The Victoria Residential Builders Association has announced the Finalists for the 2025 CARE Awards and you can vote for the popular Peoples’ Choice Award.

From September 1 to September 14, view these outstanding homes at careawards.ca and vote for your favourite. The projects will also be on display at Hillside Centre. Voters will be entered to win a stay at Long Beach Lodge Resort, the 2002 CARE Awards Project of the Year.

Winners of the People’s Choice Award and the other categories will be announced Friday, October 3 at our CARE Awards Gala at the Fairmont Empress Hotel.

The CARE Awards is the premier industry event showcasing Canada’s leaders in West Coast home design and construction.

CARE Awards Finalists were judged by a panel of industry professionals using criteria such as design, energy efficiency, quality workmanship, and creative use of space.

For more than three decades, VRBA’s industry event has been the Gold standard for new homes, renovations, kitchens, bathrooms and outdoor living spaces.

A full colour CARE Awards magazine highlighting the winners will be distributed in the Times Colonist and online at careawards.ca.

Planning a new home or renovation? Visit vrba.ca and submit an Expression of Interest to our members. Perhaps your home will be a future CARE Awards winner!

VRBA appreciates the generous support of our 2025 CARE Awards Sponsors:

Gold: Built Green Canada; Cantu Bathrooms and Hardware / Phylrich; FortisBC; Hourigan’s Flooring; Independent Contractors and Businesses Association; McLaren Properties Ltd; Slegg Building Materials; Trail Appliances; Travelers Insurance Company of Canada; Victoria Real Estate Board

Silver: Centra Windows; Coast Capital; Professional Home Builders Institute; Westeck Windows and Doors

Media: CFAX/CTV; Times Colonist; Yellow Sheet Construction Data

This column appears Wednesdays in the Times Colonist.

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