Eligible Candidates:
- Architects / Architectural Design Teams
- Engineers
- Architectural Technicians
Adjudication Criteria:
- Design, process maximizes stakeholder involvement
- Design process meets expected timelines
- Positive relationship between cost estimation and final cost
- Design meets intended purpose(s) / program needs
- Design optimizes opportunities for energy efficiency
- Design meets unique and / or creative architectural goals in
conferencing to site and community
- Design optimizes multi-use spaces
-Design showcases revitalization of single purpose facilities into
multi-purpose facilities
- Design optimizes multi-operational goals
- Design goes beyond intended formation in adhering value-added
opportunities (maximize safety, social spaces, access, convenience for
users, revenue centres)
- Design optimizes opportunities for capital and operational
partnerships
- Design results in sustainable operating advantages
- Integration of special populations
Eligible Candidates:
- Land Developers
- Urban & Regional Planners
- Recreation Planners
Adjudication Criteria:
- Promotion of personal, family and community roles in
design
- Design optimizes opportunities for physical, social and emotional
advancement
- Design promotes social capital, active lifestyles and environmental
sustainability
- Design provides innovation in parks, open spaces, natural environments
and multi-use connectivity within and between other areas, parks and
neighbourhoods
- Design optimizes public safety
- Design follows principles of "smart planning" as they apply to urban
and regional communities
- Standards of design (streetscapes, storm water management, public
utility lots) are well integrated and designed to optimize opportunities
for recreation and nature appreciation
Eligible Candidates:
- Recreation
product designs / inventions (e.g. sporting equipment, arts / crafts
products, playscape / park equipment / fixtures, playgrounds, fitness
equipment, indoor)
- Product Retailers
Adjudication Criteria:
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Product promotes physical, social or emotional wellness
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Product availability vis-a-vis market
of users
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Quality of product relative to
sustained use
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Innovative design – improves upon or
provides new opportunities to recreate
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Product perceived as the best new
brand product/programming in the parks and recreation field that offers
a unique alternative and most exciting design. Product campaign must
have first appeared in consumer print publications with an on-sale date
on or before ( March 31, 2009)
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Product that displayed a creative,
cohesive and consistent brand message in print, digital and point-of
sales purchase materials to market
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Consideration given to the product
that was created to lessen the impact on the environment, whether
through its manufacturing process; materials or usage of the product
itself.
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Awarded the best new brand product
that featured the most exciting designs, increased its brand appeal and
grew its business between __ and __ throughout Alberta.
Eligible Candidates:
Individuals, organizations or companies who market and
/ or provide communications programs, campaigns or advertising ventures
which increase public awareness regarding the positive contribution that
recreation can make to citizens and the life of communities.
Adjudication Criteria:
-Marketing campaign effectively implies and promotes
the benefits / quality of life contributions of parks and recreation by
way or promoting another product or service.
- Success of market strategy in meeting strategic
goals
- Creativity of print and electronic media
- Mass impact of campaign or communications (market penetration)
- Overall production as single entry, series or campaign either in
print, television, and/or internet media for advertising and public
relations.
- Honours excellence in media communication; for advertising and
marketing effectiveness(based on information or responses toward
message, marketing strategies and results)
- Recognizes campaigns that achieved significant market place success
through four creative marketing elements:
- Strategy development
- Creative development
- Refinement
- The direction of media exposure, and demonstration of market
place effectiveness
- Promotes a multi-faceted program to enrich, educate or drive
participation and compels a public call to action
- May include health-related activities, ensuring health community
environments or social inclusions
Eligible Candidates:
- Landscape architects / landscape architect teams
- Engineers
- Urban & Regional Planners
- Landscape Design Technicians
- Recreation Planners
Adjudication Criteria:
- Design
process maximizes stakeholder involvement
-
Design process meets expected timelines
-
Positive relationship between cost estimates and final cost
-
Design meets intended purpose(s) / program needs
-
Design optimizes energy efficiency in operations and opportunity to
minimize environmental
footprint
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Design beyond intended function in addressing value-added opportunities
to maximize safety, provide social interaction, provide convenient
access, addresses operational revenue centres
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Design maximizes opportunities for social , environmental and economic
sustainability
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Design addresses special populations and needs of special groups (e.g.
children and nature, seniors, disabled)
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Design provides for multi-use
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Design enhances opportunities for adjacent landowners and land users
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Design meets and / or exceeds architectural goals through unique /
creative features
Eligible Candidates:
- Building Contractors
- Landscape / Trail Contractors
- Building & Landscape Sub-trades
Adjudication Criteria:
- Budget control and adherence
- Meeting construction schedule
- Provision of value-added construction processes or components (e.g.
reduce costs for materials, energy efficiency)
- Environmental construction practices adhered to
- On site construction management provides safe conditions during
construction
- Excellent and open communications and reporting with design
professionals and clients
- Clean and well maintained construction site
- Quality of construction
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