IWA Project Innovation Awards

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About the Awards

ELIGIBILITY

The PIA is open to applicants who may be individuals, and companies, organisations, governmental bodies, or any combination of the above, whether or not the organization is a member of IWA.

AWARD CATEGORIES

Entries are submitted for competition in one of the following six awards categories:

•	Applied Research Projects
	Research of an applied nature that advances the state if the art in water/wastewater engineering, including research leading to new improved water/wastewater engineering equipment (process, control, instrumentation, etc.).
•	Design Projects
	Design of water/wastewater facilities including projects delivered by alternate methods, such as design-build or design-build-operate.
•	Operations/Management
	Operations or management of water/wastewater or related facilities, a pollution programme, or environmental regulatory programmes (local, national or regional).
•	Planning Projects
	Planning related to a water/wastewater control project, system or water/wastewater management facilities or activities.
•	Small Projects
	Any applied research, planning, design or operations/management work as defined in the above categories related to a potential capital expenditure of less than €4 million or an operations/management activity with an annual budget of less than €400,000.
•	Marketing and Communications
	Marketing and communications related to a water/wastewater project, operations/management of related facilities, customer service activities, or public education campaigns.

REGIONAL BASES

The projects first compete at the regional rounds in one of the following regional bases, i.e. Asia Pacific; East Asia; Europe and West Asia; and North America¹. A project may be entered into a regional base if it satisfies either of two conditions: - (a) project was executed in a location within the regional base, or (b) the company or organisation responsible for the project is based within the regional base.

There will only be one winning prize awarded for each project category in each region. Depending on the scores of the other entries, the judging panel may grant Honour Awards to other deserving entries in the same category.

All wining and honor award projects in the regional bases will automatically be advanced to the global awards competition where they compete with the winning and honor award projects from the other regional bases to become the overall Grand Award Winner.

There will only be one winning prize awarded for each project category in each region. Depending on the scores of the other entries, the judging panel may grant Honour Awards to other deserving entries in the same category.

All wining and honor award projects in the regional bases will automatically be advanced to the global awards competition where they compete with the winning and honor award projects from the other regional bases to become the overall Grand Award Winner.

¹The North America Regional Award is conducted through the American Academy of Environmental Engineers (AAEE).

REGIONAL AND GLOBAL AWARD CEREMONIES

To maximize profiling opportunities for the PIA programme and to celebrate the achievements of the winning projects, regional award ceremonies will be held during major international events in 2011 and 2012.

The Global Project Innovation Awards Ceremony will be held at the 2012 IWA World Water Congress in Busan, Korea in September 2012, which is expected to be attended by more than 3,500 water professionals from around the world ;

COMPETITION TIMELINE

Regional Base	Submission Period	Judging Period	Announcement of Winners
Europe and West Asia	15 Apr 2011 – 15 Jan 2012	Jan 2011 – Feb 2012	March 2012
East Asia	Dec 2011 – Feb 2012	Feb – Apr 2012	Mid Apr 2012
Asia-Pacific	Jun 2011 – Feb 2012	Feb – Apr 2012	Mid Apr 2012
Global	Apr – May 2012	Jun – Jul 2012	Mid Jul 2012