The VT Green Building Network announced the winners of the 2025 VT Greenest Building Awards this week. 

The fourteenth annual Vermont's Greenest Building Awards, hosted by the Vermont Green Building Network (VGBN), recognized four projects and design/build teams. The projects received awards for achieving the highest standard of demonstrated energy performance as well as documentation of green building strategies including health, transportation, water, affordability, low embodied carbon and replicability. 

The 2025 winners were celebrated during the Vermont Green Building Celebration event hosted by VGBN at Main Street Landing in Burlington earlier this month on April 9, 2026. Winning buildings were showcased as inspirational, model green buildings that create a new standard for environmentally responsible design.

Winners Included AIAVT members, Vermont Integrated Architecture- Maclay Studio, Kaplan Thompson Architects, Joan Heaton Architects, Artisan Engineering, Wagner Hodgson Landscape Architects, Cx Associates, Engineering Ventures, and ReArch Construction. Congratulations to the members who received the honor of recognition for their work!

Winning projects included:

2025 Vermont’s Greenest Building Award, High Performing Building Recognition & Low Embodied Carbon Recognition | The Putney School - Hepper House Dorm & Faculty Residence by Vermont Integrated Architecture - Maclay Studio

2025 Vermont’s Greenest Building Award, High Performing Building Recognition & Low Embodied Carbon Recognition | The Putney School - Gund House Dorm & Faculty Residence by Vermont Integrated Architecture - Maclay Studio

2025 Vermont Green Building Award and High Performing Building Recognition | Bear Den by Kaplan Thompson Architects

2025 Vermont Green Building Award | Hillside House by Joan Heaton Architecture

See more information about each of the winning projects at https://www.vtgreenbuildingnetwork.org/2025