RIAS/Russwood Sustainability Award
The RIAS & Russwood Sustainability Award recognises projects that use innovative approaches to design, materials, construction and more, to further sustainability goals.
Introducing our new sponsor for 2027
Russwood exists to inspire and enable timber-first design.
We’ve spent decades obsessing over how to make cladding, flooring and decking even better. That expertise and passion are distilled into every board we produce.
As a family-run business, we combine products, expertise and support to help architects, interior designers, contractors and self-builders create beautiful, sustainable buildings.
Previous Winners
2026
Ioram, Baillie Baillie Architects
Iorram is a model of how personal passion, precision, innovation, and environmentally conscious thinking can converge in micro-living, delivering a home that is both highly functional and profoundly poetic.
2025
Riverside Primary School, Perth, Architype)
Riverside Primary School is the first Passivhaus-certified school in Scotland, and has been underpinned by a brief to combine the client’s modern and supportive pedagogy with the Passivhaus standard and the use of natural and non-toxic materials.
The judges said “it is clear that the client had a bold vision and an aspiration to create a truly sustainable learning environment and this has been successfully delivered on a modest budget, which makes the achievement even more worthy of an award
