Mavericks Awards 
Niche awards profiling trailblazers in sustainable building—recognizing ambassadorship; innovation; and transformation.
Announcing Our 2025 Winners
In conjunction with title co-sponsors, Jayman BUILT and SkyFire Energy, Built Green Canada announces winners in our second annual Maverick Awards, out of an impressive selection of worthy finalists—from British Columbia through to Ontario. Learn more.
About Our Maverick Awards
The Maverick Awards are another step forward in Built Green Canada's mission to progress sustainability practices through the recognition of leadership. It’s only fitting that we recognize those who were with us from the beginning, including our founding member, Jayman BUILT. These builders, and the many who have come since, embrace change and progress. To us, they’re mavericks: the ones who see things differently and who were the early adopters of sustainable building, going back over 20 years: ahead of market demand, ahead of regulation, driving innovation—and an industry forward.
To these leaders, we pay homage in using their namesake for our awards program. Like them, we’re doing things differently. Our program offers three exclusive awards; develops assets for winners; and occurs primarily online.
The Maverick Awards are reflective of Built Green Canada’s key underpinnings of innovation, transformation, and ambassadorship.
- The Ambassador Award recognizes those on the ground, encouraging and promoting sustainable building; this speaks to Built Green Canada’s origins in industry engagement and the value of word of mouth.
- The Innovation Award recognizes creative ways sustainable building is happening and progressing industry; it’s in this spirit that Built Green Canada’s third-party certification programs were originally developed and continue to evolve.
- And the Transformational Award recognizes the impact sustainability practices can have in driving real change—achievements which embody the organization’s mission.
Our Maverick Awards take a non-traditional approach in that they don’t culminate with an event. Rather, winners are announced in March, followed by the roll out of our marketing communications, including a series of assets about our winners that will inform the campaign. The creation of these is also intended for the winners’ own promotional efforts. We’re focused on putting a spotlight on our three Mavericks!
Finalists and Winners' Benefits
Finalists will receive:
- 2025 Maverick Awards Finalist logo
- Inclusion in media campaign
- Social media profile
- Maverick Awards Newsletter inclusion
- First Quarter Newsletter inclusion
- Website profile: News; Maverick Awards section
Winners will receive:
- BUILT GREEN® Maverick trophy
- Development of assets for winner’s Marketing-Communications + our media campaign
- Professional short-form videos
- Individual feature article
- 2025 Maverick Winner logo
- Media campaign
- Social media campaign
- Paid campaign, primarily online + featured in Construction Canada
- News release announcing winners (+ individual feature articles)
- Maverick Awards Newsletter feature
- First Quarter Newsletter feature
- Website features – Homepage; News; new Maverick Awards section
- Reoccurring Profile – Built Green Canada is committed to ongoing profile throughout the year for winners, which may include features in separate campaigns, presentations, quarterly newsletters, marketing materials, webinars, socials, etc.
Judging Process
Each entry will be judged on its own merit, based solely on entry materials provided. Entries will be evaluated by a distinguished panel of highly qualified, independent judges within the industry, selected for their expertise in their field. An Accounting Firm chosen by Built Green Canada will monitor the judging process, separate from the organization.
- 0-100 point system, based on category questions + entry statement
- Built Green Canada reserves the right to not award a category, if submission is incomplete or does not meet criteria—or to disqualify entries at its discretion.
Our 2024 Finalists & Winners
We were thrilled by the response to our inaugural Maverick Awards across our three categories. Submissions came in from British Columbia through to Ontario. Congratulations to our 2024 finalists and winners!
A huge thanks to our sponsors, those leaders supporting and celebrating sustainable building: Jayman BUILT, SkyFire Energy, Alberta Real Estate Foundation, Excel Homes, Sustainable Forestry Initiative.
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