BNP Media contests, awards, surveys and top lists provide our audience with the opportunity to showcase various content that includes products, people and buildings.
Please see below to view BNP Media’s list of upcoming contests, awards, surveys and top lists, organized by brand. You can also navigate to a specific program using the Contests and Awards and Surveys dropdowns above.
PROGRAMS (alphabetically by brand)

Design Vanguard
Architectural Record is looking for the best emerging architecture firms from around the world to feature in our DESIGN VANGUARD issue. Although we do not have an age limit, we try to select architects and designers who have had their own practices for 10 years or less.
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Record Interiors
All architects registered in the United States or abroad, as well as interior designers working in collaboration with architects, are welcome to submit interiors-only projects that have been completed in the last year. Special consideration will be paid to works that incorporate innovations in design, program, building technology, sustainability, and/or materials.
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Kitchen & Bath
Registered architects as well as designers working in collaboration with architects are welcome to submit kitchen and/or bath projects that they have completed in the last year. The projects may be new constructions, renovations, or adaptive reuses that are commercial, residential, domestic, or international.
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Record Products
Manufacturers and designers may submit items introduced in the U.S. A panel of architects and specifiers will judge the entries on criteria including innovation, functionality, and aesthetics.
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Record Houses
The editors of ARCHITECTURAL RECORD announce the RECORD HOUSES awards program. Entry is open to any architect registered in the U.S. or abroad. Of particular interest are projects that incorporate innovation in program, building technology, materials, and form. Projects must be built and inhabited. They may be new construction or renovated and adaptive-reuse projects.
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Commercial Comfort Products of the Year Award
Engineered Systems’ Commercial Comfort Products of the Year Awards contest (CCP) was established to honor excellence in HVACR product design. The prestigious awards program showcases the most innovative products across various categories.
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Top Tier Product Awards
The Top Tier Product Awards recognizes manufacturing excellence in mission critical equipment that embraces safety, energy efficiency, and innovative solutions to ensure reliable uptime for the data centers of today and tomorrow.
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Security Benchmark Survey
The Security Benchmark Report (formerly the Security 500) showcases the security profession’s initiatives, metrics and data to provide a true benchmarking report for the industry. The report includes the biggest challenges and targets for where billions of dollars will be invested to manage enterprise risk and improve enterprise security.
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Premier Distributors Survey
Supply House Times has been conducting an annual survey of PHCP Wholesalers since May 1993. The Premier Distributors Survey is used to develop the Premier 150 Distributors List of wholesalers ranked by their sales for the most recently completed fiscal year.
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Dealer Design Awards
The Dealer Design Awards recognize contractor-oriented products with features that assist in installation, maintenance, and service of installed products to the HVACR industry.
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Cooling Showcase
The April 11th issue will describe your company's newest (within the last 12 months) residential cooling equipment (usually split systems under 5 tons), while the May 2nd issue will introduce your company's latest commercial cooling equipment (usually split systems and packaged units over 5 tons). But your input is required in order for your new products to make it into these very important issues.
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Heating Showcase
The September 12 issue will describe your company's newest (within the last 12 months) residential heating equipment, while the October 3 issue will introduce your company's newest commercial heating equipment. Products may include boilers, furnaces, heat pumps, ductless units, or any other type of space heating equipment that requires installation by a contractor.
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Best Contractor to Work For
If you are an employee who believes that your work environment encourages growth, opportunity, recognition, education, and a winning attitude for all employees, then show off your team by nominating your company as The NEWS’ “Best Contractor to Work For.”
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