2016 ACT Excellence Awards

The NECA ACT Excellence Awards are open to all current members of NECA ACT.

The NECA Excellence Awards are the most prestigious award offered in the industry.  They celebrate excellence in quality, technology, innovation, management and commercial expertise.  Importantly, the Awards provide contractors with the opportunity to demonstrate their top projects to peers, clients, industry and the community.

So why not enter a project?  Just think about the benefits of having your company being showcased at the Awards presentation evening in front of 300 key people from our industry.  This about what this exposure will do for your business and in particular how this will benefit your relationship with your clients and employees.  The best part is that it is free to enter.

 

About the Awards

As in previous years, there are categories to suit all types and sizes of projects and you don’t have to be a large company or have a big project to win.

This year, NECA ACT has introduced additional categories which are ACT specific.  This is to open the awards to more members and to have categories that have particular relevance to contractors in the ACT.

 

The 2016 categories are:

 

 

NATIONAL CATEGORY

ACT STATE CATEGORY

1

Domestic Residence – Contract value is less than $1m

Domestic Residence (Small) – Contract value is less than $100k  *

2

Small Contracting Business

Includes Small Electrical/Manufacturing Businesses

3

Energy Efficiency and Environment

 

4

Lighting

 

5

Industrial – Small  – Contract value is less than $1m

Includes automation projects.

6

Industrial – Medium  – Contract value is between $1m and $8m

7

Industrial – Large – Contract value is more than $8m

8

Voice/Data

Communications/Data – Small – Contract value is less than $1m  **

Communications/Data – Medium – Contract value is between $1m and $2m **

Communications/Data – Large – Contract value is more than $2m **

9

Commercial – Small  – Contract value is less than $1m

 

10

Commercial – Medium  – Contract value is between $1m and $8m

 

11

Commercial – Large – Contract value is more than $8m

 

12

 

Security  – This category is open to applicants installing electronic security systems in both domestic and commercial premises.  For example, intruder alarm, access control, CCTV, intercom, key management, perimeter detection, system integration. ***

13

 

Fire - This category is open to applicants responsible for, but not limited to, the installation of Fire Protection, Fire Prevention and Suppression systems. ***

 

*National Representative will be selected at the Judge’s discretion from nominations in both the small and general Domestic Category.

**Known at the National Level as Voice/Data. National Representative will be selected at the Judge’s discretion from the Small, Medium and Large categories.

***ACT Category Only. Winner will NOT PROGRESS to National Awards

 

Submitting Nominations – Online System

The nomination process is being managed by an on-line system.  Select the category that best suits your project and start the online nomination process.  To nominate visit the 2016 NECA ACT Excellence Awards online nomination system.

To nominate in one of the newly introduced ACT categories, where there is a corresponding National Category, your project can be nominated using the on-line system.   To nominate in the categories of Security or Fire, please contact the ACT Office.  Nominations for these categories are to be submitted in PDF format directly to the ACT office with supporting documents and project photos provided on disk or USB.

Click here for nomination template for Security

Click here for nomination template for Fire

Additional information regarding the ACT Categories can be found by clicking here

You are guaranteed that the on-line system is flexible, secure and user focused.  The nomination guide can be downloaded by clicking here. Please note that there is no application form for the Excellence Awards – this nomination guide includes the Apprentice Awards also.

 

Criteria

A detailed guide to the criteria, which the judges will consider for each category is available for download from the  2016 NECA ACT Excellence Awards online nomination system

Please ensure you refer to the judging criteria when completing your nomination/s.

 

Judging

A panel of independent judges access your submission.  In most cases, an on-site inspection of the project is also performed.

 

Presentation Evening

If you are a finalist:

  • Your project will be displayed at the Excellence Awards evening to be held Friday 19th August 2016 at the Hotel Realm, Canberra.

You will also be provided with a video clip of your project which you can use for your own marketing (eg on your website).  To view all winning projects from the 2015 presentation click here

 

Completed submissions must be received by NECA ACT by close of business on Wednesday 1st June 2016.

The judges and NECA reserve the right to transfer entries into the category they deem appropriate, withhold an award in a category if it is deemed the nominations do not meet the standard required or reject incomplete applications.

Neither the judges nor NECA will enter into any correspondence regarding the judging process.

Please contact Colleen Clark at NECA ACT, act@neca.asn.au or 02 6280 5580 if you require further information.

 

 

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