awards finalists are the three top projects selected by the juries in each of the regions: Europe, Asia Pacific, North America, Africa Middle East and Latin America. At five regional Awards ceremonies in September and October in Geneva, Beijing, Boston, Johannesburg and Rio de Janeiro a total of 31 Acknowledgement and Encouragement prizes were awarded in addition to gold, silver and bronze Awards and confirmed the rapidly growing interest in sustainable construction around the globe. The competition was created by the Swiss-based Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction in collaboration with five of the world’s leading technical universities: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland; Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Boston, USA; Tongji University (TJU), Shanghai, China; the University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil; and the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Johannesburg, South Africa. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Construction News :: home page |