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Guests at the prestigious CEDIA Electronic Lifestyles Awards dinner celebrated in style at the majestic Plaza Ballroom, witnessing some of Asia Pacific’s best and most interesting custom installations of home technology ever seen in this part of the world.
The 2010 event was a truly international affair with winners not only from Australia, but from as far away as China and New Zealand being recognised for their efforts. The event celebrated the true depth of design and installation talent in the custom electronics installation sector.
The CEDIA awards continues to reflect the growth of the Association throughout the Asia Pacific.
We are pleased to announce the winner and highly commended . . .
1. Best Integrated Home Installation over $300,000
Winner: Home Theatrix, Qld
Highly Commended: Len Wallis Audio, NSW
“This is fantastic, it’s taken us a long time to win an award like this but certainly worth it. The customer loves the installation which is the main thing.”
Tim Gentile, System Designer, Home Theatrix
2. Best Integrated Home Installation $150,000 - $300,000
Winner: Len Wallis Audio, NSW
Highly Commended: Cableman, VIC
"This makes it two years in a row, which is pretty amazing. A 4.5 year project in a full concrete house. The slabs were challenging to deal with so this recognition is really great.”
Alberto Vangi, Len Wallis Audio Visual
3. Best Integrated Home Installation under $150,000
Winner: Automation Associates, NZ
Highly Commended: Electronic Living, Qld
Highly Commended: Integrated Technologies Australia, VIC
“It’s absolutely amazing to win this category. The home is a masonry home in suburban Auckland with perimeter security, access control, lighting control and touch panels in a full automation system. Just a really nice project in a compact home design. The builders, architect and home-owners were all great people to deal with”
Jason Adams, Design Consultant, Automation Associates
4. Best Media Room
Winner: Howdoi, VIC
"We’ve picked up a few CEDIA awards over the years and It’s always good, to get recognition.”
Simon Zettl, Managing Director, Howdoi
5. Best Commercial Project
Winner: Urban Intellegence, VIC
Highly Commended: Len Wallis Audio, NSW
“This is one of the first jobs I did when I started with the business some 18 months ago so it fantastic to win the award. We’ll be looking to follow it up next year.”
Stephen Sokolowski, Project Manager, Urban Intelligence
6. Best Dressed System (Residential)
Winner: Automated Innovation, NSW
“We won an award last year but if feels great to win two this year. This domestic project was a totally self-sufficient home in Newcastle with 52 solar cells, the owners haven’t had an electricity bill yet. They have four 20,000-litre water tanks, all monitored from a Switch Automation touch panel so they can view the levels of their tanks, how much power they are using.”
Nathan Gill, Managing Director, Automated Innvovation
7. Best Home Theatre over $100,000
Winner: Suite Control, NSW
"It feels to great win. It was a lot of hard work but well worth it in the end.”
George Nicols, Director, Suite Control
8. Best Home Theatre $50,000 - $100,000
Winner: Zenetech Beijing, China
Highly Commended: Electronic Interiors Brisbane, QLD
9. Best Home Theatre under $50,000
Winner: Cableman, VIC
“It’s fantastic to win. There were over 80 entries and it gets harder and harder to win each year, so we’re very happy.”
Anthony Elbaum, Executive Director, Cableman
10. Best Special Project – Domestic
Winner: Automated Innovation, NSW
Highly Commended: Surround Sounds, WA
“We won an award last year but if feels great to win two this year. This domestic project was a totally self-sufficient home in Newcastle with 52 solar cells, the owners haven’t had an electricity bill yet. They have four 20,000-litre water tanks, all monitored from a Switch Automation touch panel so they can view the levels of their tanks, how much power they are using.”
Nathan Gill, Managing Director, Automated Innvovation
11. Best Project Design & Documentation
Winner: Electronic Living, QLD
Highly Commended: Liquid Automation, NZ
“It was definitely a challenge and an award we’re proud to win.”
Damian Cavanagh, Director, Electronic Living
12. Best Marine Project
Winner: Liquid Automation, NZ
Highly Commended: CHM Electronics, NSW
“It was an eight-month project with an impressive installation that included all the bells and whistles aboard this luxury vessel. We’re excited to have won for the second year running, and also we received a highly-commended award for the project design and documentation for the same project.”
Sam Ashton, Liquid Automation
About the CEDIA Electronic Lifestyles Awards . . .
The prestigious CEDIA Awards recognise and promote high quality system design, installation and integration within the custom electronic automation industry; setting the standard for CEDIA Electronic Systems Professional members across CEDIA Asia Pacific.
A CEDIA Electronic Lifestyles® Award is an endorsement of your skills as an installer/designer, and provides a valuable opportunity for marketing and promotion of those skills to your client base.
Entry was open to all CEDIA Electronic Systems Professional (ESP) members. The entries were judged by a panel of industry experts and the winners were announced at the CEDIA Electronic Lifestyles® Awards Night, held at the Plaza Ballroom, Melbourne on Wednesday 23 June 2010, during the annual CEDIA Expo in Melbourne (CEDIA Expo 2010 ran 23-25 June 2010).
If you would like further information please contact
Kelly Willett, Events Co-ordinator on
+61 9666 1677 or email awards@cedia.com.au
Date
Thursday 05 Aug 2010 - Friday 05 Aug 2011
