Lille lived up to its ambitions at TCA Awards!

In the frame of the Display® Campaign, the "Toward Class A" Award Ceremony took place on Wednesday, April 13th 2011 in Brussels.

The Ceremony was held during the European Union Sustainable Energy Week, at the end of the high-profile event "Communicate your buildings energy rating - 7 magical years of the Display® Campaign", with Pekka Sauri, deputy mayor of Helsinki (FI), announcing the winners as the president of this year’s Jury.

Mr Sauri said : "Judging was not easy at all. All the finalists had shown many positive efforts and it could have gone either way. With a different jury, the results might have been quite different too."


The City of Lille (FR) was awarded with the First Prize. The Jury declared that the word ‘balance’ best described their efforts: “Balance is the key word: achieving the balance between communicating to city staff and to the wider public, between physically improving buildings and influencing behavior, between attention to detail and the bigger picture, between leadership and calls to action, and between pragmatism and idealism."

The Second and Third Prizes respectively went to Cork County (IE), recognized as a “shining example of the public sector” and Velenje (SL), which “efforts in challenging conditions” -the town is supplied with the cheapest heat and power available in Slovenia- were also impressive.

Congratulations to winners!

Find more about the Display® Campaign and the TCA Awards!

Watch the video of the event: "Communicate your buildings energy rating - 7 magical years of the Display® Campaign".

Lille and Cork County are members of Energy Cities.