The SFE Façade 2025 Design and Engineering Awards
The Society of Façade Engineering (SFE) and the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineering (CIBSE) have joined forces with Zak to co-locate the SFE Façade Awards and Dinner with the Zak World of Facades London conference for the fourth year running.
The conference, taking place on 5 November 2025 at Old Billingsgate, London, will bring together close to 1,000 professionals from across the globe and will represent one of the largest gatherings of the sector. The awards will take place after the conference and will be judged by an expert panel and be presented at a high-profile award dinner, attended by leaders across the industry.
The SFE Façade 2025 Design and Engineering Awards recognise and reward excellence and achievements in façade engineering, raising the profile of, and drawing attention to, the importance of this discipline. Previous winners have included, Google Bay View in California, USA, Battersea Power Station in London, Bloomberg HQ in London, and the Morpheus hotel in Macau, China.
Event Location
The SFE Facade 2025 Design and Engineering Awards will take place at Old Billingsgate, EC3R 6DX, on Wednesday 5 November 2025.
Nearest underground stations are Monument Station (3 minute walk), Tower Hill (8 minute walk) or London Bridge (9 minute walk).
Taxis are unable to stop on the Lower Thames Street so please plan your journey accordingly.
Entry Rules
Please select the category you wish to enter and look carefully at the entry requirements.
The submission must be accompanied by your organisation’s logo and up to four photographs/images of relevance. By submitting photographs of your project, the SFE have the right to use these images in relevant promotion of this and other events.
No. Entries for 2025 must be new entries and cannot have been entered in any previous year of the awards. This applies for all categories including the Young Facade Engineer of the Year.
Entries may be considered in categories if additional work was done on the façade between 31 January 2024 and 1 February 2025.
Please send all nominations to [email protected].
All nominations need to have a name and 100 words explaining how the nominee has gone above and beyond to promote the art and science of façade engineering.
The judges have the authority to move entries into more applicable categories. Their decision is final and no correspondence will be entered following the Awards.
Receipt of entries will be acknowledged via an automatic email when an online entry form has been submitted.
If you have not received an email please email [email protected] with your project name, company name and name of submitter for the team to invesitagte.
By submitting photographs of your project, SFE have the right to use these images in relevant promotion of this and other events.
The organisers reserve the right to feature/display submitted material in any editorial or promotional work related to the Awards.
If a judge is connected with a nominated project, they will not be involved in the judging of that project.
There is a limit of a maximum of 4 project entries per company, based on location. Judges will review entries from other office locations as a new entry. Companies can submit 1 entry for the digital innovation category, and up to 2 people per company can enter the Young Facade Engineer of the Year category.
Any organisation submitting an entry for more than one category is more than welcome to do, but must use a separate Entry Form per submission.
The Sustainability and Innovation categories are unable to be entered immediately. You must enter any of the categories:
- New Build
- Refurbishment
- Special Structure
There are questions specific to both of these categories. Entrants will be shortlisted based on the scores to these questions.
Please read the entry requirements carefully. All Young Façade Engineer entrants must submit a three-minute video answering the topic 'the role that a façade engineer has to enhance performance, provide value and deliver safety. Please conclude with what you believe to be one of the biggest challenges faced by a façade engineer and what a façade engineer can do to overcome these challenges.'
If you are shortlisted you will be invited to an interview to present on a topic (TBD).
Entries are limited to a maximum character count per section – any other information if required by judges will be requested by Awards committee.
The organisers reserve the right to reject any entry if, in their opinion, it fails to comply with the rules.
Entries previously entered in past years will be disqualified/rejected.
If submitting on behalf of a client, clients must be made aware in advance of any entries that refer to them and the judges may require evidence of client endorsement.
Please only enter one category per project. The judges will advise if this should be considered for additional or an alternative categories.
FAQs
Entries are now closed
You can purchase tickets or tables by contacting a member of our sales team.
We encourage people to ‘dress to impress’. This may include, but is not limited to, traditional dress, cocktail attire, lounge suit or business wear.
Entries will close 19 May 2025. Entries are now closed.
If you have booked a table our team will send a request for your guest names and dietary requirements. Tickets will be sent a week prior to the event.