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THE PLAN Real Estate Award 2024

Real Estate Special Contest

Promoted and organised by the international architecture magazine THE PLAN, THE PLAN Real Estate Award represents an incredible opportunity to showcase outstanding real estate operations and achieve international visibility.

Born with the spirit of supporting the value of architectural quality and sustainability of real estate investments, also with a view to technological and social innovation, THE PLAN Real Estate Award triggers a solid and serious debate on these major issues.

Excellence of management, sustainability, and added value achieved by the real estate operation. Innovative entrepreneurship and process industrialization. Dialogue between players

Architectural research and creativity. Technologically innovative and digital design

Environmental footprint. Impact on the project’s economic and social fabric

Read the regulations and the submission guidelines
THE PLAN REAL ESTATE AWARD is a competition for an award sponsored by THE PLAN.
The subject matter of the contest shall be real estate development projects that have either been completed, are to be completed in the future, currently under construction, or not realized.
Submissions to the contest may be made by self-employed professionals, groups and businesses connected with the realty sector, namely: real estate developers, asset management companies, real estate investors, asset management, general contractors and real estate advisors..

THE PLAN REAL ESTATE AWARD is open to national and international self-employed professionals, groups and companies. Individual candidates, groups and companies may submit one or more projects.
THE PLAN REAL ESTATE AWARD welcomes:

- Interventions completed as of 1 January 2021 (identified as "Completed")
- Ongoing, unrealized or future projects (identified as "Future")

THE PLAN REAL ESTATE AWARD has three categories, specifically:

INVESTMENT AND ASSET MANAGEMENT
• Management, sustainability and valorization of the real estate operation
• Innovative entrepreneurship and industrialization of the process
• Dialogue among players

ESG – ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIAL GOVERNANCE
• Environmental footprint
• Impact on the economic and social context

INNOVATION AND DESIGN
• Architectural research and creativity
• Technological and digital innovation

For each project/intervention submitted, a subsequent typological specification will also be requested (Residential; Office; Commercial; Hospitality; Mixed use; Masterplanning) in order to proceed to a more balanced and coherent division and evaluation by the Jury.

Each project/intervention may compete in one or more categories.

Each project/intervention may only be entered once for the relevant category. If the same project/intervention is submitted by more than one company belonging to the same working group (e.g. property developer and general contractor), only the first application received in chronological order will be considered valid.

There will be one Completed and one Future winner in each category. The winners will also compete for the title of Overall Winner. One or more honorable mentions will be awarded if deemed appropriate by the Jury.
The projects/interventions which did not win one of the past editions may compete in the 2024 edition, provided they respect the time constraint indicated in art. 3.

The “Future” projects/interventions that won in one of the past editions may compete in the 2024 edition, as long as they have been completed and are therefore classified as "Completed" and no longer as "Future" (e.g. the 2022/23 winner in "Investment and Asset Management - Future" may compete in 2024 for "Investment and Asset Management - Completed").
Registration is possible from February 2, 2024.
Entry period and material upload from February 2, 2024 to November 29, 2024 (inclusive).
It is at the organiser's discretion to postpone the initially indicated deadlines.

A registration fee for the technical costs of managing the AWARD is required for each project submitted. Once the registration has been completed, it will be possible to proceed with the subsequent phases of payment of the fee and presentation of the material. Participation in THE PLAN REAL ESTATE AWARD is subject to the completion of all payment, registration, and uploading phases.
Participation in THE PLAN REAL ESTATE AWARD is subject to the payment of a registration fee, to be intended per single project/intervention candidate and not per participant.

Entry fee (VAT included) for each candidate project/intervention:
Early Bird Price: 2 February 2024 – 10 March 2024 → Euro 500,00
Regular Price: 11 March 2024 – 29 November 2024 → Euro 600,00

Special promo 3x2: in case of two projects/interventions submitted, the third one will be free of charge (valid only through Regular Price period)

In order to participate in THE PLAN REAL ESTATE AWARD, the following material must be sent for each project/intervention candidate, to be uploaded on the website www.theplan.it in the appropriate section.
STEP 1 - ENTRY FORM
Personal data (which will not be published) necessary for copyright ownership of submitted works and projects.

STEP 2 - PROJECT DETAILS
Project title*
Short description of the project* (160 characters max)
Company name*
Project Team
Type of intervention*

PROJECT IDENTIFICATION FORM
_City*
_State*
_Select between completed and future project*
_Completion*
_Gross Floor Area (mq)
_Costs*
_Investor
_Developer
_Architects
_Consultants
_Suppliers
_Main Contractor
Photo Credits
Video material, youtube-vimeo
Web site
Social media TAG

STEP 3 - PROJECT DESCRIPTION
n.5 box with open questions (min 400 e max 800 keystrokes, including spaces)
_What vision and strategy lie behind the project? How did it start?*
_How does the project dialogue with the context?*
_Bearing in mind the importance of sustainability, which strategies were adopted? And how?
_What are the strengths and main features of the project?* (Min. 600 max 1'500 keystrokes, including spaces)
_Some thoughts about the project*

Write a few words from the client (max 500 keystrokes, including spaces) Tag for publication:
• Typology
• Material
• Technology

STEP 4 - PHOTO GALLERY
min 10 | max 12 photos of built work or renderings for work under construction
Size: Long side - 1,500 px
Formats: jpg, RGB, 72 dpi
Weight: max 600Kb each

All images must be accompanied by:
• photo credit
• caption of image

All Images received will be considered Free of Rights to be published only in THE PLAN website and publications

STEP 5 - SPECIFIC MATERIAL FOR EACH CATEGORY
zip file containing the materials specify in the 6.2 article of the regulation Max 20 MB
Depending on the category of participation, additional material will be requested to be uploaded on the website www.theplan.it in the appropriate section.

