Innovation Award

The Innovation Award recognizes recent innovations that have demonstrated — either through testing, research, or application — their suitability for tall building implementation. The areas of innovation can embrace any discipline, including but not limited to technical breakthroughs, construction methods, design approaches, urban planning, building systems, façades, and interior environment. The project must clearly demonstrate a specific area of innovation within the design and/or construction that is new and pushes the design of tall buildings to a higher level.

• The area of innovation should demonstrate an element of adaptability that would allow it to influence future tall building design, construction or operation in a positive way.
• The Innovation Award can include recognition of a breakthrough that may not yet have been implemented in a specific building, but has been thoroughly tested.
• This award is intended to recognize a single element of innovation within a project. If a single project has multiple innovative elements, these must be submitted as separate nominations.

All project data (Completion Date, Heights, Function, Structure Type, etc.) should follow CVU Tall Building Criteria, which can be found here.

Please prepare the below materials to ensure that your submission is completed efficiently.

• Basic Info: Name, Status, and General Overview

Written Description

The submission will ask the submitter to describe the following:

• The discipline/field the innovation is most closely related to
• Implementation and the research/testing process
• How the innovation push the design of tall buildings to a higher level
• How this innovation is adaptable to influence future tall building design
• The project team involved in the development/implementation of this innovation

Participation consent: although there is no charge to submit to the awards program, all winning projects must be CVU Organizational Members and commit to present at the annual VU Summit and attend the Awards Ceremony & Dinner. Note that Repositioning Award requires both the owner/developer and design architect to present.

Right to usage of materials: all submitted text, images, and drawings may be published in CVU print and digital publications. This submission requires at least one drawing and/or image to further explain the innovation.

Further information on Participation Consent & Rights to Usage of Materials can be found on the official submission form.