The LafargeHolcim Awards 2017 jury for region Asia Pacific met at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), Australia to select projects using the “target issues” for sustainable construction. The jury members were Donald Bates (Head of Jury, Australia), Marc Angélil (Switzerland), Emmanuel Garcia (France), Guillaume Habert (Switzerland), Nirmal Kishnani (Singapore), Doreen Heng Liu (China), Jay Sanjayan (Australia), Rahul Srivastava (India), and J Meejin Yoon (USA).

The jury met at the new Melbourne School of Design building by a collaboration between local architect John Wardle Architects and American Nader Tehrani. The Director of Boston based architectural firm NADAAA were a LafargeHolcim Awards Acknowledgement prize-winner for the renovation and extension of the John H Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape & Design at the University of Toronto.

Since 2003 the Foundation advances the discourse on sustainable construction through its international Awards competitions, academic Forums and publications. This video introduces the main activities of the organization. Promoting best practice, pioneering fresh solutions, and inspiring both established and the “Next Generation” of architects, engineers, planners, developers and contractors to adopt sustainable parameters for all their building projects are just a few of its ambitious objective.