NAHB Global Innovation Awards

The 2021 NAHB Global Innovation Awards Program is now open!

The NAHB Global Innovation Awards annually recognize the most cutting-edge, advanced and original products, services, homes, communities and champions of the building industry from around the world. If your company offers products and services to the home building industry in the U.S. — and beyond — this is your opportunity to Rise Up – Be Recognized – and Shine On 2021!

Award winners will be recognized by the most prestigious building awards program globally, The Nationals at the NAHB International Builders’ Show® (IBS).

Learn more about the GIA benefits and GIA categories, criteria, judging and guidelines.

How to Apply

1. If you don’t have an account on the NAHB.org website, please create your account. It’s free, and you don’t have to be a member to register.
2. Log in with your NAHB.org account.
3. Click on the Apply Now button on the right-hand side (or below) and you will be taken to the Awards portal.
4. The Awards management platform will allow you to submit your information all at once or in phases.
5. The submission for each application will be used by the judges to select a winner and promote the GIA Program.
6. Award recipients will be announced and recognized at the 2022 International Builders’ Show (IBS) in Orlando.

Congratulations to last year’s winners!

Exterior/Interior Product of the Year

WINNER:

• Square D Energy Center, Schneider Electric – Boston, Mass.

Technology/Educational Service of the Year

WINNER:

• SWiDGET – Kingston, Ontario, Canada

International Home of the Year

WINNER:

• Wen Living San Jose in San Jose del Cabo, Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico

• View The Nationals Winners eBook
  
• View The Pillars of the Industry Awards Winners eBook
  

Read more about the 2020 award winners in this feature in Residential Products Online. Details are also on the NAHBNow blog about all of the 2020 award finalists.

A special thanks to the 2020 GIA judges

Exterior/Interior Product of the Year

• Michelle Foster, Vice President, Sustainability, Home Innovation Labs – Upper Marlboro, Maryland
• Tom Halford, Retired Vice President, Premium & Builder Brands, Home IoT Solutions / Connected Living, Samsung Electronics America – Franklin, Tennessee
• Marshall Leslie, Owner & Principal, M. Leslie, Inc. – Toronto, Canada
• Nick Slevin, Publisher, Editor-In-Chief & Developer, Peninsula Publishing Inc. / ABC Green Home – Newport Beach, California

Technology/Educational Service of the Year

• Jason August, President, Gourmet Real Estate, Inc. and Vice President, North Star Synergies – Denver, Colorado
• Mohamad Gozeh, CEO and Geotechnical/Civil Engineer of RMG for Engineering Services, LTD – Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Frank Wickstead, Adjunct Professor, Georgia Tech School of Building Construction College of Design – Atlanta

International Home of the Year

• David Campbell, Builder of Custom Homes & Custom Work Environments, David Campbell Building, Ltd. – Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia
• Art Danielian, Founder & Chairman, Danielian Associates – Irvine, California
• Francisco Osores, Past President of the Peruvian Chamber of Construction; Builder & Developer, La Venturosa Inmobiliaria – Lima, Peru
• Adriana Palmieri, CEO, Desarrollo Haciendas De Las Flores – Villa Nueva, Guatemala