BuildGreenCT’s Green Building Impact Awards honor firms and teams whose design, engineering, construction, and consulting work raise the bar for sustainable design and construction, inspiring cross-industry collaboration to advance a sustainable built environment.

All project types and sectors are welcome:

• Adaptive Reuse
• New Construction
• Renovation / Addition
• Site / Landscape
• Historic Preservation
• Interiors

Each project will be judged with the criteria below. Weight is given to projects with documented performance data, innovative sustainable strategies or technologies, challenges overcome, and achievements.

• Inspirational leadership and exemplary performance in at least one area.
• Performance metrics, such as EUI or HERS, carbon emissions, post-occupancy data, community surveys, etc.
• Overall aesthetics and functionality of the project.
• Holistic application of sustainability in multiple measures (e.g. energy efficiency, water conservation, responsible materials use, site design and transport linkage, carbon reduction, biophilia, use of renewable energy, indoor air quality, resiliency, equity, and social justice).
• Process (e.g. community and stakeholder engagement, integrated design, sustainable motivations and evaluations).
• Certifications and awards attained.
• Completeness of application.
• Connection to BuildGreenCT’s mission and vision.

• Since the awards program has been on hiatus, this year’s program will have a longer look-back – 5 years. Project entries must be works that have achieved substantial completion as of January 2020.  Future award programs will have a three year look-back.
• Project entries must be works that have achieved completion as of January 2020 (5 year look-back).
• Projects must be located in CT, or alternatively, must be designed/built by a CT resident (living within CT borders) or firm providing services for the project completed by their CT office.
• Submitters can be architects, builders, engineers, owners, developers, consultants, etc.
• Firms may submit more than one project for consideration; each project submitted shall be entered individually.

Eligibility:

• Entries must have been completed while the student(s) was enrolled in school, and no earlier than the Fall 2024 semester.
• Student must be a Connecticut resident or attending an accredited High School or College in Connecticut.
• The submitted project may either be part of an assignment or extra-curricular work.

Registration Fee:
$40 per entry

• An additional $25 fee will be applied to each student design entry to cover the cost of producing the display board for the Project Showcase Preview.

The Trailblazer Award recognizes efforts to transform or promote intelligent stewardship of our resources that have a unique and lasting impact on the welfare of the public and the environment.

Eligibility:

• Trailblazer candidates may be nominated by others or themselves.
• Nomination can be an individual, organization, government entity, company, or a community.
• Nominee must reside and/or work in Connecticut.

Registration Fee:
$50 per entry

The Judy Swann Green Advocate Award is awarded to an individual or organization who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to practicing and promoting sustainability in Connecticut, by making major or longstanding contributions to the sustainability field in Connecticut through education, advocacy, and /or civic engagement.

Eligibility:

• Green Advocate candidates must be nominated by others.
• Nomination can be an individual, organization, government entity, or a community.
• Nominees must reside and/or work in Connecticut.

Registration Fee:
N/A