Light Middle East Awards

Outdoor lighting Product of the Year : This category celebrates the product that utilizes innovative technologies to provide high-value, high-performance outdoor lighting solutions.

Indoor lighting Product of the Year : This category recognizes the product that utilises innovative technologies to produce high-value, high-performance indoor lighting solutions, etc.

Connected Lighting Innovation of the Year : This category appreciates innovation that includes all visible light communication, IoT, Li-fi, IP-based systems, data management and smart city technologies.

Decorative Wall Lighting Product of the Year : This category recognizes the product that utilises specific designs to add ambient lighting in a variety of spaces to turn a flat wall into something decorative.

Decorative Chandelier of the Year : This category celebrates the product that provides a decorative light fixture mounted on ceilings for indoor design lighting requirements.

Decorative Table Lamp of the Year : This category recognizes the product that utilises unusual contemporary designs as an accessory for indoor decorative requirements.

Hotel Lighting Project of the Year : This category is aimed at the interior and exterior lighting design of the Hotel that best incorporates lighting as part of the scheme (i.e. how the light works with the materials and finishes and the different moods it creates within the space) and whose exterior lighting is carefully designed with regard to placement, intensity, timing, duration and color – controlling light pollutions and preserving the night sky, etc.

Restaurant / Bar Lighting Project of the Year : This category is aimed at interior and exterior lighting design of standalone Restaurants, Bars, Lounges that emphasise the space designs and features, creating a relaxing and welcoming atmosphere, etc.

Entertainment and Leisure Lighting Project of the Year : This category is amied at the scheme that manages to transform the mood of customers and illuminate the unique façade, architecture and structure of the of all types of leisure and entertainment buildings such as sports facilities, stadia, theatres, cinemas, theme parks and museums.

Retail Lighting Project of the Year : This category is aimed at the outlet whose lighting is best used as a tool to create experiences which influence consumers mood and behavior in commercial spaces from food to fashion.

Workplace Lighting Project of the Year : This category appreciates all types of workplaces from Offices, Education and healthcare where the lighting is people- and task-orientated.

Public Realm & Landscape Lighting Project of the Year : This category is aimed at promoting excellence in lighting design and illumination in rich and diverse qualities of exteriors, heritage buildings and spaces open to public.

Retrofit Lighting Project of the Year : This category is aimed at projects that incorporated advanced energy-saving and environmentally responsible retrofit solutions, with the usage of quality products to minimize energy consumption and impact on the environment, in a government building, Hotel, Retail or Leisure facility in the Middle East.

Daylight Project of the Year : This category recognizes projects that are defined by their imaginative and innovative use of combining abundant natural light with an exciting and efficient artificial lighting scheme.

Light Art Project of the Year : This category appreciates temporary and permanent Art installations, productions, media architecture which transforms the perception of a given space making it attractive but also adding a value added wow effect using light as the essential design element and the fundamental construction material.

Low Budget Project of the Year : This category recognizes value engineering, aesthetically pleasing craftsmanship and customized solutions creating the right ambiance and perception for a project with an equipment value of under USD 50,000.

International Lighting Project of the Year : This category is aimed at exceptional lighting design for an iconic project with excellent aesthetic design, with the usage of quality lighting products with latest technology, etc.

Light Middle East Personality of the Year : The person who has made an outstanding contribution to the lighting industry 2018-19 in terms of milestone, creativity, innovation, technology and education.

Innovative Lighting Project of the year This category is aimed at projects with a unique concept, out of the box thinking, excellent aesthetic design, with the usage of quality products with latest technology project that best shows an innovative achievement of creative and unusual lighting, etc.

Hotel Lighting Project of the Year This category is aimed at the interior and exterior lighting design of the Hotel that best incorporates lighting as part of the scheme (i.e. how the light works with the materials and finishes and the different moods it creates within the space) and whose exterior lighting is carefully designed with regard to placement, intensity, timing, duration and color – controlling light pollutions and preserving the night sky, etc.

Restaurant / Bar Lighting Project of the Year This category is aimed at interior and exterior lighting design of standalone Restaurants, Bars, Lounges that emphasise the space designs and features, creating a relaxing and welcoming atmosphere, etc.

Entertainment and Leisure Lighting Project of the year This category is amied at the scheme that manages to transform the mood of customers and illuminate the unique façade, architecture and structure of the project, etc.

Retail Lighting Project of the Year This category is amied at the outlet whose lighting is best used as a tool to create experiences which influence consumers mood and behavior in commercial spaces, etc.

Exterior Lighting Project of the Year This category recognizes excellence in not only the lighting design but in the usage in all aspects of exterior lighting, etc.

Public Lighting Project of the Year This category recognises excellence in the Lighting design of Universities, Place of Worship, Streetscape, Hospitals, Museums, Parks & Theme Parks, Sports Facilities, Airports, Ports, Stadia, Theatres, Metro Stations, Facades, Monuments etc. , that delivers best in both natural and artificial illumination: light and surface, light and texture, light and pattern, light and color and most importantly, light and human activity, etc. 

Sustainable Lighting Project of the Year This category is aimed at projects that incorporate advanced energy-saving and environmentally responsible solutions, with the usage of quality products with minimum energy consumption and minimum impact on the environment, etc. 

International Lighting Project of the year This category is aimed at exceptional lighting design for an iconic project with excellent aesthetic design, with the usage of quality lighting products with latest technology, etc.

Architectural Lighting Product Category
 
- Innovative Lighting Product of the year: This category recognizes the product that utilises innovative technologies to produce high-value, high-performance lighting solutions, etc.

- Outdoor lighting product of the Year: This category celebrates the product that provides high-performance, professional caliber outdoor lighting solutions for outdoor lighting requirements,    etc.

- Indoor lighting product of the Year: This category recognizes the product that utilises innovative technologies to produce high-value, high-performance indoor lighting solutions, etc.

Decorative Lighting Product Category

- Decorative Wall Lighting product of the year: This category recognizes the product that utilizes specific designs to add ambient lighting in a variety of spaces to turn a flat wall into something decorative.

- Decorative Chandelier of the year: This category celebrates the product that provides a decorative light fixture mounted on ceilings for indoor design lighting requirements

- Decorative Table Lamp of the year: This category recognizes the product that utilizes unusual contemporary designs as an accessory for indoor decorative requirements.