ECABC’s 2024 Innovation Award Nominations Now Open

January 9, 2025

The second annual ECABC Innovation Award will be presented at ECABC’s AGM & Conference Gala Dinner in Victoria on June 13, 2025.

The Award highlights a project completed during 2024 that exemplifies the use of innovation in electrical construction to improvise a task, solve a problem or significantly improve a project (i.e. better safety or productivity).

Projects should incorporate an element that meets one or more of the following descriptions:

• Implements a unique concept to resolve a specific challenge
• Develops a new or emerging concept into a commercial success and/or can be replicated
• Creation of a new concept or technique
• Utilizes an existing concept/technology/equipment for a new purpose or solution
Submissions must demonstrate an innovation that is clearly the work of the electrical contractor, rather than of the overall project or a consultant.

Nomination Eligibility and Information

• Nominees must be current, voting members in good standing of the Electrical Contractors Association of BC
• Nominees can serve any role on the project (prime/general/trade/sub-trade, etc.)
• There is no fee to submit a nomination
• Once a nomination is submitted, ECABC staff confirm the nominees’ eligibility prior to the start of the judging process
• Nominees may be required to provide a presentation or participate in an interview with the Judges Panel
• Each company is limited to three project nominations per year; divisions demonstrating innovation are encouraged to apply (new construction, service, communications/security, etc.)
• The innovation must have been developed by the nominee contractor or in collaboration with the nominee contractor
• Project must have been completed in 2024

Evaluation Process

The Judges Panel consists of select members of the ECABC Hall of Fame. The winner will be the project with the highest average score. Judges will abstain from scoring any project submitted by a contractor that they have previously worked for or employed.

Nominations for the ECABC Innovation Award close at 5:00pm on March 28, 2025.

Go HERE for more information on how to apply