Built by the Best Award
Applications for 2025 are now closed.
Winners will be announced at the CEBA Conference & Expo, November 3 - 5, Las Vegas, Nevada.
The Controlled Environment Building Association's Built by the Best Award acknowledges expertise and innovation in constructing, renovating and/or modernizing controlled environment buildings across the world. The award is open to project teams around the globe, in all regions comprised of Contractor / Design-Build companies / End-User companies that are active association members. Any of these parties can submit an application.
Buildings recognized with the Built by the Best Award seal represent the most innovative and complex facilities built around the globe according to the intricate, unique standards set forth by the controlled environment industry.
2025 AWARD CATEGORIES
This year’s award program offers a more streamlined application process and includes awards recognizing the varied sizes of controlled environment buildings constructed worldwide.
After three years of an "Above $35MM" and "Below $35MM" categories for the Built by the Best Award, the award will evolve into three new categories:
- Controlled Environment, Cold Storage & Distribution Warehouses are specialized facilities designed to store and distribute perishable products that require temperature control to maintain quality and safety. These warehouses play a crucial role in supply chain logistics, particularly for industries like food, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology. Submissions for this may be conventional, semi-automated, or fully automated warehouses.
- Processing/Manufacturing Facilities are industrial operations where raw materials are transformed into finished goods or intermediate products. These facilities are key to various supply chains and include a broad range of industries. Submissions for this category should emphasize use of controlled environment building features.
- Special Works Projects (Small Expansions, Tenant Improvements, Maintenance, Retrofits, and Renovations) are targeted and strategic improvements intended to deliver specific goals/outcomes/enhancements. Generally, these projects should be in the USD <$20MM range. Submissions for this category might include things like:
- Adding in blast freezing cells to an operating cold storage,
- Retrofitting in some automated features into an existing facility.
- Building a box-in-box facility.
Questions?
If you have questions about CEBA's Built by the Best award or submission process, please contact Holly Coughlan, Manager of Member and Business Development Services at hcoughlan@gcca.org.