Best Practice Awards

LAST CALL - Sustainable Buildings Best Practice Awards

The Sustainable Building 04 Conference will provide a forum for exploring sustainability in buildings and construction in Africa.
It's one of 5 regional (Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, South East Asia, China, and Central / Eastern Europe) conferences leading up to a major sustainable building conference to be held in Tokyo in 2005.

As part of the conference, submissions are invited of sustainable buildings best practice.
It is envisaged that submissions will make a significant contribution to knowledge in this field by showing working examples and approaches.

Anyone involved in developing or managing buildings can submit a building or scheme. Incentives to submit examples include:

Media publicity and coverage at the SB’04 Conference
Award winners will receive support to attend the SB’05 conference in Tokyo.
This will include the cost of the conference fee and 4 night’s accommodation in Tokyo, Japan.

To submit best practice examples read below.

Submissions for the Best Practice Awards are free and do not require registration for the SB'04 Africa conference. There is no limit to the number of submissions. The only requirements are that submitted projects must have been completed in the 10 years preceeding 13 September 2004 and must be on the African continent or islands deemed as part of Africa (e.g. Madagascar and Mauritius). To submit, it is necessary to first REGISTER your interest. After you have registered, the browser will lead you to a page where further instructions can be downloaded. Before registering, please read the remainder of this page.

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 3 SEPTEMBER 2004

Background

One of the objectives of the SB'04 conferences is to establish a database of sustainable building that come from and are appropriate to developing countries. To encourage this, a number of awards will be made at the conference for projects that showcase a commitment to sustainable building. These Sustainable Building Best Practice Awards are also seen as a mechanism for raising awareness about sustainable building amongst practitioners in these countries. The projects that received awards will also be showcased at the Tokyo conference.

Submission of entries

All submissions have to be done electronically.

There are two parts to be completed.

The first is the completion of an electronic assessment form in Microsoft Excel.
The second is the preparation of a presentation in a prescribed electronic format using Microsoft Powerpoint.

Deadline for submission: 20 August 2004.

Please register online first before downloading the templates. This registration does not commit you financially to attending the conference, or to submit a project.

Entries under 2 Megabytes can be emailed to: conferences@csir.co.za

Entries larger than 2 Megabytes can be recorded on CD-ROM and mailed to:

Jeremy Gibberd
CSIR Building and Construction Technologies
PO Box 395
Pretoria
0001
South Africa

Unfortunately we cannot accept entries in any other format. Should you have any problems using these programmes or format, or advice on reducing the size of your presentations, please feel free to contact us.

Proposed assessment method

The projects will be assessed using a version of the Sustainable Building Assessment Tool (SBAT) developed by the CSIR. The SBAT has been designed to be aligned to the WSSD objectives and respond to developing country contexts. The version of the tool enables an outline assessment of sustainable building performance to be made. It also provides an opportunity for participants to include detailed performance data on the buildings. Where possible, protocols and units for this data should be aligned with the green building assessment methodology (see http://greenbuilding.ca).

Projects will be assessed according a number of indicators under the following criteria:

Social

Occupant Comfort
Inclusive Environments
Access to Facilities
Participation and Control
Education, Health and Safety

Economic

Local Economy
Efficiency of Use
Adaptability and Flexibility
Ongoing Costs
Capital Costs

Environmental

Water
Energy
Recycling and Reuse
Site and Landscaping
Materials and Components

Adjudication

The adjudication of the awards will be coordinated by the South African Institute of Architects, with assistance of the CSIR. The adjudicators will be announced shortly.

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