Watch for our announcement of the 2025 CARE Awards Gold winners next week in the Times Colonist and other media.
The CARE Awards gala is Friday, October 3 at the Fairmont Empress Hotel where more than 50 awards will be presented to Canada’s leaders in west coast, home design and construction.
The awards include Project of the Year, People’s Choice, Lifetime Achievement, Environmental Achievement, Building Better Futures Community Award and Green Builder of the Year.
The 2025 CARE Awards kicked off with finalists’ projects displayed at Hillside Centre and online at careawards.ca during the People’s Choice Award contest in September.
The public voted for their favourite project and the winner will be announced at the gala. A lucky voter’s name will be drawn to win a stay at Long Beach Lodge Resort, the 2002 CARE Awards Project of the Year.
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 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 project will become 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: Times Colonist; Yellow Sheet Construction Data
This column appears Wednesdays in the Times Colonist.
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