Award guidelines are subject to change year
to year based on judges' feedback and requests. The guidelines
listed here are for the 2008 competition only.
Welcome to the 2008 Electronic Lifestyles® Awards
Online Submission Process
The CEDIA Electronic Lifestyles® Awards are
the most prestigious form of recognition in the residential
electronic systems industry. These highly sought after awards
are presented each
year to recognize excellence and hard work in the
industry. Acknowledged by industry members and trade publications
worldwide,
the recognition is never-ending. In addition to receiving an
award and being recognized at the annual CEDIA Electronic Lifestyles® Awards
Banquet, winners are announced and recognized in national and
local media, including CEDIA's Electronic Lifestyles® magazine
that is distributed to architects, interior designers, and
builders throughout the United States. In addition, they will
be used in future CEDIA publications and press releases, identified
as Electronic Lifestyles® Award winners, and published in the Electronic Lifestyles® Awards Book.
User Tips:
You do not have to complete all areas at one time. You may
save your information and return to it at a later time. If
you save your information before finishing, an email will
be sent to the email you enter in the contact information
with a code to gain access to your incomplete entry at your
convenience.
Each category has specific submission requirements.
Please review all requirements and be sure to include them
in your final submission. If required information is left out,
your submission will not be accepted.
If you are entering more than one project,
please go to the beginning of the awards entry process for
each project.
New for 2008
From year to year the Electronic Lifestyles® Awards continue to evolve and offer CEDIA members the best opportunities to showcase their achievements. A few new items to note for the 2008 competition:
- NEW! All Photos Will be Uploaded – Like in years past you will be required to submit hard copy 8 X 10 photos and a CD of the required images for your entry. However, this year you will also be uploading your required photos just like you upload your engineering documents. The hard copy photos and disk are essential for the awards judging process and production of the Awards Book and will be back-up resources for the uploaded photos. Please read the photo requirements carefully for each category as some required shots have changed.
- Revised! Theme Category – The Theme Theater category has been revised. Instead, an optional Theme Sub-Category has been added to the Large Home Theater, Small Home Theater, and Media Room categories. If you are entering in one of these categories and you feel your entry also meets the criteria of the Theme Category you can enter in both competitions. If your Large or Small Home Theater and/or Media Room receive a technical award they will move on to the Design Panel who will select a Best Overall Theme Category winner.
- New Award! Best Documentation – There is no specific category to enter for this award. While the technical panel of judges is reviewing all the categories that require engineering documents they will be noting those with outstanding documentation. At the conclusion of all technical judging they will then decide if one entry stands out with extremely well documentation submitted, thereby awarding a Best Documentation Award.
Requirements For All Categories:
- Must
be designed and installed by a full CEDIA residential
electronic system professional member in good standing.
- The
installation must have been completed between May 2007
and May 2008, and cannot have been submitted for a previous
CEDIA Electronic Lifestyles® Awards competition. Member
company show rooms are not allowed for entry. Only paying
clients' homes are allowed in the competition.
- You
may submit up to two entries per category. However, projects
that are entered into the Best Large or Small Home Theater
cannot be submitted into Best Integrated Home or vice versa. Please see individual categories
for specific entry criteria.
- Entry
form, essays, equipment lists, project cost worksheets,
engineering documents (if applicable), and time & expertise
worksheets must be submitted online. Photos, signed
copies of the photography consent of use form, the homeowner
property release form, and the notarized verification form
must be mailed to CEDIA Headquarters by the stated deadline. Please
be sure to label the back of ALL materials sent to CEDIA
headquarters with your confirmation code that is emailed to you.
- Company
name and logo must be removed from all photos and engineering
documents in order to keep your company identity confidential
from the judges.
Deadline For All Categories: All
entries, including photos and forms must be supplied to CEDIA
headquarters no
later than 5:00 P.M. (Pacific) May 2, 2008. Incomplete entries will
not be returned.
Categories:
Sub-Categories:
- Best Theme (See Large Home Theater, Small Home Theater, and Media Room categories for details.)
Entry Fee and Submission Date
The cost of the first entry is $190 and
$125 for each additional entry thereafter. The first entry
fee includes one ticket to the CEDIA EXPO Electronic Lifestyles®
Awards banquet. The banquet ticket will be registered under
the person
submitting
the entry. Only one ticket is allotted regardless if there
are multiple entries.
| In order to receive your ticket the person whose username and password are used must register for CEDIA EXPO by July 31, 2008 or email Katey Schenk at kschenk@cedia.org with the name and Rep ID number of the person who the ticket should go to. If you do not email or the person is not registered by July 31, 2008 you will lose your ticket and it will be released into the general attendee pool. There is only one ticket per company regardless of the amount of entries you have submitted. To purchase additional tickets you must wait until June 2, 2008 when CEDIA EXPO registration opens and order your banquet tickets at www.cedia.org/expo. |
Completed submissions, entry fees, photographs,
and all required information must be received by CEDIA headquarters
no later than 5:00 P.M. (Pacific)
May 2, 2008. Incomplete entries will not be returned and will
have no opportunity for re-submission.
