| | Global Holcim Awards winning projects 2006
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 | | Regional Holcim Awards winning projects 2005 (finalists Global Holcim Awards 2006)
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 | | Regional Holcim Acknowledgement and Encouragement prize winning projects 2005 |
Zurich/Bangkok, April 25, 2006 – USD 1 million in prize money was awarded to the best sustainable construction projects entered in the first global Holcim Awards competition. Joint winners of the Holcim Awards Gold were an urban integration project in Caracas, Venezuela, and the design for a new main railway station in Stuttgart, Germany. 
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Target issues for sustainable construction
The first Holcim Awards competition cycle was launched in the last quarter of 2004, inviting architects, engineers and other specialists in the construction industry to enter projects that meet the challenges of sustainable construction.
Over 3000 projects from 118 countries were submitted for the competition. These entries were assessed by regional juries in five geographic regions: Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa Middle East and Asia Pacific in 2005. From each region, the Award-winning projects qualified for the global competition that took place in Bangkok in 2006.
Prize money for the global phase of the competition was: Holcim Award Gold 300,000 USD (assigned to two projects equally by the jury); Holcim Award Silver 250,000 USD; Holcim Award Bronze 150,000 USD.