With less than two weeks until the 2015 Sustainability Awards winners are announced we thought we’d rekindle our reader’s interstate rivalry in the best way we know how—a state by state breakdown of all the shortlisted projects and categories for the 2015 awards program.

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Admittedly, the Sustainability Awards are not comprehensive enough to be a statistical representation of the green buildings in each state. However, they do present an excellent sample of the top tier of work in this sector across the country.

And if we take this year’s shortlist as anything to go by, Victoria is definitely leading the fray.

Victoria has a staggering 26 projects shortlisted from a total of 52 in the 2015 program, ahead of Queensland who has the next highest representation with 17 shortlisted projects. If it was a draw of the hat game, then Victorians would expect to take home the Public Building, Residential Single (Alterations & Additions), Residential Single (New) and Small Commercial category awards easily.

They would also have an equal chance of winning the Landscape, Large Commercial and Office Fitout categories, leaving only the Multi-Density Residential category prize up for grabs, which theoretically would be taken out by Western Australia who has a total of three projects out of the pool of five.

Here’s a quick state by state breakdown of the 2015 Sustainability Awards finalists. Click on the links for more detail on each of the projects in their respective categories.

BEST OF THE BEST (breakdown of all projects)

  • Australian Capital Territory: 1 Project
  • New South Wales: 8 Projects
  • Queensland: 17 Projects
  • South Australia: 4 Projects
  • Tasmania: 1 Project
  • Victoria: 26 Projects
  • Western Australia:  4 Projects

BY CATEGORY

LANDSCAPE DESIGN

  • New South Wales: 2 Projects 
  • Queensland: 1 Project
  • Victoria: 2 Projects 

LARGE COMMERCIAL

  • Queensland: 2 Projects 
  • South Australia: 1 Project
  • Victoria: 2 Projects

MULTI-DENSITY RESIDENTIAL

  • New South Wales: 2 Projects
  • South Australia: 1 Project
  • Victoria: 2 Projects
  • Western Australia: 3 Projects
     

OFFICE FITOUT

  • Australian Capital Territory: 1 Project 
  • New South Wales: 1 Project 
  • Queensland: 1 Project 
  • South Australia: 1 Project
  • Victoria: 1 Project 
     

PUBLIC BUILDING & URBAN DESIGN

  • New South Wales: 1 Project
  • Queensland: 1 Project
  • Victoria: 6 Projects
     

SINGLE DWELLING (ALTERATIONS AND ADDITIONS)

  • New South Wales: 1 Project
  • Queensland: 1 Project
  • Victoria: 6 Projects 
     

SINGLE DWELLING (NEW)

  • Queensland: 2 Projects
  • South Australia: 1 Project
  • Tasmania: 1 Project
  • Victoria: 4 Projects 

SMALL COMMERCIAL

  • New South Wales:  1 Project
  • Victoria: 3 Projects 
  • Western Australia: 1 Project