The Big 5 Gaia Awards - named after the mythical Greek goddess of the earth - provide a platform for leading green products and services and feature over 30 products and services. The award winners were announced at the ITP Construction Week Building Awards on 5 November 2008.

Nominations were received from the 2,900 exhibiting companies at this year's Big 5 and a distinguished panel of judges representative of the regional community awarded 27 medals of merit and one Gaia Gold medal.

The overall winner was SolaSteel manufactured by Coolsheild International distributed by Tiger Profiles. Highly commended and silver medal winners were Fermacell Gypsum Fibre Boards manufactured by Xella Germanu and marketed by Excel Technical Distribution and Liquid Plastic Green Roofing Systems manufactured by Liquid Plastics.

The judging panel was assembled with the support of Ecospecifier International and were: David Baggs, Technical Director and Principal Consultant, Ecospecifier; Dr Ashraf Hegazy, Sustainable Projects Manager, Aldar; Gonzalo Seminario, LEED accredited Senior Architect, Nakheel; Samuel Keehn, Environmental and Sustainability Manager, Energy Management Services International; and Georgina Legoe, CEO, Sustainability Advisory Group.

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