Ar. Saiful Haque
Principal, Saif Ul Haque Sthapati
Jury and advisors details
The Delta Award for Architecture are evaluated by a distinguished five-member Jury Board constituted to ensure rigor, diversity of perspective, and professional authority.
Composition - The Jury comprises three eminent Bangladeshi architects from the practice and the academia, one foreign architect and a scholar from another discipline. The Chairperson shall be the senior most local architect on the panel. The distinguished Jury Board members for the current cycle are:
Dr. Firdous Azim
Professor, Department of English, BRAC University
Ar. Prof. Rafiq Azam
Principal Architect, Shatotto-Architecture for Green Living
Ar. Dr. Zakiul Islam
Professor, Department of Architecture, BUET
Ar. Niklaus Graber
Co-Founder, Graber & Steiger Architects
— Technical Advisor
An IFC-nominated representative would serve as a Technical Advisor to the Jury Board for the following categories:
- Delta Sustainability & Resilience Award
- Delta Contextual and Social Impact Award
In this capacity, the IFC representative would provide guidance on sustainability-related technical aspects and support the effective application of the EDGE App within the evaluation process.
— Awards Director
Ar. Dr. Nabanita Islam, Associate Prof. of NSU will be the Awards Director of the current cycle.
— Advisor
Ar. Jalal Ahmed, Founder & CEO, ARCHICONNECT will be acting as advisor to the Awards.
— Quorum
All five members shall constitute a quorum for deliberation and decision.
— Decision Process
All decisions shall be reached by majority vote. The Jury Chairperson shall communicate the outcome for each category to the Award Director.
— Withholding of Awards
Where the Jury determines that any submission that does not meet the award standard, it retains the right to withhold that award for the cycle.
— Entry Rejection
The Jury may, by majority opinion, remove any entry from consideration or reassign it to a more appropriate category.
— Authenticity
The Jury reserves the right to disqualify any entry found to contain false, misleading, or unverifiable information.
— Confidentiality & Finality
All Jury deliberations and decisions are strictly confidential. Jury decisions are final, without recourse to appeal, and binding on all participants.