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The Holcim Awards competition opens for entries

08 June 2007 15:29 (UTC +04:00)

The second Holcim Awards competition has been declared open for entries and the deadline is on February 29, 2008.
Entries in the contest can be submitted until February 29, 2008 at www.holcimawards.org. The competition celebrates innovative, future-oriented and tangible sustainable construction projects from around the globe and provides prize money of USD 2 million per three-year competition cycle.
In the first Holcim Awards competition for sustainable construction projects, over 3000 entries were submitted from 120 countries and USD 2.1 million in prize money was awarded to projects to be built in 21 countries. The book Sustainable construction â€“ Holcim Awards 2005/2006 provides an overview of the competition and the winning projects in a contemporary snapshot of the global state of sustainable construction. The five juries that assessed the entries in the initial phase of the competition, and the global jury that evaluated the final round are introduced and a taste given of the regional Awards ceremonies held in Beijing, Boston, Geneva, Johannesburg and Rio de Janeiro and the global gala in Bangkok. Detailed chapters of the book are dedicated to each of the four global winners; these behind-the-scene essays show the enthusiasm, care, and technical skill that dedicated teams put into their winning projects located in Canada, Germany, Italy and Venezuela.
The Holcim Foundation is supported by Holcim Ltd but is independent of its commercial interests. Holcim Ltd is one of the worldâ€™s leading suppliers of cement and aggregates (crushed stone, sand and gravel) as well as downstream activities such as ready-mix concrete and asphalt, including services. The Holcim Group holds majority and minority interests in more than 70 countries on all continents. /APA-Economics/