Award Context

The purpose of the Zerofootprint Re-Skinning Awards is to stimulate market-disrupting improvements in the design and development of retrofitting and re-skinning technologies. These are the newly evolving technologies and building systems that improve the energy efficiency and livability of older buildings. Upgrading our existing inventory of energy-wasting buildings will help reinvent our cities while making them more livable.

The Re-Skinning Awards are offered to architects, engineers, developers, and building owners who push the innovation boundaries of green retrofitting technologies. Either individually or in teams, prize-winners are those people who create replicable solutions that take older, energy-inefficient buildings like apartment towers and commercial high-rises and implement design solutions that move them closer to net zero footprint performance.

Publicity

In March 2010, the first Re-Skinning Award winners were announced to the world’s press at the World Urban Forum in Rio de Janeiro. Click here to learn about our 2010 winners. To submit your entry or learn more about our competition ending in February 2011, please email us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).