2009 WAN Education Sector Awards

About the awards

The WAN Education Award is a major international competition. If you have designed an educational facility, whether a school, university, college or academy that has been completed during the last three years, you can now enter for the 2009 awards

Judging criteria

The jury will judge entries on a number of factors including originality, innovation, form and special quality, sustainability and context, but the following two areas will carry the most weighting.

1. How your design addressed the key elements of the brief.

2. Specific examples of how your building has enhanced the education process.

Promotion

The WAN awards are gaining interest from local, national and international media around the world and last year’s House of the Year Award became the talking point of the global architectural community. A fact proved by the visitors to the WAN website which served over 3.6 million page impressions in one month alone

In addition, selected projects will be entered into our Featured Projects section, a weekly focus on educational buildings that will run during the awards to generate even more exposure for participants. Each week our editorial team will choose one project to feature in News Review.

Please be aware that if your project is chosen for this feature this does not automatically enter you through to the longlist of 25 buildings, this is a separate judging process.

Past winners have reported that the awards high profile and the publicity they received have contributed noticeably to their business success.

The competition stages

A long list of 25 entries will initially be selected after the closing date, further details of the project: plans, sections, elevations and more technical information will then be requested from these entrants. From the 25, a shortlist of six will be selected before an overall winner is chosen. The winning entry will receive £1,000 cash prize and an award plaque. The remaining five from the shortlist and any other schemes that the judges deem suitable will be listed as “commended”. All entries will be published on WAN and the winner and shortlisted entries will be featured in a special edition of News Review which reaches over 125,000 property developers, architects, consultants and organisations in 210 countries.

The Format

The format for the initial submission is one jpeg image 385px wide and a 250 word summary of the project including information on how your design addressed the key elements of the brief and specific examples of how your building has enhanced the education process. Please include The date of completion must be properly declared. If your project is long-listed, you will be asked for more information.

Deadline

The closing date for the Education Sector Awards will be the 28th February 2009

Cost

The entrance fee is £350 but an early registration price of £295 GBP/$419.09 USD/$664.79 AUD/$522.09 CAD/ 327.11 EURO is available for entries made before 6th February.

How to enter:

You are invited to submit your entry online - you can do this via the ‘Visit Backstage’ button on the WAN homepage: www.worldarchitecturenews.com

If you are already registered you will be able to click “login” and use your existing registration code and password.

If you are registering for the first time you will need to click the “register” button and complete the registration form. You will then be sent a registration code and password by email, which you can use to log in to “Backstage”. (Please check your spam folder if you do not receive this immediately.)

Once logged in, you can submit your entry using the “Purchase Award Credits” link on the left side of the login page - select the number of projects you wish to enter using the drop-down menu and click “Submit” - this will re-direct you to the online payment screen.

When the payment is complete you will then have the option to upload your project as a competition entry (another link will appear on the left of the login page.)

Alternatively, if you prefer, you can submit your project by email and send payment by cheque.

Please email submissions and direct any questions or problems regarding entries / registration to [email protected]

Please make cheques payable to WAN.

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