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Wey Celebrating excellence
‘I can think of no better way to highlight
excellence in the
fi eld of installation than an event
where the industry can get together and toast its successes’
The fi rst InstallAwards are almost upon us. In this, the 15th year of publication of Installation, I can think of no better way to highlight excellence in the fi eld of installation than an event where the industry can get together and toast its successes. Ahead of the InstallAwards ceremony when we reveal the winners, this supplement gives you the opportunity to fi nd out about the fi nalists for each of the three awards in our fi ve vertical categories. What makes a great installation project? You need a vision of how to fulfi l the client’s brief. You need to design a system that will deliver the required functionality, choosing the appropriate products for the sources, the endpoints and the connectivity. You’ll probably need to draw on the expertise of diff erent kinds of people. And fi nally you need to bring that design to life on site. So rather than simply making a single award in each category, we’ve devised the InstallAwards to provide a more holistic approach, which better refl ects the way projects work. The Best Project Awards speak for themselves – rewarding those projects that do the job well, meeting or exceeding the client’s expectations, providing an elegant solution that’s within the budget. The Teamwork Awards acknowledge that the most successful projects
generally require input from a wide variety of people: consultants, acousticians, product specialists, programmers and others. And then there are the unexpected problems that can crop up mid-project and require creative thinking and possibly calling in the odd favour to solve. The third side of the triangle is the Star Product Awards. Here, we’re
rewarding products that do the best job in the context of their specifi c projects. So the judges weren’t necessarily looking for top-of-the-range, all- singing, all-dancing equipment – they were looking for well-specifi ed products that provided a superior solution to the alternatives. A word about the way the InstallAward winners are chosen: we invited entries over a period of six weeks and shortlisted the best ones in each category. We then recruited a panel of independent expert judges from across the industry – over two dozen people from the fi elds of consultancy, distribution, manufacturing and journalism – who pored over the entries and cast their votes. Having occasionally been a judge for other awards in the past, I know that it’s not always the glamorous task that it might appear – so I’d like to express my heartfelt thanks to all our judges for contributing their time and expertise to the InstallAwards. Many thanks also to the companies who are sponsoring various aspects of
the event: we greatly value your support for this new initiative. There are also two special awards, designed to mark the 15th anniversary of this publication. Called the 15 Years of Achievement Award and the 15 Years of Excellence Award, they recognise outstanding work by an individual and a company respectively. Turn to page 46 to learn whose work we are celebrating. The InstallAwards are held on the evening of Thursday 12 June at the Hilton
London Wembley. At the time of writing, there are still a few seats available: go to
www.installawards.com/buy-tickets or call Sara Mather on +44 (0)20 7354 6001. I do hope you can join us – it promises to be a great and memorable night.
Paddy Baker, Editor, Installation –
paddy.baker@
intentmedia.co.uk
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