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This award recognises a developer who has demonstrated excellence in a medium density development.

Projects must be predominantly residential including small lot housing, villas, town houses, terrace homes, row housing, and apartment buildings and may incorporate commercial / retail components.

• The winner of this award may have the opportunity to represent Victoria in the UDIA National Awards.
• You must hold a developer level UDIA Victoria membership in FY25 to enter your project into this category.
• Entrants must ensure judges are able to walk through a completed dwelling during the site visit ensuring all necessary arrangements for this to occur.

Projects eligible for this award must:

• have a dwelling density of a minimum of 30 dwellings per hectare
• – be between 2 and 5 storeys in height (inclusive)
• – be at practical completion.

Completion Criteria for UDIA Judging

To adequately judge an entry for the UDIA Awards Program, entrants must provide to the Judging Panel sufficient evidence of the completion of a significant part of the project.

For example, single stage projects must show 40% of the development completed and sold or available for sale. Multistage projects must have at least one full stage completed and sold or available for sale, and other stages under development.

• Each award category features its own mix of the criteria along with their explanations which can be found below.

Built Form and Architecture	30%
Planning and Integration	30%
Innovation	20%
Market Acceptance and Success	20%