The GE Edison Award competition is open to professional designers, architects, engineers and consultants. Entries are judged on the following criteria: functional excellence; architectural compatibility; effective use of state-of-the-art lighting products and techniques; appropriate color, form and texture revelation; energy effectiveness and cost effectiveness.
Projects scoring the highest number of points will qualify to receive Awards of Merit or Awards of Excellence. The GE Edison Award Winner is selected from among the Awards of Excellence.
The Award for Residential Lighting Design - a category first added in 2005 - is judged on the same criteria mentioned above and presented to the project that best exemplifies excellence in lighting design within a residential application.
Awards for Sustainable Design are given to those projects that demonstrate exemplary, sustainable lighting design. These designs, while providing high quality lighting, should minimize the use of energy, maximize the use of daylighting, avoid skyward illumination and ensure system durability and maintainability.
All entrants will be invited to an awards ceremony, which will take place Tuesday, 27 May, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA on the evening prior to the opening of LightFair International.
All lighting projects, submitted for award consideration, must have been completed between 1 January 2007, and 31 December 2007. Entries must be received by 10 January. Further details are available at www.GEEdisonAward.com.
(Jim Evans)
