Recipient: Altura Apartments (BRIDGE Housing, Otak, Salazar Architect, and Colas Construction)
This award recognizes projects that introduce creative or unconventional strategies in design, materials, and building systems to strengthen performance or enhance the resident experience. Altura Apartments demonstrated how forward-thinking approaches in areas such as envelope design, advanced mechanical systems, renewable integration, and distinctive design methodologies can significantly elevate multifamily building performance.
Recipient: The Dr. Darrell Millner Building (Community Development Partners, Self Improvement, Inc., Urban Resources, Inc., Carleton Hart Architecture, PC, and LMC Construction)
This award honors a project that worked closely with its local community to inform and shape the development. The Dr. Darrell Millner Building demonstrated a strong commitment to equity, accessibility, and authentic participation. Future residents and neighbors played an active role in the design and development process, resulting in shared benefits and a deeper connection to the surrounding community.
Recipient: The Steward (DIG Real Estate, LEEB Architects, and LMC Construction)
This award highlights a high-performing market-rate residential project that demonstrated leadership in innovation and sustainability, as well as meaningful contributions to the broader industry. The Steward established a benchmark for design excellence, occupant comfort, and measurable environmental performance, illustrating how market-rate development can drive progress across the sector.
Recipient: Francis + Clare Place (Catholic Charities of Oregon, Edlen & Co., Holst Architecture, and O’Neill/Walsh Community Builders)
This category recognizes an outstanding affordable housing development that delivered environmental performance, resident well-being, and community impact without compromising long-term affordability. Francis + Clare Place showed that affordability and high performance can reinforce one another. The project offers a compelling example of what is possible when housing is designed to be sustainable, resilient, and dignified for all residents.
Recipient: Meridian Gardens (Central City Concern, GLI Advisors, Ankrom Moisan Architects, and Walsh Construction)
This award recognizes a project that did more than meet its own performance goals and helped shift the industry’s understanding of what is possible. Meridian Gardens served as a model for transformation, showing how bold strategies, rigorous performance targets, and cross-disciplinary collaboration can redefine sustainability expectations for the multifamily sector and inspire similar work across the market.
Recipient: Security Properties
This recognition is awarded to the firm whose number of certified units in 2025 reflects a strong and consistent commitment to quality, even during a shifting development landscape. Security Properties’ ongoing dedication to certification demonstrates that scaling high-performance buildings is not only achievable, but vital to meeting environmental and housing goals.
Recipient: Liz Stewart, Walsh Construction
This award honors an individual who has earned trust through steady leadership, consistent execution, and a deep commitment to quality. Liz Stewart demonstrated exceptional skill in coordinating teams, maintaining high-performance construction standards, and delivering projects that meet or exceed today’s rigorous green certification requirements.
Recipient: John Spillman
The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes an individual whose career has significantly shaped the quality, integrity, and evolution of sustainable construction. During his tenure with Earth Advantage, John Spillman influenced both projects and people by mentoring professionals, advancing best practices, and elevating expectations for sustainable, healthy, and high-performing multifamily housing. His legacy is reflected in the buildings he helped bring to life and in the practitioners who continue this important work.