Design Buy Build Issue 19 2016 | Page 20

Editor’s Choice CIAT Awards for 2016 This year we are celebrating over 21 years of rewarding the best of the best in Architectural Technology and recognising its development, reach and importance in optimising the design of buildings relating to the function, performance and use, efficiency and effectiveness of their construction and environmental impact and sustainability. against their response to Architectural Technology criteria relating to function, fabric performance and production. The Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists (CIAT) Awards are recognised and regarded as the premier accolades that demonstrate outstanding achievement in Architectural Technology. 2016 Award deadlines and timetable There are two Award categories: ● for projects with no financial limit for The Award for Excellence in Architectural Technology ● for projects with a value no greater than £750k for The Alan King Award. The CIAT Awards for Excellence in Architectural Technology run from 12 February 2016 until 1 July 2016. Why enter the Awards? To gain recognition for you, your practice and your project for its excellence in the technology of architecture. ● They are open Awards, which allows individuals and/or practices from all built environment disciplines to enter for projects of all sizes — there are no restrictions ● The entries are rigorously judged and peer assessed by highly experienced Chartered Architectural Technogists ● Award winners receive promotion across the Institute in print and online and featured on ciat.org.uk ● If your entry is shortlisted you can promote this to your clients, potential clients and all other networks and colleagues and have use of the Awards logo ● Winners and their projects will be featured in a specially printed booklet, the Institute’s magazine AT and through our social media channels. ; Who can enter? Photographs above show winning projects from 2015 Awards These Awards are open to all individuals and/or practices and projects of all sizes (whole, or part of) but which must have been completed within the last five years. Criteria for entry Shortlisted entries are announced on Tuesday 2 August 2016 and the winners and Awards will be announced and presented at the President’s Ball to be held in Southampton on Saturday 12 November 2016. Submissions will be assessed in terms of their design context, concept and creativity To enter the CIAT Awards for 2016, visit – www.ciat.org.uk/en/awards/index.cfm 20