FinnBuild Highlights 2024 Contest
FinnBuild Highlights competition seeks FinnBuild’s most interesting products, systems, methods and services, which
- enhance the sector’s business capacity, quality development and safety or
- ecological sustainability (low carbon, circular economy, biodiversity) or
- social responsibility (personnel, social responsibility, end-users of the buildings)
The impartial jury will select 6-8 Highlights for the final, from which the winner will receive a record EUR 15,000 award and the right to use the FinnBuild Highlights logo to market the awarded product.
Representatives of the products selected for the Highlights final are obliged to present the product at their stands throughout the event. In addition, the Highlights will appear on the event’s website and in communications.
The contest is open until 23 Aug 2024.
Entries for the FinnBuild Highlights contest can be made free of charge by all FinnBuild 2024 exhibitors
The proposal can be a finished product, service or method based on research and development, innovating the field and meeting the application criteria of the competition. Proposals must be received by 22 August 2022. The same company may submit more than one proposal. Calculations, documents or videos can be attached as justifications. The choices emphasise convincingly justified applications and the commercial impact of the products. Representatives selected for Highlights products will be contacted at the end of August.
The proposal can be a commercially significant product, service or method that is already completed or based on research or development. One company can submit many proposals. Please, leave your proposal by 23 Aug 2024. Representatives selected for Highlights products will be contacted during September.
Selection criteria
In selecting the Highlights, the jury will pay attention to, among other things:
- The new application of the construction and building technology sector or the infrastructure sector and community technology, or the innovative combination of new and old knowledge.
- The practical solutions, advantages and benefits of the proposal to the end user, customer, consumer or society.
- The actual or potential commercial usability of the proposal, either domestically or internationally.
- The proven significance of the benefits achieved in euros, the extension of the life cycle of the building, the carbon sink or, for example, the amount of emission reductions.
The jury will select the Highlights from among the proposals made by exhibitors on the basis of its own judgement. The jury is confidential, information about the participating proposals will not be disclosed to anyone other than the jury without permission of the participating party.
Publication
The Highlights selections are one of the leading topics of FinnBuild’s media coverage and will be published in early September. FinnBuild Highlights are notably on display at the trade fair stands at Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre. Pictures and press releases related to the competition are also available on the event website www.finnbuild.fi.
Schedule
The application process for the competition will open in May. Proposals must be received by 23 August 2024.
Participants selected for the Highlights final will be contacted at the end of August. The FinnBuild Highlights competition is part of the FinnBuild event. If the date of the event changes, the schedule of the competition will change accordingly. Any changes will be announced separately.
Highlights right of use
The organiser has the right to present the work to the extent described above at the FinnBuild trade fair and in all published information and marketing material.
Further information:
Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre, spokesperson Anu-Eveliina Mattila,anu-eveliina.mattila@messukeskus.com, tel. +358 50 555 6183
Chairman of the jury Ilkka Salo, ilkka.salo@talteka.fi, tel. +358 40 847 9907