Sponsored by AMX, Control 4, Crestron, Kaleidescape and Rako, the CEDIA Awards celebrate the system design, installation and integration excellence in the home technology sector. Over 160 remarkable submissions from 15 different countries, representing a 61% increase on entries compared to the previous year, competed for the top media room, home cinema, integrated home, superyacht and other category prizes.

“We have been overwhelmed by the outstanding quality in this record-breaking year for entries,” says CEDIA Region 1 chairman Gary Lewis.

“The creativity of the participating companies has shown what is possible to achieve in the current expanding industry. This year’s winners have truly set the benchmark higher for next year. The continuing support from the industry for the scheme is the foundation of its success, and we would like to thanks all companies who have taken the time and effort to enter the CEDIA Awards 2013.”

Winners ranged from a superb media room in Pakistan, sensitively converted into an ‘invisible’ multi-purpose living area with electrifying sound quality to a truly extraordinary eco home in Yorkshire, fully integrated with photovoltaics and rainwater harvesting.

For the first time ever, one category proved too close to call with an ultra-cool, and superbly crafted Dutch project from De Opera Domotica and a technically amazing cinema in the UK from Imagine This announced as joint winners in the Best Home Cinema Over £100,000 category.

Award-winning tech writer and broadcaster, Emma Barnett, the current woman’s editor of the Daily Telegraph, presented the Awards to the winners in front of more than 300 guests in the dazzling black-tie ceremony. The projects represent the crème de la crème of home technology design and installation across the UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, India and Pakistan. Alongside the winners, the judges awarded Highly Commended recognition to projects which reached an exceptionally high standard yet did not win the ultimate prize.

In the new Showroom category, integrator Finite Solutions emerged victorious whilst distributor Aldous Systems scooped the Training Initiative of the Year award and Crestron won the CEDIA Trade Supplier of the Year, a prize chosen by the industry in an online vote.

Emily Senior from House & Garden secured the coveted media-only award for the Best Article on home technology integration, following an extensive feature in the February 2013 issue.

The final accolade of the evening was the Special Recognition Award which CEDIA presented to Simon Buddle of SMC.

Following their success at the awards, the below dealers expressed their thoughts on their achievements.

De Opera Domotica director Jacco Troost says, “Winning two CEDIA awards is the best compliment we could achieve as this was our most challenging and complex project yet. We would like to thank CEDIA who have recognised all of the hard work our team has put in.”

Imagine This managing director Guy Singleton says, “The CEDIA awards is a fantastic event, where the very finest companies in our sector showcase the ultimate projects from their portfolio. We feel incredibly proud to have won the Best Home Cinema Over £100k Award. We have a high market position and an enviable reputation for the design and delivery of the finest screening rooms. Recognition from CEDIA endorses this, showing us and others that we are operating at the very highest level.”

Lewis Building Technology managing director Justin Rhodes says, “The whole team was delighted to win our second CEDIA award on Friday for the Best Integrated Home under £30,000. We were working for a developer on this project who was looking to maximise their return on investment in the technology. The project was a great success and the property sold very quickly in a tough housing market, so to win an award as well is the icing on the cake! Thank you to the CEDIA team for a great awards dinner.”

CEDIA AWARDS 2013 – WINNERS AND HIGHLY COMMENDED:

Best Media Room under £15,000

Winner: ET Home Cinema, Badsworth Hall Study (UK)

Highly Commended: Sound Environment, Small but Soulful (UK)

Best Media Room over £15,000

Winner: Synergy Technologies, S M Media Room (Pakistan)

Best Home Cinema under £40,000

Winner: Finite Solutions, Garage Music Cinema (UK)

Highly Commended: Doneo, The Movie Den (Malta)

Best Home Cinema £40,000 – £100,000

Winner: Lifestyle Technologies, A 007 Class Theatre (Cyprus)

Highly Commended: T&T Automation, House on the Hill (UK)

Best Home Cinema over £100,000

Joint Winner: Imagine This, Luxury Screening Room (UK)

Joint Winner: De Opera Domotica, Cinema Tuschinski (Netherlands)

Highly Commended: The Big Picture, The Wave Cinema (UK)

Best Integrated Home under £30,000

Winner: Lewis Building Technology, The Croft (UK)

Best Integrated Home £30,000 – £100,000

Winner: Complete Home Control, Birch House (UK)

Highly Commended: Konnectiv, I Zero4 (UK)

Best Integrated Home over £100,000 – £250,000

Winner: Grahams Hi-Fi, West View (UK)

Highly Commended: Henri Integrateur Domotique, Villa Jourdan (France)

Best Integrated Home over £250,000

Winner: De Opera Domotica, Dream Home (Netherlands)

Highly Commended: Sensory International, 20th Hole (UK)

Highly Commended: SMC, West Country Manor House (UK)

Best Marine Installation:

Winner: Dawsons Group, Imperial Princess (UK)

Best Multiple Scheme for a Property Developer

Winner: Perfect Integration, 65 Duke Street (UK)

Best Dressed Rack

Winner: T&T Automation, Georgian Mansion (UK)

Highly Commended: The Big Picture, The Wave Cinema Rack (UK)

Best Innovative Solution – Residential

Winner: Dawsons Group, Operation Smooth Zoom (UK)

Best Energy Management Solution:

Winner: Konnectiv, I Zero4 (UK)

Best Trade Supplier

Winner: Crestron

Best Training Initiative

Winner: Aldous Systems

Best Showroom

Winner: Finite Solutions

Highly Commended: Pulse Marketing

Highly Commended: Projecting and Sounding Art

Best Technology Feature In A Homes/Interiors Publication

Winner: Emily Senior, House and Garden

Highly Commended: Katrina Burroughs, FT How to Spend it

Special Recognition

Winner: Simon Buddle, SMC