ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL WINNERS OF HOLCIM AWARDS 2014 (BRONZE)
Sri Lanka Sinha Regiment won the Bronze award for Echo Friendly Digital Library which is an ongoing major project at RHQ SLSR.
At recent ceremony in Jakarta, the Holcim Foundation announced the winning projects of the Holicim Awards 2014 for the Asia Pacific, which \"illustrates how sustainable construction continues to evolve.\"
Since 2004 the Holcim Foundation has given awards for sustainable construction to \"innovative, future-oriented and tangible construction projects to promote sustainable responses to the technological, environmental, socioeconomic and cultural issues affecting building and construction on a local, regional and global level.\"
The selection criteria of winners based on \'target issues\' for sustainable construction that consider environmental, social and economic performance- while also highlighting the need for architectural excellence and a high degree of transferability.\"
The Holcim Awards jury for region Asia Pacific met at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China in July 2014.
Jury report:
\"The jury commends the intention of the project to focus as much on the building process as on the building as physical artifact. The combination of two objectives, pertaining to the term \'building\' both as verb and noun, celebrates a specific understanding of architecture, one derived from the very structure of its making. Greatly appreciated is the project\'s vocational training aspect, which will contribute - beyond the immediate task at hand - to \'capacity building\' in a broader sense: the project would potentially heal collective wounds, build labor workforces, disseminate knowledge, foster sustainable development and strengthen social relations.\"
