The finalists for the 2019 Sustainability Awards have been announced, and from a field of nearly 168 initial entries, we now have 64 eminently worthy finalists ready for our Gala Night on November 7 at The Star in Sydney.

In general terms, this year there were a few things that we added that in some ways had a significant effect on the outcome of the final mix of the shortlist.

You can see the full list of the finalists here.

This year was a milestone in many ways. Firstly, it’s our 13^th awards, no mean feat for an industry that has seen more closures than anniversaries in the past decade. Then there is the issue of the number of categories in 2019 – 17 to be precise, which is the highest we have ever hosted for the Sustainability Awards.

Our other structural improvement to the awards is our judging panels. This year we have opted for 10 outstanding and high-experienced judges that we know will pick the very best entries from what is a stunning field to say the least.

Entry Name	Company	Category
Kinley Cricket Club	Winter Architecture	Best Adaptive Reuse
Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Primary School	BVN	Best Adaptive Reuse
Arup Melbourne Workplace HASSELL in partnership with Arup	Arup	Commercial Architecture (Large)
Axle at South Eveleigh	Mirvac	Commercial Architecture (Large)
Collaborative Sydney workspace	Gensler	Commercial Architecture (Large)
Mount mulligan Lodge	Dubois	Commercial Architecture (Large)
Visy Essendon Fields	A1 Office	Commercial Architecture (Large)
Dales of Derby	Philip M Dingemanse	Commercial Architecture (Small)
Kinley Cricket Club	Winter Architecture	Commercial Architecture (Small)
Workspace Transformation	A1 Office	Commercial Architecture (Small)
A.B. Paterson College's: The Winton Centre	A.B. Paterson College	Education & Research
Beaumaris North Primary School	ARKit	Education & Research
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences	Architectus	Education & Research
Highton Child and Family Centre	Brand Architects	Education & Research
Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Primary School	BVN	Education & Research
Emily Wombwell	SJB	Emerging Architect / Designer of the Year
Oliver Steele	Steele Associates	Emerging Architect / Designer of the Year
HY William Chan	COX	Future Sustainability Leader
Kaylie Salvatori	Arcadia Landscape Architecture	Future Sustainability Leader
Oliver Steele	Steele Associates	Future Sustainability Leader
'Off the Grid' - Carbon Neutral, Cradle to Cradle commercial carpet	Shaw Contract Australia	Green Building Material of the Year
Hydrowood	Hydrowood	Green Building Material of the Year
Wise by Amorim	Market Timbers	Green Building Material of the Year
Mirvac's South Eveleigh Building	Mirvac Constructions	Intelligent Building
Welcome to The Jungle House	CplusC Architectural Workshop	Intelligent Building
B-Line Commuter Car Park Manly Vale	Transport for NSW	Landscape & Biophilia
Bendigo Botanic Gardens Garden for the Future By TCL (Taylor Cullity Lethlean) and Paul Thompson with Peter Elliott Architecture	TCL	Landscape & Biophilia
Biophilic Design for the City of Hope Eco Housing	Schimminger Architects	Landscape & Biophilia
Parliament of Victoria Members Annexe By Peter Elliott Architecture and Urban Design and TCL (Taylor Cullity Lethlean)	TCL	Landscape & Biophilia
The Common at West Village	Sekisui House Australia	Landscape & Biophilia
Torhaven Ephemeral Wetland	Defence Housing Australia	Landscape & Biophilia
Cirque Mount Pleasant	Stirling Capital	Multiple Dwelling
Clifton Hill Terraces	Field Office Architecture	Multiple Dwelling
Nightingale 2.0 - This submission to the Sustainability Awards is for a collaboration between Six Degrees Architects and Hip v Hype Sustainability	Six Degrees Architects	Multiple Dwelling
The Fern - Australia's First Passivhaus Apartments	Steele Associates	Multiple Dwelling
VIEW	Fuse Architecture	Multiple Dwelling
West Village One	Sekisui House Australia	Multiple Dwelling
Blue Mountains CLT Studio	Design King Company	Prefab & Modular
Bruny Island	Ecoshelta	Prefab & Modular
GOODHOUSE ARCHITECTURE	Goodhouse	Prefab & Modular
Mullum Creek House	Habitech Systems	Prefab & Modular
Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Primary School	BVN	Prefab & Modular
South Cres	ARKit	Prefab & Modular
Bendigo Hospital	Exemplar Health	Public & Urban
Emanuel Synagogue	Lippmann Partnership	Public & Urban
Yerrabingin Indigenous Rooftop Farm	Mirvac	Public & Urban
Imprint House	Anderson Architecture	Single Dwelling (Alteration or Addition)
Lilyfield House	studio203	Single Dwelling (Alteration or Addition)
Palmyra II	Turner	Single Dwelling (Alteration or Addition)
The Tree House	Adapt Architecture	Single Dwelling (Alteration or Addition)
Biophilia - Slate House Northcote	Melbourne Design Studios (MDS)	Single Dwelling (New)
Elemental House	Ben Callery Architects	Single Dwelling (New)
Ferry Road	Anderson Architecture	Single Dwelling (New)
Fundamental House	Sandbox Studio	Single Dwelling (New)
GOODHOUSE 13	Goodhouse	Single Dwelling (New)
House 4 at City of Hope Eco Housing	Schimminger Architects	Single Dwelling (New)
Owl Woods Passive House	Talina Edwards Architecture	Single Dwelling (New)
Welcome to the Jungle	CplusC Architectural Workshop	Single Dwelling (New)
Carpets Inter EcoSoft carpet tiles	Above Left / Carpets Inter	Waste Elimination
Seagrass stimulation integrated System	COLUMBUS Group	Waste Elimination
Amanda Visser	The Star Entertainment Group	Women in Sustainability
Helen King	Renewal SA	Women in Sustainability
Natasha Mulcahy	Sekisui House Australia	Women in Sustainability
Sandra Furtado	Furtado Sullivan	Women in Sustainability

Lastly, this year’s jurist’s panel has what many would consider to be the perfect mix: unmatchable expertise combined with scintillating intellect, all in a group of people that are diverse in their outlook, experience and also understanding of what are the crucial elements across the entire sustainable built environment.

It is also as a first for our judging panel, we have managed to surpass gender parity, a reflection of not only our determination to ensure a level of societal fairness and true equity in our panel, but also an indication of the talent and sheer skill of many women who are making enormous contributions to sustainability in the built environment. It is a template and a forerunner of what these awards will deliver in the future.

Getting back to the finalists, this year will be remembered as one where the finalists were of a calibre that was both highly impressive and yet also diverse and some would say, non-conforming. These are very rare qualities to have all at the same time, showing the ever-increasing depth and scope of what we now consider as being sustainable design across the entire spectrum of the built environment.

Lastly, the 2019 Sustainability Awards would not be possible without the invaluable support provided to us by our wonderful sponsors: Hyne Timber, HP, Knauf, James Hardie, Technical Protection Systems, Equitone, Stormtech, Weathertex, Atlantis , Zip Industries, Above Left and Interface.

To buy tickets to the 2019 Sustainability Awards Gala Night and/or Sustainability Live, click here.

Branko Miletic

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