Entries are now open.
All SFE Façade 2024 Design and Engineering Awards entry categories are free to enter.
Simply choose your entry category from the list below and access the online entry forms.
Don't forget to download your 'Prepare your entry form' for your chosen category in order to get your entry ready for submission.
Check out the entry requirements below.
Entries close on Friday 31 May 2024.
The Awards will take place on Wednesday 6 November at Old Billingsgate.
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 2024 must be new entries and cannot have been entered in any previous year of the awards.
Entries may be considered in categories if additional work was done on the façade between 31 January 2023 and 1 February 2024.
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.
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.
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.