The projects are across four categories - Sustainable Architecture, Research in Sustainability, Sustainable Products and Technology, and Sustainable Social Programmes.
Entries, submitted earlier this year, were required to demonstrate sound sustainable practices that respond to innovative architectural and design thinking in the field of sustainability, and that complied to the criteria of harmonisation, people upliftment, evolutionary paradigm and placemaking performance.
The adjudicators for the AfriSam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Architecture + Innovation are Maryke Cronje (architect and president of the SAIA), Dr Sechaba Maape (sustainability architecture academic and architect), Philippa Tumubweinee (academic and co-founder of IZUBA INafrica Architects), Niraksha Singh (AfriSam raw materials and sustainability manager), Dr Emmanuel Nkambule (academic with particular interest in the social environment) and Richard Stretton (founder of architecture and furniture design studio Koop Design).
The AfriSam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Architecture + Innovation will form part of a gala event on 26 October at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA).