Academy Awards 2010 - International Sustainable Design

Lead Judge
Phil Nedin, UK



Criteria
Awarded for a completed healthcare project where issues of sustainability are achieved at a level conspicuously above the present mandatory norm and which set a new standard of attainment to satisfy legislative, technical, financial and moral imperatives. The award will only be made for exceptional solutions which must have been in full operation for a minimum of one year.

Download the entry form and submission statement here

Submissions must demonstrate:

• The use of whole life costing to reduce the reliance on lowest first cost
• Consideration of the impact of future clinical need to embed spatial and system flexibility
• A delivered carbon strategy
• The introduction of innovation from other sectors and evaluated within a healthcare context
• Examples of a design balance between the therapeutic environment and clinical efficiency