Design Excellence Awards Rules & Regulations

Rules and Helpful Tips

Submitting an outstanding entry binder is critical to winning an RD+B Excellence Award. Following are rules and suggestions to ensure your entry meets competition requirements and improves your chance of winning:

Submitting an outstanding entry binder is critical to winning an RD+B Excellence Award. Following are rules and suggestions to ensure your entry meets competition requirements and improves your chance of winning:

Rules

• Projects considered for RD+B‘s 2012 Excellence Awards must have been completed between Jan. 1, 2010 and May 18, 2012.
• Any firm that has won a previous award from RD+B (including Leading Design/Build Firms) are eligible.
• Past winning projects cannot be submitted. Please enter a new and different project for the 2012 Design Excellence Awards.
• Remodeling projects of any kind are not eligible. Only 100% new construction projects (including teardowns) will be considered.
• Judges’ decisions will be made the week of June 4. Winners will be notified.
• Entrants must submit electronic versions of ALL material including application, binder pages, and supporting material such as photographs, marketing material, drawings, etc.
• Entrants must submit a disc containing digital high-resolution professional photography for each binder.
• Company name must be written on the disc that contains digital copies of photos and entry material.
• Do not include people or animals in the photos you submit for your entry.
• Printed photographs (not photocopies or printouts) must be included in entry binders.
• Projects must be built. One-the-board architectural drawings alone are not eligible. Design-only firms can enter their plans/drawings, as long as the project is built, even if by another company. Photographs of the completed project must be submitted to be eligible.
• Entry of a single project under more than one category is permitted as long as each entry meets each category’s standards. For example, you may enter a house in the Custom Home Under 3,000 sq. ft. category and enter that home’s kitchen in the Kitchen category.
• Firms entering the 2012 Design Excellence Awards must perform at least some jobs that are 100% new residential construction. Firms whose revenue is generated 100% by remodeling are not eligible.
• Projects from Canada and Mexico are eligible.
• Interior design firms are not eligible unless entry is accompanied by a co-entrant signature.
• A single-family-home development is eligible only if all homes in the development are custom.
• By submitting an application and entry binder, the entrant acknowledges that wording from an application or binder might be used as submitted or in edited version as determined by RD+B staff.
• Provide complete information. Complete all sections, provide photos and floor plans, and make sure you, any co-entrant and the photographer have dated and signed all release forms. DO NOT put your name or company name on photos, plans, or project or business practice descriptions. This ensures the judges remain impartial when judging entries.

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