UDIA Victoria Sustainability Award

This award recognises developments that demonstrate how environmental challenges have been overcome.

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Overview

This award recognises developments that demonstrate how environmental challenges have been overcome, and where research, innovation and design or construction techniques have enabled a significant and outstanding response to a need for conservation and environmental improvement.

Projects entered in the Sustainability Award must be sufficiently completed, submitted by a developer and should be able to demonstrate how significant environmental challenges have been overcome, and where research, innovation and design or construction techniques have enabled a significant and outstanding response to a need for conservation and environmental improvement.

The response to challenges may include a mix of environmental, social and financial outcomes or focus exclusively on social, economic or environmental achievements.

Important Information

  • The winner of this award may have the opportunity to represent Victoria in the UDIA National Awards.
  • Organisation must maintain a financial UDIA Victoria membership throughout the nomination process, judging, and the Awards for Excellence Ceremony
  • It is required that your project must be substantially developed by the time of judging or at least a component or stage of the project is substantially developed.
  • If you have a residential component to your project, the judging panel will need to be given access to the interior of at least one dwelling.

Completion Criteria for UDIA Judging

To ensure fair assessment, entrants must provide sufficient evidence demonstrating substantial project completion.

Single-stage projects must have at least 40% completed and either sold or available for sale.

Multi-stage projects must have at least one full stage completed and sold or available for sale, with additional stages under development.

Projects in this category should be essentially complete.

Enter the UDIA Awards

TO COMPLETE YOUR SUBMISSION IN THIS CATEGORY, YOU MUST ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING:

PART 1: Project Information

  • Key project information
  • Please provide a summary (max 100 words) highlighting the key features of the development with reference to the award category criteria. This summary may be used as the citation at the Awards Ceremony

PART 2: Supporting Materials

  • Project plans and maps
  • Press Releases and publicity requirements
  • 10 images of the project
  • Up to 10 Project Consultants
Environmental Excellence

Part 2: Category Criteria

  • Each award category features its own mix of the criteria along with their explanations which can be found below.
Sustainability60%
Innovation20%
Third Party Verification20%
View Criteria Explanations