Honeywell Headquarters at Legacy Union | LEED Gold | Photo: Honeywell
Highlighting green building initiatives and achievements
USGBC's U.S. Local Market Leadership Awards celebrate excellence from projects, people, and partners who are working in their local community to align the built environment with critical imperatives including decarbonization, ecosystem conservation and restoration, equity, health, and resilience. The awards promote and recognize excellence in sustainable design, environmental stewardship and community impact by highlighting the green building initiatives and achievements of local projects, businesses and individual leaders.
- The following markets are participating in the 2024 U.S. Local Market Leadership Awards program, grouped by application deadline:
- Group 1 (August 26 Nomination Deadline): Alabama, Colorado, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey, Tennessee
- Group 2 (October 10 Nomination Deadline): Arkansas, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois (project awards only), Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Texas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Virginia, West Virginia
- The nomination deadline in Florida has been extended to Oct. 21
- Nominees for Project, People or Partner awards must be in one of the above markets as defined by USGBC. Projects qualify based on location, even if the nominator is not in that market.
- Project award nominees must have been certified under LEED or another GBCI program in the last two years (since Jan. 1, 2022).
- Nominees who have won another USGBC award in the last three years are not eligible. For Project Awards, this is limited to a specific building project. Project teams who have won awards within the last three years for a different project are welcome to submit new projects. Previous Project Award Winners who have made new improvements to the project or performance, or who have achieved additional LEED certifications or recertifications are eligible after three years.
- All nominees give consent for USGBC to promote their nomination if it is chosen as a winner. The information provided in the nomination form can be used in award-related promotions, including listing in the usgbc.org directory, social media and other media.
- All Project Award Nominees must create/update their USGBC project profile on usgbc.org with a description and photos. Learn how to update your project profile.
- Project award applications in all markets have an application fee of $50. The fee may be paid by credit card at the time of application or you may request to be invoiced. You may request to have the application fee waived if you work for a government or nonprofit organization or if you cannot pay due to economic hardship. Contact us with any inquiries about waiving the project award application fee.
- There is no fee to nominate people or organizations for awards.
2024 award winners
Explore previous winners of our awards.
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Ecological Conservation + Restoration
VIMS - The Acuff Center for Aquaculture
DC, Maryland and Virginia
Design + Construction
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Campus Instructional Facility
Illinois
Ecological Conservation + Restoration
