2010 World Demolition Awards - judging now underway

The 2010 World Demolition Awards shortlists are currently under consideration, with the results due for release in very early September. The international judging panel was faced with a major challenge to determine the most deserving entries received from around the world but are labouring hard. During their deliberations, aside from ensuring that entries met the criteria laid down for each of the award categories and evaluating their relative merits, the judges are also governed by two key requirements.

First, if an individual judge's own company submitted entries to the awards, that individual judge is automatically excluded from the judging process for the relevant categories, as well as from any discussions centred around those specific categories. This procedure has been adopted to ensure that there could be no possible perceived conflict of interest.

Second, since the D&Ri World Demolition Awards are open to all demolition contractors, entries are to be judged solely on their individual merit. No other factors, such as membership of national demolition associations (or non-membership), were to be considered when entries were evaluated.

Both of the above requirements also apply to the final meeting that will determine the eventual winners of each individual award category.

From their initial inception, D&Ri has always intended that the World Demolition Awards recognise the skill and achievements of the demolition industry worldwide. To achieve this, we always knew that the judging process had to be carried out by recognised industry experts in a manner that was seen to be open and fair to all to reflect the nature of our readership - this we believe we have achieved.