About the award : This award recognises businesses that demonstrate outstanding overall performance, strong leadership, and a commitment to excellence across all areas of the organisation. It celebrates companies that consistently deliver high standards in customer service, operational performance, innovation, employee development, and sustainable business growth. 

Who should enter : The award is open to businesses of all sizes operating within the glass and glazing industry that can demonstrate measurable success and a positive impact on customers, employees, and the wider industry. 

Judges will look for evidence of:

• Strong business growth and financial performance
• Excellent customer service and client satisfaction
• Innovation in products, services, or operations
• Investment in people, training, and workplace culture
• High standards of quality, safety, and compliance
• Effective leadership and strategic vision
• Commitment to sustainability and continuous improvement

Entries should demonstrate how the business has achieved success while maintaining high professional standards and contributing positively to the glazing industry.

Please read the basic criteria information before entering to ensure your entry is eligible.

About the award: Retaining existing customers often comes down to more than just product. Customer service is essential in building and maintaining healthy, profitable relationships. 

Who should enter: This award recognises companies who go the extra mile to offer exemplary customer service and is open to all types and size of business who can demonstrate how they systematically offer the best service they can.

Please read the basic criteria information before entering to ensure your entry is eligible.

About the award: This award recognises a business that has successfully leveraged digital technology to transform its operations, improve customer experience, increase efficiency, and drive business growth. It celebrates organisations that have embraced innovation and demonstrated measurable benefits through the implementation of digital tools, systems, or processes. 

Who should enter: The award is open to businesses of all sizes that have introduced digital solutions within areas such as manufacturing, installation, customer service, sales, project management, training, data analytics, or business operations. 

 Judges will look for evidence of:

• Successful implementation of digital technologies or systems
• Improved operational efficiency and productivity
• Enhanced customer experience and engagement
• Measurable business benefits and return on investment
• Innovation in the use of digital tools and data
• Effective management of change and employee adoption
• Long-term impact on business performance and competitiveness

Entries should clearly demonstrate the challenge faced, the digital solution implemented, the outcomes achieved, and how the transformation has delivered tangible value to the business, its employees, and its customers.

Please read the basic criteria information before entering to ensure your entry is eligible.

About this award: This award recognises an outstanding sales and marketing campaign, programme, or initiative that has delivered measurable results for a business within the glass, glazing, and fenestration industry. It celebrates creativity, strategic thinking, customer engagement, and commercial success through activities that have enhanced brand awareness, generated leads, increased sales, or strengthened customer relationships. 

Who should enter:  The award is open to manufacturers, installers, fabricators, suppliers, and service providers that have implemented a successful sales or marketing initiative within the qualifying period.

Judges will look for evidence of:

• Clear objectives and a well-defined strategy
• Creativity and innovation in campaign design and execution
• Effective use of marketing channels, including digital platforms
• Strong customer engagement and audience reach
• Measurable commercial results, such as increased sales, leads, or market share
• Demonstrable return on investment (ROI)
• Alignment with wider business goals and brand values
• Lasting impact on business performance and customer relationships

Entries should clearly outline the challenge or opportunity, the approach taken, the activities delivered, and the results achieved. Particular consideration will be given to initiatives that demonstrate originality, measurable success, and a positive contribution to business growth within the glazing sector.

Please read the basic criteria information before entering to ensure your entry is eligible.

About this award : Staff training and development is the bedrock of a successful business. Ensuring individuals are suitably qualified to perform, and given the opportunity to improve and progress is a must in today’s competitive business environment. This award is designed to reward those that have been seen to excel in this area, whether as an individual completing and gaining a qualification, or as a manager implementing schemes that have seen trainees or apprentices flourish. 

Who should enter: This category is open to companies that embrace the training and development ethic in house, or institutions that specialise in this subject and can demonstrate tangible success through results.

Your submission should include evidence of:

• Improved performance
  
• Any special challenges or constraints experienced in the development of the initiative and how they were overcome
• Examples of training materials used
• Successful application and the impact 

Please read the basic criteria information before entering to ensure your entry is eligible.

About the award: The demands now being put on the glass, glazing and hardware companies in the commercial sector are unprecedented. As architects and construction companies seek to allow more and more light into a building, so the design, comfort and security standards are being continually tested.

Who should enter :  Companies, partners and collaborations involved in exceptional commercial projects. 

Please read the basic criteria information before entering to ensure your entry is eligible.

About this award : This award recognises outstanding achievement in the delivery of retrofit glazing and fenestration projects that improve the energy efficiency, comfort, sustainability, and performance of existing buildings. It celebrates organisations, teams, and projects that demonstrate excellence in planning, specification, installation, customer outcomes, and compliance with industry standards. 

