Design Awards FAQ
Here are the most commonly asked questions.
Businesses or individuals who have specified and/or designed and constructed for a project using polytec products may enter the polytec Design Awards.
Entry to the polytec Design Awards is completely free!
There are a total of four awards.
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Excellence in Design
- Businesses/individuals who designed and/or specified for the project.
- State based project with Finalists and a Winner for each category.
- Categories: Residential and Commercial
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Excellence in Design Build
- Businesses/individuals who designed or specified, and constructed the joinery within the same business for the project.
- State based project with Finalists and a Winner for each category.
- Categories: Residential and Commercial
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National polytec ByDesign Award
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Decided as overall Winner between Winners from awards 1 and 2. Winner will feature on Australia ByDesign Architecture. Airing on Network 10, Australia ByDesign Architecture is a highly successful series that uncovers the outstanding projects in Australian architectural design.
Being architecturally designed is not a prerequisite for an entry being featured in the series.
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People’s Choice Award
- Peers vote for their favourite entries from all projects entered.
- State based with a Winner for each category.
- Categories: Residential and Commercial
- Houses
- Units
- Display homes
- Includes apartment high rises
- Health
- Hospitality
- Retail
- Workplace
- Education
- Sporting
- Public spaces e.g. foyers
Yes, however, polytec must be used in majority of joinery in the project.
To submit a project, you must first sign up for a Business Account. Once verified and approved, you may begin submitting projects. Be sure to read the prompts.
Each project needs to be submitted as one entry, not over several entries, regardless of application. For example, if one residential project is submitted in segments, e.g. bathroom and kitchen, this will be rejected. The project must be entered as a whole.
All submitted photography must be of professional quality, high resolution Jpeg (min 1100x1100px and no larger than 10MB) and must not be watermarked. Please see the winners from the polytec Design Awards 2023 here for examples of image quality.
Your project may have been rejected due to low image resolution, poor image quality, lacking in information or if no polytec products were evident in the submission. If you believe this was done in error, please contact us.
Your account should take no longer than 1 business day to be approved. If it takes longer than this, please contact us for assistance via online chat.
Project submissions are uncapped, so feel free to upload as many as you like!
Voting for People’s Choice Award opens 1st July 2024 and closes 18th October 2024.
Voting is only open for the People’s Choice Award. You can vote a total of 12 times, which must be equally divided between Residential and Commercial projects.
If you are logged in to a business account attached to your projects, you cannot vote on them.
Yes, you will receive votes in your business account, rather than signing up for an individual voter account.
Yes, these can be removed/edited from projects in ‘My Account’.
polytec Design Awards 2024 Submissions Open: 5th February 2024
polytec Design Awards 2024 Submissions Close: Midnight 16th June 2024
People’s Choice Award Voting Open: 1st July 2024
People’s Choice Voting Closes: 18th October 2024
People’s Choice Award announced: 25th October 2024
National polytec ByDesign Award announced: 28th October 2024