About the Timber Design Awards
For over 20 years the Awards have promoted and encouraged outstanding timber design. The Awards platform is distinguished by a proud heritage of innovation and achievement.
What are the Timber Design Awards?
Below is a quick overview of the Australian Timber Design Awards.
Awards History
Celebrating Timber Design Excellence
Since the year 2000, the Australian Timber Design Awards have offered a fair and competitive platform for professionals in the building design field to showcase their outstanding use of timber in their design projects to a national and international audience.
The Awards bring together architects, builders, engineers, students, and the press to celebrate excellence in timber design and promote a timber design ethos. The awards highlight outstanding timber designs across diverse applications and recognise achievements in a number of categories.
The Australian Timber Design Awards are open to builders, designers, architects, engineers and landscapers: to anyone involved in the design or building of structures that feature timber.
About the Awards
The sections below outline our mission and vision, detail the Awards platform, benefits and how to get involved.
WHAT IS OUR MISSION?
The mission of the Australian Timber Design Awards is to provide a fair, ethical and competitive platform for businesses, designers and entrepreneurs involved in the building environment design field with different experience levels, diverse professional disciplines and a timber design focus to compete on, while providing them a national (if not international) audience to showcase their success and talents to. The Australian Timber Design Awards and Competition aims to act as blender; to bring together architects, designers, builders, engineers, students, businesses and the press.
WHAT IS OUR VISION?
The vision of the Australian Timber Design Awards is to highlight, advertise, advocate, and develop a timber design ethos through the encouragement and showcasing of superlative timber design in a variety of applications. A broad range of entry categories demonstrates the diversity of timber and permits recognition of achievement in a variety of areas.
HOW IT WORKS?
The Australian Timber Design Awards and Competition offers a unique system for build environment professionals and students to showcase their outstanding application of timber based design in their built projects The Awards also provides an online showcase system for competition participants. Winners are featured permanently on the Australian Timber Design website. Nonetheless, whether you win or not, you will be acknowledged either as a runner-up with the winners’ feature or listed as a participant in the yearly Awards eBook. The Awards website will display your project’s summary profile, create an online photo gallery of your entry, and acknowledge your Award accolade.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF THE AWARDS?
Winning an accolade in the Australian Timber Design Awards, which is an independent and expert appraisal for timber design contributes to personal, and business reputation and brand image. Taking part in the Australian Timber Design Awards & Competition provides valuable feedback and experience. Award winners can proudly display their exclusive award trophies and design excellence certificates which grants them prestige and expert status.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS FOR THE WINNERS?
The Awards competition provides extensive and intense publicity to award winning designs, it is considered as a quality and high-return alternative to any advertising you might be running provided that you have a good design that could win any of the Award categories.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS FOR PROFESSIONALS?
The Australian Timber Design Awards benefits businesses that produce outstanding timber based designs for buildings and structures to achieve their goals, increase sales and get publicity, such as the award badge which provides a competitive advantage to help individuals and companies promote their good design practises and build their brand.
HOW CAN I GET INVOLVED?
The main organiser is always open to new applications (subject to availability) by interested parties wanting to get involved into sponsoring of the competition or an Award category. Several levels of sponsorship are available to participate in the forming of the Australian Timber Design Awards community.
Find out how to become a sponsor.
HOW ARE RESULTS ANNOUNCED?
The competition winner’s results are always communicated to the participants at the end of the judging round to allow for publicity and events preparations. All other communication about who has won an award is kept under seal until the Awards Presentation Night event. After which time, a broadcast announcement of the Grand-Prix, People’s Choice, and Category Award winners are made through various channels. The winning projects will be featured on our website as part of a yearly competition gallery. The Awards winners can use their Australian Timber Design Awards badges to further underline that their designs have been evaluated by an industry recognised organisation and that their projects have been marked as great timber designs.
WHO RUNS THE TIMBER DESIGN AWARDS?
The Australian Timber Design Awards are organised by the Timber Development Association (TDA) in partnership with Forest and Wood Products Australia (FWPA) and WoodSolutions.
Learn more about:
Timber Development Association
Forest and Wood Products Australia
WoodSolutions
Awards Platform Snapshot
Some fun facts about the Awards. Did you know?
Years Running
Established in the year 2000
Awards Presented
Over 15 categories every year
Submitted Projects
Oustanding projects and heavily contested categories
Award Participants
Strong yearly interest with new participants
Need More Information?
If you’re not quite ready to register and start your application, please check out additional information on Key Dates, Award Categories and Frequently Asked Questions on the pages below.
Key Dates
Don’t Miss Out!
Don’t miss our submission deadlines, key announcements or presentation night.
Categories
Check Your Entry!
All you need to know about award categories, from design to merit and product categories.
FAQs
Got A Question?
If you can’t find what you’re? Head to our Frequently Asked Questions page.
Our Sponsors
The Australian Timber Design Awards would not be possible without the generous support from our sponsors. Please click the sponsor logos below to find out more about how they support sustainable timber and outstanding design.
Ready to Promote the Awards?
Promote and encourage outstanding timber design in the built environment professions, collaborating and cooperating with the Australian Timber Design Awards competition.
