The SFE Façade 2024 Design and Engineering Awards are split across 6 categories. Each category welcomes both UK and International entries, recognising and celebrating excellence in façade engineering domestically and abroad.
Entries close on Friday 31 May 2024.
Make sure you check the competition rules before you enter
Please email [email protected] for any questions regarding your entry.
2024 Categories
Click on each category to see the entry requirements
New for 2024. This category is for the UK and International Special Structures Project Award, for recognition of smaller envelope interventions such as a bridge, canopy or sculpture demonstrating. Projects shall be <400m2 in surface area.
All entries must demonstrate excellence in technical design and/or research that has made a significant contribution to the discipline of façade engineering. Any façade contract practically complete between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2023 can enter. This category recognises the work and dedication of the full project team and can be entered by any or all members of that team.
All entries must demonstrate excellence in technical design and/or research that has made a significant contribution to the discipline of façade engineering. Any façade contract practically complete between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2023 can enter. This category recognises the work and dedication of the full project team and can be entered by any or all members of that team.
This award recognises and celebrates an innovation that has made a significant contribution to digital engineering within the façade industry, either in the UK or internationally. This may be a piece of software, a project process or other innovation that shows ground-breaking thought. It can be a piece of software that is used exclusively within the company or available to external parties.
This category recognises the next generation of façade engineers who have more than two and less than five years of related experience, as of the date of the Awards, 6 November 2024. The judges will be assessing the individual’s contributions to the industry and their organisation. The application should give examples of the impact the individual has had on their key project/s from performance, innovation, collaboration, quality and client satisfaction perspectives. The application should describe how the individual has advanced their knowledge across the range of façade design considerations.
Please note: if you entered the awards in 2023 your entrant will be disqualified and not shortlisted.
Shortlisted entrants will be invited to attend an interview with the judges on:
Façade product of the year award aims to recognise and celebrate originality and ingenuity of a product introduced in the façade industry in the last 3 years that solves a major problem or addresses a key issue. The product could be a material, component, hardware, software or an equipment but essentially is associated with the façade design and engineering. We will be evaluating the entry for its contribution to innovation, sustainable design and ability to meet the current day demands such as modularity, low embodied carbon, ease of handling and installation, robust testing and certification, improving a said performance (entrant to define) and addressing the service life and maintenance issues. The entrant to indicate the evolution of the product to show the progression from concept to manufacturing. Submissions in these categories must be available to market by January 1, 2024 to qualify.
Other 2024 Awards
These awards will be compiled of the top scores from the entry forms, masters dissertation and your nomination.
Included in the entry forms include questions specifically tailored to reward sustainability in façade engineering.
Successful entries will be shortlisted upon the judges discretion.
This category will judge projects on the fabric performance, and innovative approaches to the environmental design whilst promoting the health and well-being of occupants.
This award recognises and rewards someone who has demonstrated an outstanding contribution to the Façade Engineering industry.
Nominations can be sent to [email protected]. Please include the name and explain in no more than 100 words why they are a deserved recipient.
Included in the entry forms include questions specifically tailored to reward innovative thinking in façade engineering.
Successful entries will be shortlisted upon the judges discretion.
This category recognises the work and dedication of the full project team and can be entered by any or all members of that team.
This award is awarded to the individual who received the top scoring dissertation at the UWE MSc for Façade Engineering.
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