CEDIA has announced the shortlist of finalists for all project categories in the 2017 CEDIA Awards, acknowledging the highest level of integration work across media rooms, home cinemas, home and superyacht installations in the EMEA region.
Matt Nimmons, managing director at CEDIA EMEA, commented: “We have been overwhelmed with the standard of the submissions this year.”
“The standard increases every year and it’s great to see the amount of professionalism and technical excellence our members continue to offer their clients. I’d like to thank all of our technical judges this year for their support and dedication throughout the process so far and we look forward to announcing the winners in September.”
The shortlist for the 2017 awards is as follows:
Best Media Room £20,000 and under
Twentytwo Integration (UK)
Inspired Dwellings (UK)
Best Media Room £20,000 - £80,000
Sound Sense (India)
Life Emotions (Portugal)
Best Media Room £80,000 and over
Luxury Engineering (Russia)
Synergy Technologies (Pakistan)
Best Home Cinema £40,000 and under
Cyberhomes (UK)
Finite Solutions (UK)
Philharmonic (UK)
Best Home Cinema £40,000 - £120,000
New Wave AV (UK)
Sound Sense (India)
Pyramid AV (UK)
Bespoke Home Cinemas (UK)
Smartcomm (UK)
Best Home Cinema £120,000- £240,000
Clever Association (UK)
Finite Solutions (UK)
Best Integrated Home £120,000 and Under
Brownhen Solutions (UK)
Cyberhomes (UK)
S.K Lifestyle Integration (Cyprus)
Twentytwo Integration (UK)
Inspired Dwellings (UK)
Best Integrated Home £120,000 - £240,000
Pyramid AV (UK)
Archimedia (Dubai)
Best Integrated Home £240,000 - £360,000
Clearly Automated (UK)
BNC Technology (South Africa)
Smartcomm (UK)
Best Integrated Home £360,000 and over
NV Integration (UK)
Henri (France)
Finite Solutions (UK)
Best Innovative Solution
Perfect Integration (UK)
Clever Association (UK)
Teksclusive (UK)
Inspired Dwellings (UK)
Best Auto, Marine and Aircraft Project
Archimedia (Dubai)
Luxury Engineering (Russia)
Best Special Project
Home Systems (Ukraine)
Clever Association (UK)
Best Lighting Control and Installation
Grahams (UK)
Pyramid AV (UK)
Best Multiple Dwelling Unit Design
Smartcomm (UK)
Mosaic AV (UK)
Best Showroom
Sound Sense (India)
Henri (France)
Home Systems (Ukraine)
All shortlisted entries will be automatically placed into two additional sub-categories, Best Documentation and Best Dressed Rack. The finalists for all categories will go through a second round of judging, which will take place next month at the CEDIA HQ in St Neots.
CEDIA is still accepting entries in the Trade Supplier Categories, with submissions closing on Wednesday 12 July, 2017.
The winners of this year’s awards will be revealed at the black-tie awards ceremony on Friday 29th September at Warner Bros. Studio Tour London - The Making of Harry Potter. This year’s sponsors include Bowers & Wilkins, IFSEC International, Meridian Audio, OneAV and The Cinema Designer.
For a limited time only, CEDIA is offering tickets to attend this year’s awards ceremony at a discounted early bird rate. Single member tickets are priced at £175 (+VAT) and a table of ten people costing £1,500 (+VAT). For non-members, a single ticket is £225 (+ VAT) and a table of ten people costing £2,000 (+ VAT). This offer is available until Friday 30 June, 2017.
Tickets can be booked online at www.cediaawards.org/tickets.