06 UPDATE March 2015
Last chance to enter The InstallAwards return on 4 June and promise to be bigger and better than ever. Find out how you can get involved Following their highly successful debut last year, the InstallAwards are back for 2015 – and there are just a few days left for you to submit your entry. To get involved visit www.installawards.com and complete the form – but you’ll have to hurry, as entries close at midnight on Friday 13 March. We are inviting applications for projects – involving audio, video and/or lighting system integration – in six categories. Permanent or semipermanent projects anywhere in the world may be entered so long as they were handed over to the client between 1 March 2014 and 28 February 2015. Entry to the awards is free and any company or individual can submit up to three entries – either in the same category or across multiple categories. AWARDS CATEGORIES Audience venues This wideranging category includes concert halls, stadiums, cinemas, theatres, museums, visitor attractions, even
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houses of worship – anywhere people have come (and usually paid) to watch and to an extent participate in a ‘show’ in the broadest possible sense, and where their experience of it is enhanced by the installation. Education This category covers installations in schools, colleges and universities – as well as other learning environments such as conference centres and corporate training centres. Corporate and industrial This category covers installations in boardrooms, atriums, control rooms, simulation/visualisation facilities, etc – facilities that are used by people at work, rather than by the public. Hospitality The hospitality category is for installations in hotels, bars, clubs and restaurants: venues where design and ambience is all-important, and the installation makes a significant contribution to delivering the overall effect.
Tickets are now available for the InstallAwards on 4 June. Single seats cost £225, while tables of 10 are currently available for the early bird rate of £1,695. To find out more or to book tickets contact Jessica Farnan on +44 (0)1992 535646, jfarnan@nbmedia.com.
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Residential As well as covering installations in private houses, this category is also open to projects in multi-dwelling units. Retail, transport and public space This category is for projects where the aim of the installation is to inform, influence or entertain people as they shop, travel or undertake other aspects of their daily lives. Unlike the audience venues category, the installation is an adjunct to people’s activity, not at the heart of it. In each category we will be presenting a Best Project Award and a Star Product Award. For the Best Project Award we will be looking for evidence of as many of the following as possible: Technical innovation Elegant design – technical or aesthetic Meeting or exceeding the client brief
Expansion capability/ futureproofing The Star Product Award focuses on a single part of the installation – a product that performs a key role in the overall system design. We’re especially interested in products that provide a new solution for an existing issue. As in 2014, winners will be decided by our panel of independent judges. We will also be presenting an award for Team of the Year, judged from the entries to the six project categories, along with two special accolades: Grand Prix and Lifetime Achievement Award, decided by the Installation team. ON THE NIGHT For 2015, the InstallAwards will move to a new central London location – the Bloomsbury Ballroom, located in Victoria House on Bloomsbury Square. Following the same successful format as the 2014 event, the night will include a drinks reception, threecourse dinner and after party.
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A variety of sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information contact Gurpreet Purewal, sales manager, on +44 (0)20 7354 6000, gpurewal@nbmedia.com or Peter McCarthy, account manager, on +44 (0)20 7354 6000, pmccarthy@nbmedia.com.
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