Knauf Insulation’s ‘Race to Zero’ is an international competition to find innovative solutions to construction industry challenges while creating buildings that are good for people and good for the environment.

The key question of this competition is: how can we guarantee the success of massive social housing renovation programs while ensuring performance targets are achieved and industry challenges are accommodated?

The competition winners will achieve the following:

Energy efficiency: provide large scale, nearly zero energy retrofit solutions;
Sustainability: reduce the environmental impact of buildings, find circular economy solutions to waste and improve living conditions in terms of fire safety, acoustics and indoor air quality;
Affordability: meet social housing renovation budgets;
Scalability: enable an industrialized approach to renovation;
Creativity: demonstrate innovative concepts that deliver solutions to the challenges above.

Who can participate?

Race to Zero competition is open to teams of a maximum of two people — final year students as well as 2020 graduates — with backgrounds in Architecture, Construction Engineering, Design or any other related discipline.

Entrants must be from university or college faculties in Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg, Portugal or The Netherlands and located in the same country for the duration of the competition.
We actively encourage diversity of team members in line with our commitment to promoting diversity and inclusion.

What to win?

1st team prize: 15.000 €, plus the opportunity of employment at Knauf Insulation;
2nd team prize: 10.000 €, plus the possibility to have an internship at Knauf Insulation.

In addition to the prestige and publicity associated with winning this international competition, winners will be given the opportunity to have hands-on experience of Knauf projects and the chance to work with Knauf Insulation’s world-beating team of experts.

Timing

28th May 2021 – close of subscriptions
30th September 2021 – close of submissions
15th October 2021 – end of national judging round
29th October 2021 – end of final judging round
In November 2021 – final presentation and announcement of winners

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