Niche awards profiling trailblazers in sustainable building—recognizing ambassadorship; innovation; and transformation.
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.
These awards take a non-traditional approach in that they don’t culminate with a gala event; rather, winners are announced in March, followed by the roll out of our marketing communications activity, including the development of a series of assets about our winners—including short-form videos and feature articles. These assets are also for the winners’ use. We’re focused on putting a spotlight on our Mavericks!
Submit Your 2026 Entry
For a chance to be featured as one of our Mavericks, learn more about how to submit your entry, which opens October 20, 2025 and closes Feb. 13, 2026.