Check out these Holcim Award Winners for North America announced in Montreal. The competition was held in 5 regions of the world on the Foundation for Sustainable Construction. There were almost 5000 projects from 90 countries that participated to encourage building constructions by keeping in mind technological, environmental, socio-economic, and cultural issues. Some of the projects are just unbelievable as they feature innovations that can be applied in homes and other buildings in order to contribute to today’s climate and energy challenges. Let’s see how helpful these next generation projects are going to be in reality.
Gold Award to New York City’s first carbon-neutral building
Silver Award for a self-contained day labor station in San Francisco
Freshwater lake restoration and research facility in Ontario wins Bronze Award
Source : Holcim Awards via Bustler
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