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2025 BuildingsNEXT Team Showcase Participants
Map showing Design Challenge participating teams.

Congratulations to the teams who participated in the U.S. Department of Energy BuildingsNEXT™ 2025 Team Showcase, April 25-27, 2025, in Golden, Colorado and virtually. All participants and Honorable Mention recipients are listed below by division.

Single-Family Housing Division

  • Appalachian State University—Boone, North Carolina―Honorable Mention

  • Ball State University―—Muncie, Indiana―Honorable Mention 

  • College of the Canyons—Santa Clarita, California

  • Ferris State University—Big Rapids, Michigan

  • Georgia Institute of Technology—Atlanta, Georgia 

  • Harvard University—Cambridge, Massachusetts ―Honorable Mention

  • Illinois Institute of Technology—Chicago, Illinois 

  • Missouri University of Science and Technology—Rolla, Missouri 

  • National University of Sciences and Technology—Islamabad, Pakistan

  • The Pennsylvania State University & Morgan State University—University Park, Pennsylvania

  • The University of British Columbia Okanagan & Thomas Rivers University—Kelowna and Kamloops, British Columbia―Honorable Mention

  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign—Urbana, Illinois 

  • University of Washington—Seattle, Washington

  • University of Washington Tacoma—Tacoma, Washington

  • Virginia Commonwealth University—Richmond, Virginia 

  • Wentworth Institute of Technology—Boston, Massachusetts

Multifamily Building Division

  • Ball State University—Muncie, Indiana 

  • Howard University—Washington, D.C.

  • Illinois Institute of Technology—Chicago, Illinois

  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras—Chennai, India

  • İstanbul Üniversitesi—Istanbul, Turkey

  • Monash University—Melbourne, Australia―Honorable Mention

  • The University of Arizona—Tucson, Arizona ―Honorable Mention

  • The University of British Columbia—Vancouver, British Columbia

  • The University of Oklahoma—Norman, Oklahoma ―Honorable Mention

  • The University of Texas at Austin—Austin, Texas

  • Universitat Politècnica de València—Valencia, Spain ―Honorable Mention

  • University of Art Iran & University of Tehran—Tehran, Iran   

  • University of California, Los Angeles—Los Angeles, California

  • University of Central Florida—Orlando, Florida

  • University of Cincinnati—Cincinnati, Ohio

  • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign—Urbana, Illinois

  • University of Missouri—Columbia, Missouri

  • University of Southern California —Los Angeles, California

  • University of Waterloo —Waterloo, Ontario

  • Wentworth Institute of Technology —Boston, Massachusetts

Education Building Division

  • Appalachian State University —Boone, North Carolina ―Honorable Mention

  • Ball State University —Muncie, Indiana 

  • California State Polytechnic University, Pomona —Pomona, California 

  • Georgia Institute of Technology —Atlanta, Georgia 

  • Monash University —Melbourne, Australia 

  • Myongji University —Seoul, South Korea

  • National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli —Tiruchirappalli, India

  • Northwestern University —Evanston, Illinois 

  • Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú —Lima, Perú 

  • The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art —New York, New York ―Honorable Mention 

  • The University of Arizona —Tucson, Arizona

  • The University of Texas at San Antonio—San Antonio, Texas 

  • Union College of Union County, New Jersey—Cranford, New Jersey

  • University of Cincinnati—Cincinnati, Ohio

  • University of Missouri—Columbia, Missouri

  • University of New Hampshire —Durham, New Hampshire ―Honorable Mention 

  • University of Salford—Salford, United Kingdom

  • University of the District of Columbia—Washington, D.C. 

  • University of Victoria—Victoria, British Columbia 

  • Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University—Blacksburg, Virginia ―Honorable Mention

Open Commercial Division

  • Ankara Yildirim Beyazıt Üniversitesi & University of Wyoming —Ankara, Turkey, and Laramie, Wyoming 

  • Arizona State University —Tempe, Arizona 

  • Ball State University—Muncie, Indiana 

  • Colorado State University & Gebze Teknik Üniversitesi—Fort Collins, Colorado, and Gebze, Turkey

  • Howard University & Gallaudet University—Washington, D.C. 

  • Illinois Institute of Technology—Chicago, Illinois 

  • Indian Institute of Technology Bombay—Mumbai, India 

  • Myongji University—Seoul, South Korea ―Honorable Mention

  • Northeastern University—Boston, Massachusetts ―Honorable Mention 

  • Pennsylvania College of Technology—Williamsport, Pennsylvania

  • The University of Arizona—Tucson, Arizona ―Honorable Mention 

  • The University of Texas at Austin—Austin, Texas

  • University of Cincinnati—Cincinnati, Ohio

  • University of Minnesota Twin Cities—Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota

  • University of Missouri—Columbia, Missouri

  • University of Oregon—Eugene, Oregon ―Honorable Mention

  • University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg—Johannesburg, South Africa 

  • Washington Alexandria Architecture Center—Alexandria, Virginia