The jury for region Latin America nominated projects to receive a total of USD 220,000 prize money at a meeting on July 7 to 9, 2005 at the University of São Paulo, Brazil:
- Vanderley M John(Head of Jury), Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil
- Marc Angélil, Professor of Urban Design, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Member of the Management Board and Member of the Technical Competence Center of the Holcim Foundation, Switzerland
- Carlos Bühler, CEO, Holcim (Brasil) S.A., Brazil
- John Martin Evans, Director, Research Center Habitat & Energy, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina
- Norman Goijberg, President, Green Building Chile, Chile
- Paula Gómez Ortega, Project Director, Fundación Urbana, Urban and Environmental Development, Argentina
- Roberto Lamberts, Professor of Civil Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil
- Felipe Leal Fernández, Director, Faculty of Architecture, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM), Mexico
- Enrique Norten, Principal, TEN Arquitectos, Mexico/USA
- Carlos Alberto Ricardo, Director, ISA - Instituto Socioambiental, Brazil
- Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, Professor of Planning and Management in Construction, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich); Member of the Management Board and Head of the Technical Competence Center of the Holcim Foundation, Switzerland
- Bruno Stagno, President, Bruno Stagno Architect y As., Costa Rica