On September 18 the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction announced the winners for the North American segment of its international awards program at a ceremony held at Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto. Over the course of the evening, which was enlivened by an unseasonable cold snap that pervaded the largely open-air venue (a community environmental center that won a Holcim award in 2008), 13 projects were recognized and a total of $330,000 in prize money was awarded.
Selected from 211 “formally correct” entries, winners were awarded gold, silver, and bronze, as well as four acknowledgements, and six “Next Generation” prizes for young professionals and students. The projects were wide in range, from an air-purification wall to an affordable infill housing project in Boston to a scheme for urban flood protection infrastructure. The gold, silver, and bronze winners will be contenders for Holcim’s global awards, vying for the prizes along with the winners from four other regions: Europe, Latin America, Africa Middle East, and Asia Pacific.
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