How do you join Balfour Beatty, McLaughlin & Harvey, AtkinsRéalis, Sir Robert McAlpine, Graham and L Lynch on the list of winners at the Digital Construction Awards?
Here are the top tips to improve your chance of being shortlisted, and therefore having a chance of winning, at the Digital Construction Awards.
1. Study the criteria closely.
2. Make sure you’re entering the correct category.
3. Review who won last year and read about their winning entries to understand what caught the judges’ attention last year.
4. The entry form sets out the story that your entry needs to tell. Answer the questions and provide the information requested.
5. Take the time to draft a formal entry rather than simply uploading content from marketing collateral: your entry will be all the better for this.
6. Use clear, plain English.
7. Jargon: construction is awash with it, but avoid using too much of it in your entry.
8. In the Challenge section, be mindful that, as experienced and knowledgeable as the
judges are, they may not have heard of your firm or project before. Provide
the necessary context.
9. In most categories, the Benefits and Achievements section is worth up to 20 points, so make sure you share detailed results of your work here.
10. Get a colleague to proof your entry before you submit it.
