What is the "Awards for Excellence" Program?
The IPI Award for Excellence was created in 1982. The program’s initial aim was to recognize and commend the trend toward parking facilities that are aesthetically appealing as well as functional, and to encourage excellence in future parking design.
In 1995 IMPC became the International Parking Institute (IPI). At the same time the Awards Program was updated and selection criteria were refined and modernized.
Hundreds of parking facilities and programs have been submitted during competitions since 1983. Facilities and operations from Anchorage to Miami and from Hawaii to Canada have been recognized as outstanding examples of parking design and operational creativity.
The International Parking Institute holds an annual open competition for public agencies, jurisdictions, institutions, organizations or corporations which own parking facilities completed or renovated within the past two years, or which conduct parking programs/operations initiated since that date.
Entries must be received no later than early December 2008 to be eligible. Entries will be accepted beginning mid September 2008.
CATEGORIES
Awards of Excellence, Awards of Merit and Honorable Mention are given to submitted projects/operations determined by the Awards Panel to be deserving of recognition in each category.
Awards may be made in the following five (5) categories. All submissions from Categories I, II and IV will be automatically entered into Category V.
I. Best design of a parking facility with fewer than 800 spaces;
II. Best design of a parking facility with 800 or more spaces;
III. Innovation in a parking operation or program;
IV. Best parking facility rehabilitation or restoration; and
V. Award for Architectural Achievement.
Awards of recognition are given in each winning category to those indicated on the Official Entry Form. Additional plaque requests may be made after notification of a winning entry and prior to Awards of Excellence Luncheon during IPI's International Conference & Exposition.
CRITERIA
Following are the criteria definitions for all categories for the IPI International Parking Awards for Excellence. As you write the narrative portion of your entry, please take into consideration all of the criteria that are applicable to your project. A complete and thorough description of your entry through your narrative (as well as photos and architectural drawings) will be the basis for determining winners in the competition by the Awards Panel. Please note that panel members judge entries as “blind” submissions (no reference to corporate names, consultants, engineers, architects or vendors by name and minimal reference to owning agency). While assignment of ratings for each entry is judgmental on behalf of the panel, the rating values for each criteria are identified. Each criteria is weighed as to comparative importance with the other criteria. Your narrative should consist of no more than 2,000 words.
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SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
To be considered, entries must be submitted by the owning agency, jurisdiction, institution, organization or corporation. Each entry must be submitted with six (6) total individual loose-leaf, three-ring binders which include all items listed in the Entry Packet and on the Entry Packet Checklist. Although parking consultants, architects, engineers and others may initiate and/or participate in entry preparation, entries must be submitted by the owning agency to be judged.
When entering more than one (1) program or parking facility for consideration, an additional entry fee and complete set of entry materials will be required for each submission.
All submitted materials become the property of the International Parking Institute and, by submission of entry materials, permission is granted for the use of such materials to the International Parking Institute.
An entry packet will include full criteria definitions, required entry information, requirements for photos, orientation map, circulation plan and narrative. The requirements included with the Entry Packet must be met before the entry will be considered.
Download the Awards Program Brochure in mid September.
Download the Official Entry Form in mid September.