The Awards Judging Process
The judging panels adhere to the following procedure
- The central judging panel meets to discuss, select and agree upon a long list entrants per category.
- Local site visit teams are arranged, which may include members of the central panel of judges, to visit the site of each long-listed development to meet with senior executives and conduct a detailed inspection. If site visits for regional areas cannot be arranged, video presentations are obtained from entrants.
- The local site visit teams submit their scoring of the developments for presentation at the final judges meeting.
- All site visit and central panel judges must declare any conflict of interest with entrants and are recused from scoring/voting on entries with which they have a conflict of interest.
- At the final judges meeting, the central panel agree upon the final shortlist, which comprises one Winner and up to four Highly Commended.
- The organizers will publicly announce the shortlist one month before the Gala Dinner.
- The Winners will be announced at the Gala Dinner.