CEBA calls for Built By the Best submissions
Just a few weeks remain for controlled-environment construction specialists to put themselves in the running for CEBA’s global Built By the Best Awards 2025, as the submission deadline of July 31 approaches.
Built By the Best, run by the Controlled Environment Building Association (CEBA), is the definitive award for innovative controlled environment construction projects anywhere in the world. This year there are three new categories open for submissions.
Recognition with a CEBA Built By the Best Award represents global leadership in design and construction of innovative, often complex temperature-controlled facilities, built to the highest standards, including quality, sustainability, and safety. In 2024, CEBA named Stellar (Jacksonville, Florida) and Maple Reinders Constructors (Ontario, Canada) as the recipients of the 2024 CEBA Built By The Best Awards.
“CEBA members represent the best of building and delivering facility innovation for the cold chain,” Sara Stickler, GCCA president and CEO, said in a news release. “We are delighted to recognize excellence in this field through the Built By the Best Award program. The Built by the Best award acknowledges expertise and innovation in constructing, renovating or modernizing controlled environment buildings around the world. We are pleased to welcome entries to our new award categories through the July 31 submission deadline.”
The three award categories for Built By the Best 2025 are:
- Controlled Environment, Cold Storage & Distribution Warehouses (submissions may be for conventional, semi-automated, or fully automated warehouses).
- Processing/Manufacturing Facilities (submissions should emphasize use of controlled environment building features).
- Special Works Projects: Small Expansions, Tenant Improvements, Maintenance, Retrofits, and Renovations (targeted and strategic improvements such as addition of blast freezing cells to an operating cold storage; or retrofitting automated features into an existing facility).
This year’s Built By the Best Awards will be presented during the CEBA Annual Conference and Expo 2025, set for Nov. 3-5 in Las Vegas, where the finalists will have the opportunity to present their projects to conference delegates.
The award is open to project teams in any country comprised of CEBA member contractor or design-build companies; and processor, end-user, warehouse or third-party logistics businesses (members or non-members), for a new build or expansion for a building which maintains a controlled environment, completed between January 2024 and March 2025. Click here for full eligibility details.
The Awards will be decided by a team of judges drawn from the non-submitting member companies within the CEBA Board and Committees.