2022     Winner Inaugural IREBS-Dupuis Award for Affordable Housing for research paper: Adade, D. Kuusaana, E.D., de Vries, W.T. and Gavu, E.K. (2022) Housing Finance Strategies for Low-Income Households in Secondary Cities: Contextualization Under Customary Tenure in Ghana, Housing Policy Debate, 32:3, 549-572, https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2021.1905026    (Dec 2022) http://www.afrer.org/irebs-dupuis-award-for-affordable-housing 

2022     Pollman Fellow in Real Estate and Urban Development

           Harvard University Graduate School of Design

            Pollman Fellowship was established in 2002 through a gift from real estate developer and philanthropist Harold A. Pollman. Awarded yearly to an outstanding postdoctoral graduate in real estate, urban planning, and development who spends one year in residence at the GSD as a visiting scholar. https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2022/08/welcoming-2022-2023-pollman-fellow-emmanuel-kofi-gavu/

2021     Winner, The Conversation Africa 2021 Science Communication Award. For being the KNUST author whose article garnered the most reads between 1 November 2020 and 31 October 2021 (Awarded in Dec 2021) (https://theconversation.com/ghanas-new-rental-scheme-wont-fix-the-real-problem-a-housing-shortage-158322)

2020     Winner Dissertationspreis TU Dortmund University

Awarded the 2020 best PhD thesis of the Faculty of Spatial Planning. This recognition goes to the highest-scoring doctoral thesis within the faculty each year. (https://hochschulmarketing.tu-dortmund.de/events/akademische-jahresfeier/dissertationspreis-dr-ing-emmanuel-kofi-gavu/) (Awarded in Nov 2020)

2017     Winner of the IREBS Foundation for African Real Estate Research manuscript prize

Best paper award during the African Real Estate Society (AfRES) Conference 2017 in Johannesburg on the paper “Determinants of residential rental values in Ghana: Evidence from experts and stakeholder perspectives”.   (Awarded in Sep 2017)

2016     Deutscher Akadamischer Austauschdienst (DAAD Scholar)

Awarded the DAAD/ Government Scholarship Ghana (MoE) 2016 for PhD studies at the Fakultät Raumplanung, Technische Universität Dortmund. Fully sponsored PhD studies in Germany   (Awarded in Apr 2016)

2015     Winner of the IREBS Foundation for African Real Estate Research manuscript prize – Sustainable Real Estate. Best paper award during the African Real Estate Society (AfRES) Conference 2015 in Kumasi on the paper “Comparative analysis of property maintenance in public and private institutions: Lessons from a developing country”.   (Awarded in Sep 2015)

2014     Surveyor F.K. Owusu-Adjapong (Fellow GhIS, PP) Award for Professional Excellence, Best Professional Surveyor Trainee of the Ghana Institution of Surveyors (GhIS)   Awarded to overall best surveyor trainee of the GhIS (Awarded in Feb 2015)

2012     Winner of the IREBS Foundation for African Real Estate Research manuscript prize, during the African Real Estate Society (AfRES) Conference 2012 in Accra on the paper “Management of learning spaces, emerging issues at KNUST, Kumasi”. (Awarded in Sep 2012)

2008      Scholar – Erasmus Mundus

Secured a full scholarship from the European Union for an eighteen months Master’s degree at the University of Twente, The Netherlands