Holcim Awards
The world’s most significant competition for sustainable design - showcasing projects that contribute to the transformation of the building sector.
Holcim Awards 2023 Announces Global Winners
The Holcim Awards 2023 winning projects and the teams behind them exemplify the growing global effort to provide holistic design and construction responses that advance multiple aspects of sustainable development.
On a mission to accelerate the global movement for sustainable construction
Founded in 2003, the Holcim Foundation was one of the first organizations to define and promote the key principles of sustainability for the built environment. Today, we are more committed than ever to ensuring that leading-edge thinking and best practice solutions are placed in the hands of everyone.
About the Holcim Foundation
Watch a 2-minute video about the Holcim Foundation - a non-profit organization, dedicated to accelerating the global movement for sustainable architecture, design and construction.
Learn more about Who we are and how we are organized to achieve our Our Vision for a future built environment in which both people and planet can thrive.
How we support systems change
The Holcim Foundation aims to identify, discuss, and democratize the latest leading-edge thinking and best practice in sustainable construction from around the globe. We focus on three main objectives as an organization to achieve this mission:
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Insights
We spark, interrogate, and promote the most important solutions that accelerate the transition to sustainable construction
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Learning
We support blue-sky thinking and practical knowledge sharing that is critical to transform the way the construction sector designs and builds
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Recognition
We conduct the international Holcim Awards competition to build a pipeline of innovative approaches to design and construction
Latest news and media
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Green Campus Blueprints: Crafting Net-Zero Architecture
Holcim Awards Webinars look at sustainable design on campus with winners from Singapore and the USA
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BRAC University unveils ground-breaking sustainable campus
Holcim Awards winning project delivers urban renewal in the city of Dhaka
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Guardian of the built and unbuilt – Brinda Somaya, SNK
The delicate balance between heritage and innovation, and the nuances of urban and rural development