GE Consumer & Industrial announces a call for entries for the 27th annual GE Edison Award competition. Through the competition, GE recognizes excellence and quality in professional lighting designs that employ the significant use of GE light sources (lamps and/or LEDs).

The GE Edison Award competition is open to professional designers, architects, engineers and consultants. Entries are judged on the following criteria: functional excellence; architectural compatibility; effective use of state–of–the–art lighting products and techniques; appropriate color, form and texture revelation; energy effectiveness and cost effectiveness.

Projects scoring the highest number of points will qualify to receive Awards of Merit or Awards of Excellence. The GE Edison Award Winner is selected from among the Awards of Excellence. The Award for Residential Lighting Design is judged on the same criteria mentioned above and presented to the project that best exemplifies excellence in lighting design within a residential application.

The GE Edison Award Winner receives a personalized Steuben crystal trophy.

Expected features of this design would include innovative application(s) of light and the creative integration of lighting layers and controls. The Award for Excellence in Environmental Design gives special recognition to those projects that minimize the use of energy, maximize the use of daylighting, control light pollution, and ensure system durability and maintainability.

All lighting projects, submitted for award consideration, must have been completed between January 1, 2009, and December 31, 2009. Entries must be received by January 11, 2010. For more information about the GE Edison Awards visit www.GEEdisonAward.com.