Send your entries to:
CEDIA Headquarters
Attn: Designer Awards for Electronic Lifestyles® Competition
7150 Winton Drive, Suite 300
Indianapolis, IN 46268
Ph: 317-328-4336
Confirmation
Please do not call to verify that your materials
were received. Confirmation will be emailed to you immediately
after you submit your online entry, so please be sure to provide a correct
email address.
Any entry that fails to follow these rules will
be disqualified from the competition. All entries submitted
become the property of CEDIA and will not be returned.
Judging
Winners will be selected by two qualified panels
which will judge on the technical aspect of the project and
the design/aesthetic aspect of the project. The technical panel
is made up of five CEDIA residential electronic systems contractor
members. The design panel is made up of members from the American
Institute of Architects and the American Society of Interior
Designers.
Entries may qualify for a gold, silver, or bronze
technical expertise award from the technical panel. Those
entries that do qualify
will
proceed to the second level of judging
by the design panel. From the gold, silver, and bronze winners,
there will be one award given out for the overall winner
of
each
category.
This
overall
winner
is selected from those entries that have won technical awards
and made it to the second level of judging. The overall winner
will demonstrate both technical and design/aesthetic expertise. Judges reserve the right not to award an entry if they deem it does not merit either technical or design recognition no matter the number of entries within the category.
All judges’ decisions are final. Judges’ credentials
will be made available upon request after CEDIA EXPO 2008.
Please send your written request and a self-addressed, stamped
envelope to CEDIA headquarters, Attn: Designer Awards for Electronic Lifestyles® Competition – Judges.
Announcement of Winners
The winners will be announced at the CEDIA Electronic
Lifestyles® Awards Banquet, Saturday,
September 6, 2008.
Banquet reservations must be made in advance. Banquet registration
begins June 2, 2008. Visit www.cedia.org/expo for
details. At least one representative from your company should
attend the banquet. Winning entries, as well as other entrants,
will be announced to the press and may be used in future CEDIA
publications, identified as 2008 Electronic Lifestyles® Designer Award
winners/entrants. Award winners/entrants may also be featured
in industry and consumer magazines, newspapers, and television
programs. Winners may request a 2008 Electronic Lifestyles® Designer Award
logo and other items to help publicize their award to customers
and local press and also to use in advertising materials. All technical winners will also be featured in Residential Systems magazine. All overall winners will be featured in Home Entertainment magazine.
Electronic Lifestyles® Awards Book
Each entrant will receive a copy of the 2008
Electronic Lifestyles® Awards book free of charge. Winners
will receive two copies. Additional copies are available for
purchase beginning after CEDIA EXPO 2008 in the CEDIA Store at www.cedia.org/store.
Award Use Rules
Recipients of awards presented
by the Custom Electronic Design and Installation Association “CEDIA” are
allowed to display the awards that they have won from CEDIA.
All
display or advertisement of such awards must be truthful
and may not be misleading, inaccurate or ambiguous. Specifically,
but without limitation, the recipients and member companies
who employ individual recipients, must abide by the following
rules.
- Any company which displays or advertises a CEDIA award
must correctly identify the recipient of the award, and
if the recipient
is an individual employee of the company, the company must
state so.
- If the award recipient is an individual, a company
may display the award only so long as that individual
is employed
by the
company, unless the individual grants express permission
for the company to display the award after termination
of the employee’s
employment.
- All awards must be displayed or advertised with
the correct name of the award.
- The entity that displays the award must state conspicuously:
the year in which the award was won, or that the recipient
is a “past recipient” of the award.
- Any display or advertisement of the CEDIA award
may not include any statement or implication of CEDIA’s
approval or sponsorship of the entity displaying the
award or any other
entity, other than the fact that the award was presented
by CEDIA to the recipient.
- No company may display CEDIA’s logo in connection
with displaying or advertising the award unless that company
is a member of CEDIA, or unless the CEDIA logo is incorporated
into the award as presented by CEDIA.
- No entity may alter the appearance of the award
itself or any reproduction of the award for display purposes.
- No award may be duplicated or copied except by photographic
means and then only for inclusion in advertising the award.
|
|
