GEORGIE & CHBA AWARDS
CHBA recognizes
achievement in sustainable
design, green
building and
more traditional
categories Canadian Design and Construction Report special feature
The growing interest in sustainable design and green build-
ing has resulted in new opportunities to recognize and cele-
brate innovators and projects making headlines.
Several of these achievements were recognized at the
twenty-fourth annual Canadian Home Builders’ Association of
British Columbia (CHBA BC)’s Georgie Awards and at CHBA’s
73 rd annual national conference in Kelowna.
“As submissions become more spectacular, the competition
intensifies: multi-million-dollar estates, soaring towers, tim-
bered vacation homes, dramatic landscaping,” CHBA BC said
in a statement. “Among this year’s highlights: an architecturally
stunning Italian palazzo overlooking a two-acre trout lake and
an 8,500 sq. ft. pond, multiple fountains recirculating rainwater,
on the site of a former gravel pit. Travelling through time to an-
other galaxy, a Stargate sculpture, part of a spaceship on the
show, with working gears and lights, has become the centre-
piece of an extraordinary wine display.”
Award eligibility is limited to companies or association com-
panies who are members of the association. Projects had to
be completed between January 2014 and September 2015.
The call for entries for the 2017 Georgies – for projects
completed between January 1, 2015 and September 30, 2016
will open in July.
The sold out event, which drew more than 600 members
and guests, took place in March at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in
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