The CAA 2026 awards programme features six distinct categories spanning professional practice and education.
Professional Practice:
• CAA Lifetime Achievement Award: Honouring a Commonwealth architect or practice whose body of work has significantly advanced architecture across the Commonwealth over many years.
• CAA Environmental Impact Award: Recognising projects achieving significant positive environmental impact in circular economy, energy and carbon reduction, water management, ecology and biodiversity, or connectivity and transport.
• CAA Environmental Award, IFC Edge Certified Project: A sub-category open to projects achieving IFC EDGE Certification.
• CAA Social Impact Award: Celebrating work demonstrating significant positive social impact in affordability, community development, health and wellbeing, or social value

Education:
• CAA Student Award: For students in Years 1-3 whose work creatively addresses social, economic, and environmental wellbeing in the context of the biodiversity crisis and climate emergency.
• CAA President’s Award: For students in Years 4-6 whose work critically and creatively responds to these urgent challenges.

Distinguished International Jury
The awards will be judged by two distinguished panels representing the five regions of the Commonwealth: Caribbean & Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Pacific.

The Professional Practice Jury includes:
• Sui-Te Wu, CAA Chair of Professional Practice & Jury Chair (United Kingdom)
• Bryan Bullen (Grenada)
• Chris Briffa (Malta)
• Christian Benimana (Rwanda)
• Caroline Pidcock (Australia)
• Prof Dr Yasmeen Lari (Pakistan), 2024 CAA Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient
The Education Jury includes:
• Umar Saeed, CAA Chair of Education Committee & Jury Chair (Pakistan)
• Nooshin Esmaeili (Canada)
• Dr Byron Ioannou (Cyprus)
• Dr Hermie Delport (South Africa)
• Prof Sajida Haider Vandal (Pakistan)
• Dr Charmaine ‘Ilai Talei (New Zealand)