For the previous AAA you can find the media release about the winners of August 2022.  All entries can be found at the AAA2022 RESULTS. Now in the following again to the AAA2023:

CATEGORY
REALIZED SOLUTIONS / architects, civil engineers and their studios
STUDENT DESIGNS / architecture and civil engineering students

SCHEDULE
December 19, 2022 – Competition announcement and registration opens
April 30, 2023           – Project submission deadline (23:59 hours Zurich time)
June 02, 2023           – afternoon, Winners’ announcement event, Nest building, Empa Duebendorf (on-site and public stream)
                                     (AAA2023 is part of the 3rd day of AIA - Aerogel Industry Academia Forum 2023, May 31 - June 02 - in preparation, save the date)

JURY
Ralf Kilian // Fraunhofer IBP / Preservation of Historic Monuments and Preventive Conservation / Germany
Beat Kämpfen // Kämpfen Zinke + Partner / Switzerland
Volker Herzog // Herzog-architektur / Germany
Manfred Wehdorn // Wehdorn architekten / Austria
Matthias Koebel // Siloxene AG / newly founded Empa start-up / Switzerland

PARTNERS
Solarwall / Advanced Glazings
Agitec
FIXIT
IBIH
Hasit
Empa

CONDITIONS FOR SUBMISSION
Architectural and civil engineering studios can submit realized projects of renovation, refurbishment or new buildings located in any country and place. Students of architecture and civil engineering can submit their proposals and design studio projects with use of aerogel based materials. The award is communicated in English. Projects should be no older than three years. Highly encouraged are submissions of realized projects of renovation of protected buildings, refurbished buildings and new buildings where the energy efficiency was improved using aerogel insulation materials or translucency of silica aerogels is used. Winners will be invited to Switzerland for the announcement event, which will take place at the NEST building at the Empa campus in Duebendorf (Zurich). The winners will receive a memorial trophy and will be invited to introduce shortly their project within ca. 10 minutes to broader audience.

THE HOW-TOs OF SUBMITTING YOUR PROJECT
Please send a ZIP or RAR file (max. 20MB) to email  (secretary) until deadline. Feel free to access files for download for poster layout (AI or PDF). For your submission, choose 6 digit identification number (0-9) please. You should try to avoid numbers in the sequence please, as well as same numbers or alphabet characters. Mark your poster and name ZIP file with your identification number.

• 1 PDF A1 size poster (portrait) with plans, section, photographs and linear drawings (poster layout to download above)
• 1-3 pcs JPEG - cover photos of the project, which will be used in media and webpages, high resolution
• 1x detail of use of aerogel based insulation (on the poster), linear technical drawing with emphasized aerogel part (Blue RGB – 95,183,215) and list of materials, photos of detail if available
• Fill-in please the online registration form (or if it is not working for you, send us please the Excel file of Registration form as an attatchment to michal.ganobjak@empa.ch). Send by email the ZIP file with selected details on aerogel use in your project, description with ca. 300 words of the project. Text, picture and detail can be placed also on the poster.

* with submission you agree with the publication of the project and confirm, that you took care about property rights for images, graphics and drawings, which are part of your submission.

CRITERIA OF EVALUATION

• Preservation of appearance in case of cultural heritage
• Energy efficiency concept
• Originality of the solution

AWARD
Winners in both categories will receive an invitation to present their projects at the Awards event, a trophy, a certificate and broader public recognition, including publication of their project.

Student category will be additionally awarded with financial prize:
        1^st place – 1500 CHF (ca. 1500 €)
        2^nd place – 1000 CHF
        3^rd place – 500 CHF
        Honorable mention – 250 CHF (if jury decides)

AEROGEL APPLICATION WEBPAGE
with selected materials types and projects of aerogel building applications.
http://aerogelapplications.org

SURVEY ON AEROGEL USE IN BUILDINGS (voluntary)
Please participate in our survey on aerogel building applications (DE/ENG) with your project. The form can be filled-in even if the project will be not submitted to the competition.
https://aerogelapplications.limequery.com/437783

ARTICLE ON AEROGEL APPLICATIONS IN BUILDINGS
Michal Ganobjak, Samuel Brunner, Jannis Wernery,
Aerogel materials for heritage buildings: Materials, properties and case studies,
Journal of Cultural Heritage, Volume 42, 2020, Pages 81-98, ISSN 1296-2074,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.culher.2019.09.007.

NEW ARTICLE ON TRANLUCENT WALLS, WITH AEROGEL GLASS BRICKS
Michal Ganobjak, Wim J. Malfait, Janis Just, Marcel Käppeli, Francisco Mancebo, Samuel Brunner, Jannis Wernery,
Get the light & keep the warmth - A highly insulating, translucent aerogel glass brick for building envelopes,
In. Journal of Building Engineering, Volume 64, 2023, 105600, ISSN 2352-7102, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2022.105600.

LINKS TO REFERENCES OF THE PARTNERS
Solarwall / Advanced Glazings  // daylighting solutions with aerogel https://www.advancedglazings.com/case-studies?page=0
Agitec - reseller and producer of products with aerogel // https://agitec.ch/referenzen/index.php
FIXIT - aerogel render Fixit 222,  https://www.fixit-aerogel.com/referenzen  // all insulation renders https://www.fixit.ch/referenzen?maingroup=169
IBIH - producer of aerogel materials, http://www.ibih.cn/a/chanpinjianjie/
Hasit - aerogel render system, https://www.hasit.de/referenzen?q=aerogel  // all renders https://www.hasit.de/referenzen
Empa - laboratory 312 - Building Energy Components and Materials // https://www.empa.ch/web/s312/research