USD 220,000 in prize money was presented to the best submissions from Africa Middle East in the Holcim Awards competition for sustainable construction projects. The competition run by the Swiss Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction in collaboration with five of the world’s leading technical universities aims to promote sustainable approaches to the built environment.

The project is credited for its responsive approach to providing mixed-use development to accommodate the re-settlement of households displaced by the process of a slum settlement upgrade. Notable interventions of the project are the strategy of multi-level walk-ups to encourage density and efficiency, creative land-use, the harnessing of renewable energy, as well as the provisions proposed for water conservation.

This project is given merit for its approach to the resettlement of households displaced by a slum settlement upgrade. Notable in this proposal for mixed-use development is the strategy of multilevel walk-ups to encourage density and efficiency, creative land use, the harnessing of renewable energy, as well as the provisions proposed for water conservation.