SUBMISSION GUIDE 2025

Residential NEW
This category includes new build private residences such as a house, condominiums, apartment, loft, or a vacation home. It also includes any existing residence that has undergone a full extensive interior renovation.

Residential PARTIAL RENOVATION
This category includes existing private residences that have been partially renovated: a house, condominium, apartment, loft, or a vacation home. Minimum size of space(s) included are to be no less than 400sf.

Multi-unit Residential
This category includes suites, lobbies, amenity spaces, and private function spaces created within condominiums or apartment buildings.

Marketing and Sales Centres
Included in this category are facilities, whether temporary or permanent, that serve as a promotional tool in the selling or leasing of multi-unit residential developments.

Retail & Kiosks
This category includes retail establishments open to the general public, whether freestanding, within a building, or as part of a shopping centre. Also included in this category are the interiors of shopping centres or shopping centre concourses, whether new construction or a renovation.

Hospitality
This category includes new or renovated hotel rooms, suites, lobbies, private function spaces, amenity spaces, food services and personal services such as spas created within and associated with hotels, motels or inns. Note – food services (bars/restaurants) and personal services associated with an establishment and entered in this category as part of a complete establishments design may not be re-entered individually in another category.

Food and Beverage
This category includes restaurants, coffee shops, food kiosks, food court spaces, private or public clubs, cocktail lounges, bars and nightclubs.

Workplace above $160/s.f.
This category requires the inclusion of all areas of a workplace: workspaces – open and closed, reception areas, meeting rooms, lounge and lunch rooms to the extent that the total workplace is represented.  Partial submissions will re-categorized to the Workplace Partial category.

Workplace below $160/s.f.
This category requires the inclusion of all areas of a workplace: workspaces – open and closed, reception areas, meeting rooms, lounge and lunch rooms to the extent that the total workplace is represented. Partial submissions will re-categorized to the Workplace Partial category.

Workplace Partial
This category includes workplaces where only a portion of the space is renovated such as a public areas – eg. reception area, meeting room and lunch room.

Commercial Sales Centres & Amenity Spaces
Included in this category are facilities, whether temporary or permanent, that serve as a promotional tool in the selling or leasing of commercial space.
It also includes lobbies, amenity spaces – such as lounges and fitness facilities, private function spaces and any other multi-use space available to all occupants of a commercial building.

Institutional and Public Spaces
This category includes places of assembly occupancy, such as schools, universities, daycare centres, museums, theatres, public art galleries, public auditoriums, airports, courthouses, correctional facilities and places of worship.

Health & Wellness Facilities
This category includes all healthcare facilities: hospitals, clinics, research centres, therapeutic and geriatric facilities, medical offices and dental facilities. Wellness includes facilities related to improving our overall health & well being, inside and out, such as fitness facilities, spa’s, hair salons, etc.

SHINE on a Dime (note – projects entered in SHINE2024 may reenter this category this year only)
This category highlights any type of project, any size that was completed for less than $130psf not including mechanical or structural updates. Design must include a combination of some of the following so that a total of 50% of the space has incurred changes: revised layout, new finishes, revised lighting layout, new light fixtures or new millwork. Re-use of existing elements in new ways also qualifies as an incurred change.

Specialty Feature
This category includes a special feature, ie. custom-designed millwork, furniture, lighting, way finding, branding or product, designed as part of an interior design project. It may be a feature from a project entered in another category.

Specialty Project
This category includes a special project not easily defined in other categories like a rocket ship or yacht.

New Construction or Renovation (note – projects entered in SHINE2024 may reenter this category this year only)
Basic green building practices such as energy efficient lighting, materials with recycled content and recycling of construction waste have become the norm in the design and construction industry. The Climate Action and Innovation Award recognizes initiatives by designers and their clients that go beyond conventional green practices to deliver projects that drive innovation, embrace a circular economy and inspire us all to become more conscious of the fragility of our only earth. Entrants into this category are asked to outline their approach to design and/or construction that reflects the principles of IDIBC’s climate manifesto and advances the body of sustainable design and construction practice. Initiatives do not have to be green certified but must be defendable and must be associated with the interior design scope of a project.

IDIBC’s Climate Manifesto