The Victoria Residential Builders Association has announced the Finalists for the 2023 CARE Awards and you can vote for the popular Peoples’ Choice Award.

From September 11 to September 24 visit the photo display at Hillside Centre or online at careawards.ca and vote for your favourite project. Voters will be entered to win a stay at Long Beach Lodge Resort, 2002 CARE Awards Project of the Year.

Winners of the People’s Choice Award and other categories will be announced Friday, October 20 at the Fairmont Empress Hotel.

The CARE Awards is the premier industry event showcasing Canada’s leaders in sustainable West Coast 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. An online presentation will be available at CTV-Vancouver Island.

Planning a new home or renovation? Visit vrba.ca and submit an Expression of Interest to our members. Perhaps your project will become a 2023 CARE Awards winner!

VRBA appreciates the generous support of our 2023 CARE Awards Sponsors:

Gold: BC Housing; BCCA Employee Benefits Trust; Built Green Canada; FortisBC; Hourigan’s Flooring; McLaren Properties Ltd;

Slegg Building Materials; Travelers Insurance Company of Canada;  Victoria Real Estate Board

Silver: Coast Capital Savings; Trail Appliances

Bronze: Mike Geric Construction

Media: CFAX/CTV; Times Colonist

This column appears Wednesdays in the Times Colonist.

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