Configura’s annual awards competition offers cash prizes for winners
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., USA—July, 28, 2022—Designers, companies and students who use CET to design, specify and visualize spaces are invited to enter the 2022 CET Awards, Configura announced today.
“Our CET community continues to set the bar high for designing spaces that make a difference and we are thrilled to continue the CET Awards that honors the extraordinary work of our community,” said Kelsey DeBruin, Configura’s Global Head of User Community and Events. “Each year, the CET Awards bring together our talented community to showcase the latest trends, innovation, impact and creativity happening in design.”
The CET Awards highlight work from designers, kitchen specialists, engineers, dealerships, manufacturers and talented students across the commercial interiors, kitchen and bath and material handling industries who use CET to design, specify and visualize spaces. Since its launch in 2008, the CET Awards have attracted hundreds of submissions from CET users around the globe.
The CET Awards are free for any CET user to enter and submissions are accepted across six categories: Success Story, Rendering, Student Rendering, Video, 360 Panorama and Innovative Extension. CET Awards entrants can enter as many categories as they wish but can only submit one entry per category. Entrants must have a CET license to participate and can only use CET to create their submission. The deadline for submissions is Sept. 16, 7pm EDT.
The CET Award ceremony take place in conjunction with CET Experience, Configura’s annual user and developer conference, where winners will be announced. This year’s CET Experience will take place Oct. 26-27 at DeVos Place, Monroe Avenue Northwest, Grand Rapids, MI, USA. The conference brings together hundreds of people from around the globe – including designers, dealers, developers, IT professionals, manufacturers and Configura employees – whose goal is to improve how spaces are designed. Conference attendance is not required to participate in the CET Awards or to win.
CET AWARDS CATEGORIES AND PRIZES
Innovative Extension
The Innovative Extension category highlights submissions from manufacturers that have enhanced their Extension for CET. Parametric Graphical Configuration (PGC) has positively impacted the world of space planning and design and has allowed manufacturers to serve more dealers and integrators through Extensions in CET. Manufacturers are encouraged to submit a five-minute video about a specific challenge their Extension faced and steps they took to improve it.
Winners will receive the option for a case study and the choice of CET training hours or CET Developer support/training hours as follows:
- 1st Place: 3 hours
- 2nd Place: 2 hours
- 3rd Place: 1 hour
Success Story
CET users are encouraged to submit their best success story – a project completed in CET that won a dealership work, made a client happy or one that the designer is simply proud of. Projects of all sizes are encouraged.
A jury of Configura employees will determine winners in this category. The top three finalists will be notified and gifted free registration to CET Experience 2022. Winners will be announced during the CET Experience conference awards ceremony.
- 1st Place: $1,000 and free registration to the conference
- 2nd Place: $500 and free registration to the conference
- 3rd Place: $200 and free registration to the conference
Rendering
CET users are encouraged to enter their best rendering created for an office, material handling, health care or kitchen space. A jury consisting of a select group of Configura employees will decide the top 10 finalists in this category. The top three will be decided through voting on the CET Awards website Sept. 26 – Oct. 10. The top three will be announced during the CET Experience.
- 1st Place: $300
- 2nd Place: $200
- 3rd Place: $100
Student Rendering
Undergraduate and graduate students learning CET are encouraged to submit renderings created in the software. Entrants must be a current student or recent graduate, and the rendering must have been created during their time in school.
A jury consisting of a select group of Configura employees will decide the top five finalists in this category. The top three will be decided through voting on the CET Awards website Sept. 26 – Oct. 10. The top three will be announced during the CET Experience.
- 1st Place: $300
- 2nd Place: $200
- 3rd Place: $100
Video
CET users are encouraged to enter fly-through videos created using CET.
A jury consisting of a select group of Configura employees will decide the top five finalists in this category. The top three will be decided through voting on the CET Awards website Sept. 26 – Oct. 10. The top three will be announced during the CET Experience.
- 1st Place: $300
- 2nd Place: $200
- 3rd Place: $100
360 Panorama
CET users are encouraged to submit 360 panorama designs created using CET. All types of spaces and environments are eligible.
A jury consisting of a select group of Configura employees will decide the top five finalists in this category. The top three will be decided through voting on the CET Awards website Sept. 26 – Oct. 10. The top three will be announced during the CET Experience.
- 1st Place: $300
- 2nd Place: $200
- 3rd Place: $100
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Learn more, enter and view past award winners at www.configura.com/awards.
###
Media contact
Katelyn Herrygers
M: (231) 742-1886
katie.herrygers@configura.com
About Configura
Configura creates intelligent space-planning software for manufacturers, dealers and designers in the Contract Furniture, Kitchen and Bath, Material Handling, Industrial Machinery, and Laboratory and Healthcare industries. The company’s software products, including CET Designer, are used by more than 14,000 people around the world. Configura Sverige AB, the parent company, is headquartered in Linköping, Sweden, with commercial operations in Gothenburg, Sweden; Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA; Cincinnati, Ohio, USA; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Shenzhen, China; and Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1990, Configura is privately owned with over 300 employees worldwide and annual sales of more than $25 million USD. More information at www.configura.com.
About CET
Based on technology created by Configura, CET is an intelligent, highly visual and intuitive space-planning software as a service (SaaS) that simplifies specifying and selling of products in a variety of industries. It’s a complete solution that quickly and accurately handles every step of the sales and order process. With environments developed for Commercial Interiors, Kitchen & Bath and Material Handling, the software components represent manufacturers’ products look and behave like actual products. Users drag and drop components into 2D and 3D virtual environments and behind the scenes, the software tracks components, calculates pricing and prevents user errors. Users can create and generate layouts, quotes, photorealistic renderings, movies, installation drawings, reconfigurations and bills of materials – in other words, everything needed to propose on work and place orders. CET is the future of space planning. More information at www.configura.com/cet.