2012 ULI Global Awards for Excellence Program

ULI Global Awards for Excellence defines the standard for real estate development practice worldwide. In its 33rd 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 Global Awards for Excellence honor development projects across the world in a single competition. The jury is composed of international ULI members who are recognized leaders in their field. Each award finalist will be visited on site by a jury member, making this one of the most rigorous and respected processes of any award program.
ULI Urban Open Space Award

The
ULI 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.