ULI Awards for Excellence Program
ULI Awards for Excellence defines the standard for real estate development practice worldwide. In its 31st year, the program is the centerpiece of ULI’s efforts to identify and promote best practices in all types of real estate development. The awards recognize the full development process of a project—construction, economic viability, marketing, and management—as well as design. The ULI Awards for Excellence honor development projects in three regions. Each region has its own jury, schedule, and fees.
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Global Awards for Excellence
The ULI Global Awards for Excellence recognize projects that provide the best cross-regional lessons in land use practices. Up to five global winners may be named each year—chosen from among the year’s winning projects in the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific—by a select jury of international members.
ULI Amanda Burden Urban Open Space Award
The ULI Amanda Burden Urban Open Space Award celebrates and promotes vibrant, successful urban open spaces by recognizing and rewarding an outstanding example of a public destination that has enriched and revitalized its surrounding community.
J.C. Nichols Prize
The Urban Land Institute J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development recognizes an individual whose own work, or work on behalf of an institution, has made a distinguished contribution to community building and who is committed to a built environment of the highest quality, anywhere in the world.
Jack Kemp Workforce Housing Models of Excellence Awards
These awards from the ULI Terwilliger Center for Workforce Housing recognize best practices in the development of workforce housing by private developers throughout the United States.
ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition
The ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition is a graduate-level annual competition that is intended to provide an interdisciplinary learning experience for real estate and design students in the United States and Canada. Self-formed student teams are asked to provide an urban design and a financial feasibility strategy for a large-scale real life site that ULI has identified somewhere in the United States. Through the formation of multidisciplinary teams, the program encourages cooperation and teamwork among future real estate professionals and the many allied professions, such as architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, historic preservation, engineering, real estate development, finance, psychology, law, and others.