Who should enter: The award is open to glazing contractors, installers, manufacturers, housing providers, retrofit specialists, and project teams involved in the refurbishment and upgrade of residential, commercial, or public-sector buildings. 

Judges will look for evidence of:

• Successful delivery of high-quality retrofit glazing solutions
• Measurable improvements in energy efficiency and building performance
• Excellent workmanship and installation standards
• Compliance with relevant regulations and retrofit best practices
• Positive outcomes for building occupants and customers
• Innovation in products, processes, or project delivery
• Effective collaboration between project partners and stakeholders
• Contribution to sustainability and carbon reduction objectives

Entries should clearly demonstrate the project’s objectives, challenges, solutions implemented, and measurable results. Particular consideration will be given to projects that showcase innovation, customer satisfaction, and a significant positive impact on the performance and longevity of existing buildings.

Please read the basic criteria information before entering to ensure your entry is eligible.

About the award: The category is open to any component supplier of any size or market sector. This award recognises companies who may only serve a niche market, or companies who would not be able to fit into the other categories.

Who should enter : Suppliers of critical components, parts or solutions.

Please read the basic criteria information before entering to ensure your entry is eligible.

About this award: Fabricators are a crucial part of the manufacturing process and this award recognises excellence in this field. Always a popular category. For those that are selected as a finalist in this category, they will receive a site visit from one of the judges. 

Who should enter: This category is open to window fabricators of any material, including composites, aluminium, PVC-u or timber. Any size of business can enter. While the amount of windows you produce is important, it is not vital and it is how you run your business, how it has grown, the quality of workmanship, your achievements to date and how you expect to continue in the future that interests the judges.

Please read the basic criteria information before entering to ensure your entry is eligible.

About this award: This award celebrates the very best window, door and conservatory installation companies. The judges will be looking for information about the success of your business, how it has grown, your achievements over the last 18 months and your plans for the future. For those that are selected as a finalist in this category, they will receive a site visit from one of the judges.

Who should enter: This is open to installers of any size including conservatory installers, installers of any product or material, all disciplines and importers of glass.

Please read the basic criteria information before entering to ensure your entry is eligible.

About the award: This award seeks to identify outstanding new and innovative products making major inroads to improving overall building performance, as well as making significant contributions to the company balance sheet.

Who should enter: Judges will consider any product that improves building performance and will be looking for evidence of:

• Research, testing, development 
• Innovation in design, technology and/or application
• Improvement over existing products in terms of performance
• Use of recycled materials and recyclability of the product
• Performance in operation as well as factory or laboratory test results
  
• Clear product technical information for specifiers, designers, installers and operators

Please read the basic criteria information before entering to ensure your entry is eligible.

This award will be presented to an inspirational individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the glass and glazing industry. Please nominate an individual you feel would be worthy of such an honour. 

This award is open for nominations of industry professionals and individuals dedicated to advancing the glass and glazing industry.

Please note : You can not nominate yourself

Please read the basic criteria information before entering to ensure your entry is eligible.

About this award: The Rising Star Award is intended to recognise an emerging leader in the glass and glazing industry whose record reflects ongoing and exceptional growth, increased levels of leadership, responsibility, and sphere of impact. While eligible nominees have not yet reached a senior- or chief-level position, their track-record reflects a strong career trajectory with the possibility of forward advancement and potential for appointment at the highest levels in the industry.

Nomination requirements : The nominator will need to summarise the nominee's achievements, growth and accomplishments in sufficient detail to document why this individual should be considered as a "rising star" in the glass and glazing industry.Nominations must contain sufficient information to inform the judges, without additional research .

Please note: Self nominations are not permitted.

Please read the basic criteria information before entering to ensure your entry is eligible.

About this award : Do you have a member of staff who works tirelessly for your organisation, who always goes the extra mile, but who doesn’t make a big song and dance about it? Is there someone in your company, whether they work on the shop floor, the boardroom, or anywhere in-between, who you think should get much wider recognition for what they do for the business? The winner will receive a trophy on stage plus Champagne Lunch for Two at Gordon Ramsay's Savoy Grill.

Nomination requirements : Simply nominate the employee who you think should be recognised with the ‘Unsung Hero’ award, outlining what he or she does in your company and tell us why you think they should win.

It doesn’t matter if they have worked for your company for a couple of years or a couple of decades; the overriding factor will be the difference they make to your business. While there is no upper limit on time spent working for a company, nominated employees should have worked at the firm for at least 12 months and still be working for the firm at the time of entry.

Please read the basic criteria information before entering to ensure your entry is eligible.