Circular Buildings 2024 Awards

Who can participate?

Any natural person or legal entity competent to represent the project submitted to the competition and in possession of the agreement of the project owner.

With what projects?

Accepted projects must be :

• located in France (metropolitan or overseas), Belgium, Canada, Switzerland or Luxembourg

• delivered no later than July 5, 2024

For the re-use trophies:

All types of public or private buildings, residential, tertiary, commercial, industrial, cultural, healthcare...

• With a surface area greater than 1000m² - or be a pilot project with a view to replicating it in a building stock

• Having integrated materials from re-use

• New or renovation projects

Infrastructure and landscaping

• Having integrated materials from re-use

• New or renovation projects

For the circular design trophy :

All types of public or private buildings, residential, tertiary, commercial, industrial, cultural, healthcare...

• New or refurbished

• Has integrated one or more of the 7 pillars of the circular economy into its design

What are the evaluation criteria?

* For the Private, Public, Infrastructure & Landscaping categories, projects will be evaluated according to 3 main criteria:

• Reuse :

  The project and its performance take into account the "materials life extension" component of the circular economy (selective deconstruction, reuse/recycling) and have achieved a high environmental impact (water consumption, waste production, CO2 emissions avoided).

• Reproducibility :

  The project and its performances are reproducible (on a regional scale, on a similar operation) or even generalizable (on the scale of all operations), this project opens the way to new trends, new ways of building/renovating, efforts have been made to share this experience in order to advance the profession.

• New practices and innovation :

  One of the elements of the project (a solution, the overall approach, a combination of solutions, a method, etc.) is new in relation to the state of the market, the implementation of this element represents risk-taking, and the project has enabled a major breakthrough.

* For the Circular Design category, projects will be evaluated on the 7 pillars of the circular economy. For each pillar, the jury will evaluate level of performance, reproducibility and innovation actions implemented :

• Responsible consumption

  The project has been designed to limit the social and environmental impact of the building at every stage of its life cycle.

• Economy of functionality

  The project has favored use over possession; the purchase over the sale of product-related services, rather than the purchase/sale of products.

• Extending the service life of materials

  : The project was designed to extend the useful life of the materials used.

• Industrial and Territorial Ecology

  : Le projet a participé à la mise en place d’un mode d’organisation permettant la mutualisation de besoins et l’échange de flux.

• Écoconception

  : The project has been designed with obsolescence and resource depletion in mind, as well as the entire life cycle of the building's components, in order to minimize its environmental impact.

• Sustainable procurement

  The project has been designed to use resources (materials, water, waste) as efficiently as possible.

• Recycling

  : The project used raw materials from waste and was designed to optimize and maximize the recycling of the waste produced.