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Awards and Competitions
For decades, ULI has set the standard in recognizing outstanding real estate development projects, related programs, and visionaries in urban development. ULI awards programs are highly selective and prestigious. Winners and finalists benefit from worldwide recognition among influential leaders in real estate and urban development related fields.
ULI Awards for Excellence Program
ULI Awards for Excellence

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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The Americas | Europe | Asia Pacific

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.



J.C. Nichols Prize
The Urban Land Institute J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban DevelopmentThe 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.

FT/ULI Sustainable Cities Award
Financial Times Urban Land Institute Sustainable Cities AwardsThe FT ULI Sustainable Cities Awards recognize outstanding and innovative programs that advance the application of sustainability principles to land use and thereby promote their incorporation in cities and in the general real estate industry. Award-winning programs will have global relevance, will add strategic value to companies and communities, and will enhance the environment.

ULI J. Ronald Terwilliger Workforce Housing Models of Excellence Awards
The ULI J. Ronald Terwilliger Center Workforce Housing Models of Excellence AwardThe Terwilliger Awards 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.
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The Final Four: Teams Representing the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan, and Two Teams from the University of Pennsylvania are the 2008 Finalists in the ULI Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition
Teams representing the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Michigan, and two teams from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Design have been selected as the finalists for the sixth annual ULI (Urban Land Institute) Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition. The finalist teams were charged with the design of a development site in the city of Dallas.Best of the Best: ULI Announces Five Winners of the 2007 Global Awards for Excellence Competition
Five outstanding developments have been selected as winners of the Urban Land Institute's Global Awards for Excellence competition, widely recognized as the land use industry’s most prestigious recognition program.In a Class of Their Own: ULI Announces 10 Winners for the 2007 Awards for Excellence: The Americas Competition and one Heritage Award Winner
Ten outstanding developments from North America have been selected as winners for the Urban Land Institute's (ULI) Awards for Excellence: The Americas competition. One development has been chosen as a prestigious Heritage Award winner.In a Class of Their Own: ULI Announces 5 Winners of the 2007 Awards for Excellence: Europe Competition
Five outstanding developments have been selected as winners of the Urban Land Institute's (ULI) Awards for Excellence: Europe competition. The Awards for Excellence are widely recognized as the land use industry’s most prestigious recognition program.In a Class of Their Own: ULI Announces 5 Winners for the 2007 Awards for Excellence: Asia Pacific Competition
Five outstanding developments have been selected as winners of the Urban Land Institute's (ULI) Awards for Excellence: Asia Pacific competition, widely recognized as the land use industry’s most prestigious recognition program.