
Green Building Calculator GBC Awards
BUILD Sustainable Building Awards 2023
- On behalf of the team at BUILD, I’d like to thank you for taking part in our much-anticipated Sustainable Building Awards, I hope all has been well since we last reached out.
- As this is our sixth year of running this program, we are proud to host former and new awardees who champion an promote sustainable exploration and support coastal communities worldwide.
- I am delighted to share with you today that, following on from our extensive research period, National Green Specification has been successful this year and has gone on to receive:
Best Green Retrofit Design & Decision Tools Provider 2023 – UK
- How National Green Specification earned this recognition:
- To determine the results, BUILD‘s judging panel and research team consider the commitment, expertise, and innovation shown by nominees through nomination information, votes, any supporting evidence, along with the results from their own comprehensive fact-checking and research process.
- Our merit-driven approach has brought us much success and commendation throughout its use and enforces our stance that victors are not determined by popularity of votes, but by their contributions!

GRC Green Apple Commended Award Winner 2023
- Green Retrofit Calculator V1
- Submitted 30th May 2023
- Awarded 13th September 2023
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INTERNATIONAL GREEN APPLE AWARDS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL BEST PRACTICE 2023
PROJECT:Green Retrofit Calculator Version 1
We introduced a new Green Apple Environment Award last year – ‘Commended’.
Our Commended winners have won not quite enough points for a Gold, Silver or Bronze trophy, but the judges thought their entries deserved some recognition and encouragement to continue with their environmental endeavours.
For instance, some of our Commended winners’ projects are in their infancy, making it difficult for the judges to mark them on actual achieved outcomes. Others contain an element of environmental effort, but operate on a wider level and would probably stand a greater chance of success in our Corporate Social Responsibility Awards. Many factors come into play.
The reason I am giving you this background information is because your entry has been chosen for a Commended Award. Congratulations!
We do not normally announce who has won what until the presentation ceremony itself, but since this is a new award and comes in the form of a certificate, rather than a trophy, we thought it only fair to make you aware of this before you decide whether to join us for the prestigious awards ceremony in The Houses of Parliament, Palace of Westminster, London on Monday, November 20, 2023.
Your Commended certificate will be emailed to you after the event, free of charge.
Congratulations on your achievement.
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Yours sincerely,
Karl Tullett Director
GREEN APPLE COMMENDED AWARD WINNER



Past Awards 2020-2023
GBE gets SME News UK Enterprise Awards 2022
- Green Building Encyclopaedia
- Announced 1st May 2022

GBC V1 Showcased in the 2022 Futurebuild’s Innovations Gallery 2021
- announced 17th December 2021

Awarded 2020/2021
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WSSET Innovation Awards 2020/21.
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‘Green Building Calculator aims to provide non-BIM equipped small design practices with the ability to evaluate their design’s environmental impact and cost of constructing and occupying a building’
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Category: Low carbon buildings and future cities WINNER
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Professor Saffa B Riffat F.EurASc
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President – World Society of Sustainable Energy Technologies

Awarded in 2021
- LSI RISE Awards 2021 (Highly Commended)
- Category: Education & Training,
- Poster 104
- LSI RISE 2021 (Award) G#39789
Awarded in 2020
- Central England Prestige (Award) G#38654
- Best in Sustainable Building Consultancy Services

Awarded in 2020
- Green Apple 2020-21 (Award) G#25925
- National Silver Environment Award
- The Green Apple Awards for Environmental Best Practice PDF
Shortlisted
- Construction Computing 2020 (Award)
- Innovation of the Year (Finalist)
- One to Watch Company (Finalist)
- Constructing Excellence EM 2021 (Shortlisted not awarded)

Long Listed
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- https://mailchi.mp/asbp/asbpnews-jan21?e=84d59243cd
- GBC in ASBP Newsletter
GBC Video in ASBP Award entry long-list
- https://asbp.org.uk/asbp-awards-2021-longlist
- 11 entries 7th is Green Building Calculator
- Version 2 is still under development (2021)
- GBC V1 did not make the shortlist
- Awards Announcements at Healthy Building Conference
- 25th February 2021


Not shortlisted
- Constructing Excellence EofE 2021 (Not shortlisted)
- CIBSE 2020 BPA awards GBC (Not shortlisted)
- So new, no data, no outputs
- Will reapply 2022.
CIOB Sustainability Awards 2022
- Submitted: 10th June 2022
- Submission: 1000 words
- Independent Testimonial: 500 words
- Case Study
- Feedback

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4th September 2021 – 12th June 2023