Nominations are now Open for Brownie Awards in Canada

Deadline: 14-Sep-22

The Canadian Urban Institute is pleased to launch the Brownie Awards to recognize the innovative efforts of professionals who rehabilitate sites that were once contaminated, under-utilized, and undeveloped by remaking them into productive residential and commercial projects that contribute to the growth of healthy communities across Canada.

As an annual celebration recognizing excellence in the remediation and redevelopment of brownfield sites across Canada, the Brownie Awards are presented proudly in partnership by the Canadian Brownfields Network and Actual Media.

Categories

• The Brownies are awarded annually in seven categories:
  • REPROGRAM – Legislation, Policy and Program Initiatives
    • Projects or programs that:
      • Remove barriers and/or facilitate brownfield redevelopment, reinvestment and regeneration
      • Provide models of excellence that can be applied or replicated by provincial, regional or municipal governments
  • REMEDIATE – Sustainable Remediation and Technological Innovation
    • Projects or programs that:
      • Demonstrate leadership and innovation in environmental remediation
      • Promote technological solutions that avoid broader environmental impacts
      • Incorporate ecological principles through pilot projects or full-scale implementaion of remediation methods
      • Encourage use of innovative, cost-effective technologies that shift perceptions in the marketplace
  • REINVEST – Financing, Risk Management and Partnerships
    • Projects or programs that:
      • Rely on innovative approaches to stimulate new investment or facilitate collaborative partnerships to implement vision for brownfield redevelopment
      • Innovative approaches to obtain capital financing for the purposes of economic and ecological regeneration (i.e. use of public/private partnerships), public incentives to leverage investment
      • Facilitate innovative solutions to mitigating process risk, or improved ROI for public or private funds
  • REFOCUS – Vision of Alternative Benefits to Brownfields Remediation
    • Projects or programs that:
      • Brownfield projects or programs that demonstrate alignment with broader social initiatives and mandates.
      • Demonstrate significant improvement towards GHG reduction, climate resiliency, affordable housing, healthy communities, and/or diversity & inclusion.
      • Use alternative lenses to see remediation and redevelopment from different perspectives other than economic and environmental ones.
  • REBUILD – Redevelopment at the Local, Site Scale
    • Projects or programs that:
      • Demonstrate excellence in site specific responses to public policy initiatives that accelerate the pace of regeneration resulting from development
      • Promote an enhanced public realm; successfully leverage opportunities for collaboration and policy integration across different sectors
      • Combine imaginative adaptive reuse of heritage structures that promote health and well-being
  • RENEW – Redevelopment at the Community Scale
    • Projects or programs that:
      • timulate neighbourhood-scale reinvestment
      • Use adaptive reuse of heritage and other structures to encourage integrated multi-phased redevelopment
      • Demonstrate high levels of collaboration; inspire many land owners and investors to engage with community support of a shared vision
      • Promote comprehensive neighbourhood transformation by re-envisioning the public realm, and improving functionality, liveability and character
  • REACH OUT – Communication, Marketing and Public Engagement
    • Projects or programs that:
      • Successfully package municipal reinvestment plans and programs for regeneration and/or brownfields redevelopment in support of a community’s competitiveness and long-term sustainability
      • Demonstrate innovative approaches to build support for public/private investment and development designed to achieve intensification through redevelopment, regeneration and other reinvestment strategies
      • Introduce a brand that enhances acceptance and understanding of brownfield redevelopment, regeneration and reinvestment

Eligibility Criteria

• Any organization involved in brownfield redevelopment in Canada can submit a nomination – municipalities, utilities, developers, consultants, property owners, non-governmental organizations, regulators, etc. – either on behalf of someone else or for its own work.

For more information, visit Canadian Urban Institute.

For more information, visit https://canadianbrownfieldsnetwork.ca/brownfield-awards/brownies