This Award is open to all – individuals and/or any practices – but you must have a CIAT member or an affiliate as part of your team.

Each entry will be assessed against the following criteria:

  • Innovation in practice
  • Innovation in research


Criteria for submission
Submissions will be assessed in terms of their outputs and impact in demonstrating one or more of the following: producing and interpreting new design practices, procedures, products, findings or new material; engaging with new and/or complex problems; developing innovative methods, methodologies and analytical techniques; showing imaginative and creative scope; providing new practices or processes or new methods, interpretations and/or insights; collecting and engaging with novel types of data; and/or advancing theory or the analysis of practice or research.

Each entry will be assessed against the following criteria:

Originality: the extent to which the submission makes an important and innovative contribution in the field of professional practice or research.
Significance: the extent to which the work has influenced, or has the capacity to influence, knowledge or the development and understanding of practice and/or policy.
Rigour: the extent to which the work demonstrates coherence and integrity, and adopts robust and appropriate concepts, analyses, sources, theories and/or methodologies.

In assessing submissions, Judges will be looking for sufficient evidence of at least one or more of the following:

  • rigour regarding design, method, execution and analysis
  • a significant addition to knowledge in the field of practice/research
  • the significance and impact of the submission
  • the scale, challenge and difficulty posed by the research
  • logical coherence of argument and presentation
  • original contribution to practice/research
  • the significance of the work in advancing knowledge, skills, understanding and - in theory - advancing practice, education, management and/or policy
  • the applicability and significance to the relevant practice users and/or research users
  • the potential applicability to changes to practice and/or research.


Submission
A completed application form and a written report of 2,000 words, with annexes and appendices as supporting evidence, in written or graphical formats.

Entry fee
There is a £120 (plus VAT) application fee.

Award
The Winner recieves a trophy, a certificate, and an AT Awards logo.
 

Terms and conditions of entry

The application form must be completed in full in the prescribed format for all entries. Entries submitted without all the criteria for entry (as stated) or after the closing date will not be judged.

Entries must qualify for the period of eligibility as indicated within each category's judging criteria.

CIAT accept no liability for any inaccurate information contained within the submitted entry as it is the responsibility of the applicant to provide accurate information. The building owner and/or client must have given written consent for the AT Award application to be made, depending on the category. Confidentiality will be observed in respect of the information associated with the submitted entry.

All information provided on the entry forms and during the entry process is taken by CIAT in good faith. If any information is subsequently discovered to be false or the recipient is found to have engaged in conduct unbecoming, CIAT reserve the right to cancel the entry and, if after the Awards have been presented and involves a winning entry, to cancel the Award win and publicise reasons to relevant parties. Refunds will not be provided.

CIAT reserves the right to use entry material submitted in published form or online unless requested by the entrant not to.

Whilst you (or the licensors) continue to own the copyright in all works forming part of your entry, by submitting an entry you consent to our use of submitted photographic works in any publication and online, whether or not connected to the Awards you have entered, and you now waive all moral rights in such photographic works. We may allow third parties (e.g. journalists) to use such works for CIAT purposes. If a third party owns the copyright in such works, you confirm that you have obtained their consent to our use and a waiver of their moral rights for these purposes.

By entering, you agree to a representative attending the AT Awards event where the winners in each category will be announced and presented. If no representative is available, CIAT reserve the right to nominate a person to collect the award on your behalf.

Judges reserve the right, without prior consent of the entrants, to move entries to different categories if it is appropriate and to accept or reject entries. Judges reserve the right to not make an award in any category.

The Judges’ decision on all Finalist entries and winners is final and no discussion or correspondence will be entered in to. Please also note that due to the high volume of entries received it is not possible to provide individual feedback for entries that are not shortlisted.

By entering and attending the AT Awards event, you acknowledge that the event or part of it may be filmed by audio, visual, audio-visual or electronic means, or photographed, including photographs of individuals or groups of delegates. You agree to permit CIAT to use and distribute such footage and photographs, which may feature images of you, in all or any media (including social media) whether now known or hereafter to be invented throughout the world in perpetuity for the purposes of advertising, publicity, reporting and otherwise in relation to the exploitation of such recordings and photographs. Please inform the event organiser in writing prior to the event day by email to [email protected] if you do not wish to be included in any individual or group photographs.

 

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