Could your healthy workplace be an international award winner?

As health and wellbeing stays high on the agenda of organisational change, the Healthy City Design Awards 2025 is on the lookout to identify the world’s healthiest places and spaces.

This award scheme is linked to the Healthy City Design Congress – and its aim is to recognise excellence in the design and planning of facilities in the built environment that promote health and wellbeing.

There’s a special category focused on the workplace which is looking for ‘an innovative workplace design project, business park or innovation district that advances the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the workforce and wider community by applying a range of design principles and strategies.’

Healthy workplace strategies include:

• fostering a positive sense of community and belonging
• bringing light and nature into the workplace
• implementing more flexible ways of working
• encouraging active and sustainable travel and workstyles
• and creating greater comfort – thermal, acoustic, psychological.

Showcasing innovation

The Healthy Workplaces category is supported by WORKTECH Academy. Its panel of judges will be led by Academy chairman Jeremy Myerson, who comments: ‘This is an outstanding opportunity for workplace and real-estate teams, architects and designers, to showcase their creative strategies for making our workplaces healthier. We know there are some brilliant projects out there and we want to see them gain the recognition they deserve.’ The deadline for entries is 4 September 2025 and you can submit your entry here.

There are also categories for healthy homes and neighbourhoods in the Healthy City Design Awards 2025, as well as healthy social infrastructure, design research for healthy cities, healthy city planning and design, healthy transport and mobility, and placemaking for community impact.

The awards scheme is linked to the annual Health City Design Congress, which this year takes place in Salford, Greater Manchester, at The Lowry on 14-15 October 2025. The Congress theme is ‘Transitions to health: impact through planning, policy and investment’. WORKTECH Academy is a partner in the event.

Download the Healthy City Design Awards 2025 Call for Entries here.