GBS Awards Contest rules

Green Building Solutions Awards 2014, to reward innovation in sustainable buildings

Innovation became essential in the struggle for energy savings and to reduce the human impact on the planet. Building sustainable cities requires new solutions for true energy performance and environmental quality. Building materials, systems and processes, energy management... all those fields saw innovations emerge for a more sustainable way of building, for inhabitants, for users, for economic actors.
The Green Building Solutions Awards are meant to put those exemplary buildings on display, to highlight their efficient and reproducible solutions across Europe and beyond, and to reward the best of them.

The contest is composed of 4 categories:

  • Energy efficiency management (including energy efficiency devices, energy centralized management, lighting, HVAC, renewable energy production systems…)
  • Building systems and materials (building structure, insulation, joinery, …)
  • Innovative processes (in design, project or works management, users involvement, financial package,..)
  • Efficient green buildings

To enter the contest, the professionals must:

  • submit one or several exemplary buildings in the Construction21 case studies database
  • present at least one innovative solution in the "products" section of the case study. There they can explain how the solution they chose, benefit to the global performance of their building and more, how it contributes to developing a more sustainable city.


I. Rules

  • As buildings for the contest are admitted: all existing urban types of buildings, either new buildings or refurbished existing buildings
  • The submitter needs the rights to register the building to the contest
  • The submitter needs to own the picture copyrights for the provided pictures
  • The submitter has the right to make use of the prize or award.
  • The submitter is asked to describe in a running text his building(s) presented to the contest as well as the chosen product(s)/solution(s)/system(s). In the product section, the submitter needs to explain the benefits brought by their innovative solutions to the global performance of the building.
  • To be eligible to the contest, each presented building must highlight at least one innovative product/solution/system in the "products" section.
  • At least 3 pictures of the building must be submitted
  • The mandatory fields of the input mask of Construction21 have to be filled in to the best of knowledge and belief of the submitter
  • Only buildings with completely filled in mandatory fields can take part in the contest
  • The winners are determined on the basis of positive votes (Like’s)


II. Timeline

  • The buildings can be submitted from 14.01.2014 to 21.02.2014 28.02.2014 (deadline has been extended) as case studies online on www.Construction21.eu . after the end of the contest, they will remain on the Construction21 website.
  • The first voting round takes place from 01.03.2014 to 16.03.2014 17.03.2014 at midnight. Those votes will determine 8 national selections of finalists (France, Italy, Spain, Romania, Belgium, Germany, Lituania and Luxemburg)
  • The positive votes will be counted cumulated (positive votes on the National platform on which the building has been submitted + positive votes of the European platform)
  • Each voter can vote for one building and one product only.
  • The finalists will be contacted on 18.03.2014 by email
  • On 19.03.2014, the finalists will be announced at the EcoBat fair in Paris
  • Once the finalists announced, the selected buildings will be submitted to the international vote by members of the Construction21 Europe site.
  • International votes will close on 03.04.2014, results will be announced to the winners on 04.04.2014 by phone.
  • Official announcement of the winners will take place in Hanover for the Metropolitan Solutions Fair on 10.04.2014.


III. Visibility

  • The buildings presented to the contest will be displayed and highlighted on their national Construction21 site and translated in english for the Construction21 Europe website, as well as on Construction21's media partners.
  • Every submitted building will benefit from the communication and press campaign led by Construction21 to spread the word about the contest, the running buildings and to call to vote.
  • The contest will benefit of Ecobat and Metropolitan Solutions fairs' media coverage in march and april 2014.
  • The winners will receive a certificate testifying the high quality of their building and the solutions they chose.

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