The Build It Back Green website, built for Green Cross Australia by Zeroseven, has won a Best In Class Interactive Media Award in the Natural Environment/Green Category - the highest honour awarded by the international judging panel.

 

The Best in Class award is the highest honour bestowed by the Interactive Media Awards. It represents the very best in planning, execution and overall professionalism.

 

Build It Back Green is a new global movement which recognises that scientific predictions of more intense severe weather are becoming a reality. The Build It Back Green website was been designed to help Victorian communities recovering from the Black Saturday bushfires to build their homes back in an affordable and sustainable manner. 

 

The goal of Build It Back Green is to showcase the lowest cost green rebuilding techniques, focusing on energy efficiency, water savings and indoor air quality, as well as share stories from people who are undertaking the rebuilding process sustaionably.

 

In order to win this award level, the site had to successfully pass through our comprehensive judging process, achieving very high marks in each of our judging criteria - an achievement only a fraction of sites in the IMA competition earn each year.

 

We are really excited about the scores that Stage One of the Build It Back Green website received. Out 100 marks we recieved:

 

Design: 98

Content: 100

Feature Functionality: 100

Usability: 96

Standards Compliance & Cross-Browser Compatibility: 94

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Total: 488

 

Stage Two of the Build It Back Green website will be launched early 2011, which will feature an interactive tour through a sustainable house.

 

As other extreme weather events occur around Australia, the Build It Back Green website will grow to encompas other states of Australia, and as stories are shared, and knowledge gained, we hope to make sustainable rebuilding the norm.

 

The Build It Back Green website was made possible with a generous grant from the Victorian Government Sustainability Fund.