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Global Awards Program
2010 Nomination
Deadline for nominations extended through 16 February 2010.


You Could Be Next! Share your innovations and best practices by participating in the Global Awards Program. Three annual awards, each with sub-categories, are listed below for members and non members to submit entries. The submissions in these categories are eligible for consideration for the ultimate award, the Global Innovators Award.

Sustainable Leadership Award
Economic Development Leadership Award
Industry Excellence Award

Call for cases is open from 18 November 2009 until 16 February 2010 for the 2010 Global Awards Program.

The Submission fee for each entry is $195, payable by credit card, and must accompany the online submission.

Which Award? - You must select one.
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Sustainable Leadership
CoreNet Global, in partnership with the International Interior Design Association and the American Institute of Architects / Committees on the Environment and Interior Architecture, celebrate those leaders who understand that today sustainability initiatives in design and development must do more than meet industry standards - their initiatives must rise above current standards, and must point the way to new solutions that reduce our environmental footprint while maintaining the highest standards of industry practice.

For a Guide to Completing the Submission form, click here.

Sustainable Design / Architecture – Commercial or non-profit / government projects by design/client teams whose commercial buildings integrate sustainability practices with design excellence while meeting each organization's objectives for the project. Must be a commercial project built after 2005 and occupied for at least 6 months.
  Commercial
  Non-Profit / Government

Sustainable Design / Interiors – Commercial or non-profit / government project by design / client teams whose commercial interiors integrate sustainability practices with design excellence while meeting the client's objectives for the project. Must be a commercial project built after 2004 and occupied for at least 6 months.
  Commercial
  Non-Profit / Government

Sustainable Development – For profit or non-profit / government submissions on a sustainability initiative that has been integrated within and / or beyond its facility management and real estate activities as exemplified by policies, practices, products and/or services.
  For Profit
  Non-Profit / Government
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Economic Development Leadership
Recognizes leadership, best practices and innovations in economic development representing national, state, regional and local interests. The submissions may represent communities and corporations involved in location decisions involving:
  Leadership and Innovation – Includes creating new strategies, overcoming long-standing obstacles to progress, creating diverse effective community teams, attracting new corporate facilities and jobs, developing web-based tools, design of incentives programs.
  Major Deals and Projects – Includes recruitment of major companies resulting in new capital investments and/or jobs; expansion of existing companies; demonstrated creativity in structuring win-win transactions/deals.
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Industry Excellence (Best Practices)
All CRE industry organizations whose submissions raise the standards for excellence and best practice, described as a management practice and work process that leads to world-class, superior performance and delivers a desired, measurable and sustained result.
  Leadership and Strategy – Motivating and influencing participants in the organization's internal and external networks to achieve the vision, mission, and goals of the enterprise.
  Workplace (may include IT, HR, Legal and Finance) – Shows support and enabling work wherever and whenever it takes place within the context of an interconnected network of businesses
  Service Delivery – An organization's broad reaching approach to service delivery from tactical services to strategy planning, including work performed by parties internal and external to the organization, and contributes to the benefit of clients, customers or stakeholders.
  Asset Management – The management of any enterprise resource that is viewed as an asset, such as human capital, technological, real estate, knowledge or capital and is seen as a contributing factor to the success, profitability and overall competitive advantage of the enterprise.
  Technology (including telecommunications technology) – Information technology that supports and enables work; specifically web-enabled tools and their related platforms and applications, and the devices through which they are accessed.
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Submission Information - All fields are required except as noted.
First Name
Last Name
Job Title
Company
Company 2 (if collaboration)
Address 1
Address 2
City
State/Province
Postal Code
Country
Email
Phone
Fax
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Award Submission Title - Required
Your title should be a short description of the project or initiative.
(You may enter up to 75 characters.)
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Innovation - Required except as noted below.
Briefly describe the innovation.
(You may enter up to 750 characters.)
An innovation brings about a paradigm shift in the way business is done in a rapidly globalizing economy. It reduces a new concept to practice and makes it a commercial success. It concerns the search for and the discovery, experimentation, development, imitation and adoption of new products, processes and organizational set-ups.
Given this definition, provide a brief statement of why you believe your submission describes an innovation.
If your submission is a best practice or other type of initiative, please skip this section.

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Background - Required
(You may enter up to 700 characters.)
Background Information (what is the nature of your organization and the context in which it operates?)

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Collaboration (if applicable)
Required: Sustainable Design Award
(You may enter up to 800 characters.)
Describe why your project represents a collaborative effort between 2 companies, and what processes you developed to ensure both participated fully.

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Initiative - Required
(You may enter up to 800 characters.)
Describe the initiative or innovation, and why you did it. Give emphasis to include key objectives and how these objectives contributed to the overall organizational objectives and strategies.

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Implementation - Required
Describe the implementation.
(You may enter up to 800 characters.)
Describe the implementation, the outcome and its impact. Give emphasis to the leadership challenges and choices made.

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Outcome - Required
(You may enter up to 800 characters.)
Describe the outcome and impact. Show evidence of quantifiable metrics and a statement of external verification if available.

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Post-Occupancy - (Sustainable Development only)
(You may enter up to 800 characters.)
Explain how sustainable practices have been integrated into the building's operations and maintenance.

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Best Practices - Required
(You may enter up to 800 characters.)
Describe best practices that have been a result of this initiative.

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Lessons Learned - Required
(You may enter up to 700 characters.)
Describe challenges, things you would have done differently, serendipities, unexpected successes, etc.

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Support Materials
Please submit a PDF document with additional information you want the judges to know about your project. Text size no smaller than 12 point type, 1.5 inch spacing. You may include graphs, charts, photos, additional information to support your case.

PDF format ONLY. Must comply with the guidelines indicated.

  • Sustainable Design/Architecture - 7 pages maximum, not to exceed 2MB.
        See the SLADD Guide for details.
  • Sustainable Design/Interiors - 7 pages maximum, not to exceed 2 MB.
        See the SLADD Guide for details.
  • Sustainable Development - 3 pages maximum, not to exceed 2 MB.
        See the SLADD Guide for details.
  • Economic Development and Industry Excellence - 3 pages maximum, not to exceed 2 MB.

Please save your work to a file before submitting.
A copy of your submission will be emailed to you upon processing.

Terms

1. Fee of $195 must be accompany each submission, by credit card payment only. Immediately upon submitting this form, you will be forwarded to a secure site for payment.

2. The Global Awards Program serves as an important knowledge-sharing channel so that your company's or organization's case submission(s) may also be used in CoreNet Global Summit Education Sessions and Workshops, and other knowledge-sharing channels including the CoreNet Global Knowledge Center online, Corporate Real Estate Leader magazine, Chapter Learning Partner programs, the CoreNet Global Applied Research Center and other channels. Unless advised otherwise by the award participant(s), nominees' initial case submissions will be posted within the CoreNet Global Knowledge Center at www.corenetglobal.org as a knowledge-sharing service to members and the corporate real estate profession.

3. Deadline for Submission is 16 February 2010.
By submitting this form, I agree with all of the terms outlined above.

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