Investment and Asset Management
• Description of the objectives of the operation with an indication of the role it plays or will play in the assets designed, owned, developed or managed by the companies participating in the contest and for the territory in which it is located
• Outline of the authorisation process and description of the relationship with the Public Administration
• Outline of the investment in terms of costs
• A brief property analysis of the economic spin-offs and returns, expected and/or obtained
• Elements and strategies of process industrialisation and innovative entrepreneurship
• Best practices in site management and in the relationship with the supply chain (dialogue with investor, tenant, general contractor, design studio, bottom-up participatory process, etc.)
• Approach to exit strategy (optional)

ESG – Environmental Social Governance
• Description of the objectives of the operation with an indication of the role it plays or will play within the assets designed, owned, developed or managed by the companies participating in the contest and for the territory in which it is located, with specific reference to the implementation of sustainability elements
• Strategies aimed at generating new value and/or improving the quality of life for the reference context
• Strategies implemented or planned to achieve energy efficiency. Life cycle analysis, carbon management, carbon footprint, and life cycle cost analysis
• Environmental certifications or similar credits obtained, under evaluation (BREEAM, LEED etc.). In the case of operations in the initial phase, evidence of the choices being made to achieve the results necessary to obtain credits, indicating which certification will be referred to
• Brief property analysis with evidence of the impact on the value of the investment made from an ESG perspective

Innovation and Design
• Description of the objectives of the project with an indication of the role it plays or will play within the assets designed, owned, developed, or managed by the companies participating in the contest
• Elements of innovation and architectural research
• Elements of technological and digital innovation
• Description of the role and weight of the different "research, innovation and technology" elements in the project
• Brief analysis of the social and real estate return that the project is having or may have in the territorial context in which it is inserted and the role of the innovation component
The official language of the competition is English.
Failure to meet the deadlines for the delivery of the material and failure to comply with all the indications in art. 3, 6, 6.1 and 6.2 will result in exclusion from the selection. In the event of exclusion, the participation fee paid will not be refunded. The organizer has the right to postpone the initially indicated deadlines at his discretion.
The projects will be assessed by a dedicated Jury (illustrated in art. 11) to identify the finalist projects. The list of finalist projects for each category will be communicated on the website www.theplan.it. The date of publication of the finalist projects on the website www.theplan.it will be communicated at a later date.
The Jury (illustrated in art. 11) will declare, among the finalist projects, the winners and any honorable mentions.
The Jury will be composed of leading figures in the world of architecture, urban planning, investment and of prominent personalities in the academic field. Its composition will be made public through the official channels of THE PLAN REAL ESTATE AWARD.
The award ceremony for the winning projects of THE PLAN REAL ESTATE AWARD will take place in Milan in January 2025 (date and location to be defined). The organizer may change the date and location of the awards ceremony at its discretion.
A specific promotional campaign will be made for all winning projects, consisting of:

• Publication on THE PLAN's social channels
• Sending of a newsletter with the story of THE PLAN Real Estate Award to THE PLAN international database
• Publication of a web article on THE PLAN website
Without prejudice to copyright, participants allow Maggioli S.p.A. publishing house, without any claim, to use the material and works submitted, by any means and only for the purpose of disseminating and promoting the award. The projects submitted may be included in one or more publications edited by the publishing house Maggioli S.p.a, at its sole discretion.
On forwarding the documentation required for admission to the Contest, participants in THE PLAN Real Estate Award within the framework of THE PLAN AWARD 2022:

• declare under their sole responsibility that they are the exclusive copyright owners of the work and projects submitted, and undertake to hold the publishing house Maggioli SpA and the journal THE PLAN harmless against any and all challenges, claims or judgements of third parties with respect to the works/projects used or disseminated by means of the publications mentioned in these Regulations;
• declare that all the data provided and declarations made to be true and correct, and hereby assume all and any responsibility in this regard;
• declare they have understood and hereby accept all the terms and conditions set down in these Regulations;
• authorize the publishing house Maggioli SpA to keep any material forwarded and not be under any obligation to return same;
• authorize the publishing house Maggioli SpA and the journal THE PLAN, promoter of THE PLAN AWARD and THE PLAN REAL ESTATE AWARD, to use, publish and disseminate, fully or in part, the content (images, drawings, renderings, videos, texts and all other material provided) pertaining to the works in digital and printed form also for promotional purposes, provided the sources and copyright ownership are cited, hereby undertaking to make no claims in respect of copyright or any other remuneration of any kind for whatever reason. Participants furthermore release the publishing house Maggioli SpA and the journal THE PLAN from any claims by or concerning third parties.
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