World Habitat Awards _ Deadline: 1-Nov-2011

The World Habitat Awards were established in 1985 by the Building and Social Housing Foundation as part of its contribution to the United Nations International Year of Shelter for the Homeless.

Two awards are given annually to projects from the global North as well as the South that provide practical and innovative solutions to current housing needs and problems. An award of £10,000 is presented to each of the two winners at the annual United Nations global celebration of World Habitat Day.

Who can enter

• Any individual, organisation or government who has an innovative and practical solution to housing needs and problems from any country of the world.
• More than one entry can be made by the same individual or organisation.
• Entries should relate to housing projects and processes that are either completed or in progress. Those that are at design stage only or in the very early stages of development cannot be considered.
• Previous entrants can re-submit in subsequent years providing that the project has been further developed in the intervening time period.

Entry procedure

The World Habitat Awards competition has a two-stage entry process: 

Stage I 

At Stage I, submissions should comprise a concise description of the key aspects of the project or approach, accompanied by images where possible. Full plans, costings and evaluation reports are not required at this stage, although may be supplied if you wish to do so (the main headings under which information should be supplied are set out on the entry form).

PLEASE NOTE THAT: All Stage I submissions received for the WHA 2010 competition have now been assessed and we notified everyone who made a submission at the beginning of December as to whether or not they were selected to submit further information to the second stage of the competition.

If you would like to submit to Stage I of the WHA 2011 competition, your submissions must be received by 1st November 2011.

 

All Stage I submissions may be submitted in English, Spanish or French.

Stage II

From the preliminary submissions received for the WHA 2010 competition, ten projects are selected by an Assessment Committee to go forward to Stage II of the competition.

At Stage II, submissions should include the following information:

1. A detailed description of the project or approach

• Aims and objectives of the project
• A description of the context of the project and the problems it is designed to overcome
• A full description of the project, including physical, social and financial aspects
• A statement detailing both the capital costs of establishing the project and the revenue costs, where appropriate, of running it
• A clear identification of the key innovative features of the project
• An assessment of the impact of the project and results achieved to date
• A statement of roles of the residents and different partners involved in the project
• Identification of the extent to which the approach used in the project has been transferred locally, nationally or internationally

2. An evaluation of the financial, social and environmental sustainability of the project

3. A statement on any barriers encountered in the project as well as lessons learned

All submissions should be accompanied by supporting plans and images.

The format of text, plans, diagrams and photographic presentation is entirely at the candidate’s discretion, subject to a size limit of A4 or slightly larger. 

Two copies of all Stage II submissions should be provided and should be submitted in English.

All Stage II submissions for the WHA 2010 competition must be received by 1st February 2011.

Terms and conditions

Whilst BSHF will not hold the copyright of any project submitted, it is understood and agreed that any project so submitted will be available for international exhibition, demonstration and publication without further permission or payment to the copyright holder. BSHF will only accept submissions on this understanding and agreement without further permission of the copyright holder and the prize, if won, will be made to the person submitting the entry in reliance upon such representation and warranty. BSHF cannot be involved in any negotiations regarding financial and copyright arrangements between the two parties. Where a submission of an existing project is made by a person or persons other than the holder of the copyright, the submission of such project shall imply a representation and warranty by such person that the holder of copyright consents to such submission upon terms that it will be available for international exhibition and demonstration and publication. 

Projects selected for Stage II submission will not necessarily be recognised as finalists. BSHF reserves the right not to make an award in the event of the judges deciding that none of the submissions received achieve the standard sought or adequately fulfill the criteria.

Click here to apply online!

Moreinfo: http://www.worldhabitatawards.org