Design Categories - Points to remember

- Anyone can enter – an architect that helped develop the idea, a LABC department or disabled rights group that was impressed by the innovation, or anyone else that was involved in the development.

- Succinctly describe the “challenge” and how the design overcame the difficulties you were presented with. Include drawings or photographs within your document if this will help explain what you did.

- Try to highlight the benefits of your design, especially if it could be more widely adopted by others. For example, will it make buildings even safer? Will it save time and construction costs? Will it make it easier for people to use buildings? Will it result in energy savings, or less noise transmittance?

- Make sure you stress the quality of the construction solution that was developed and include photographs that testify to the quality of the end result.

- Examples are better than generalities. Explaining how a good working relationship overcame a specific problem is better than just stating that there were good working relationships.

- Its beneficial to include input from the customer or the end-user of the project. This could be to show that the project fulfilled their original design brief, or that they appreciated the design and construction features that are the feature of your nomination.