Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions

All Projects / Products must be 100 percent finished works at the time of entry submission and must have been completed between 1 January 2019 and 30 June 2020. Speculative or unfinished projects, display projects, client pitches and/or mock-ups will not be considered valid. (Exception to product categories)

This is an Australia-based competition and is open exclusively to Australia-based architects and designers, with completed projects in the country. All entrants must be Australian residents and have been working in the country for 12 months or over.


Entry conditions

•  Entries Extended until 11:59pm on 7 August 2020, AEST.

•  Indesign Media Asia Pacific must receive entry and payment on or before this date.

• All entries are to be submitted online at susawards.awardstack.com

** For submission, please ensure all images are of the highest quality, we suggest 1920 x 1080 pixels in landscape. We will NOT accept pixelated images. 

Indesign Media Asia Pacific and its partners will not be held responsible for any non-receipt of entries, however so caused. Entries ruled invalid for whatever reason will not be considered for the awards.


Copyright and Usage

By entering the Sustainability Awards, all entrants concede they have permission from all involved parties pertaining to any projects, including clients, copyright holders and collaborators, to allow Indesign Media Asia Pacific and its partners to publish their work across any of its print and digital platforms / brands, as well as any associated promotional materials, without limitation for awards purposes only.


Indesign Media Asia Pacific may contact you to request higher-resolution copies of your submitted images for publishing purposes.

By ticking the box on the entry form you indemnify Indesign Media Asia Pacific, Architecture & Design websites, magazine and Sustainability Awards 2020, its employees and agents and supporting partners from any liability for wrongful use or misrepresentation of the works submitted. You assert that you are the author of the work and own the intellectual and moral rights to the work under the Copyright Act. Wrongful assertion of these rights will render the entry invalid, and the entrant accepts all liability for any claim for damages or loss resulting from such wrongful assertion.

By ticking the box on the entry form you assert the truthfulness of this information, and assign copyright of this text to Indesign Media Asia Pacific, further authorising the editing and publication of the project statement by Indesign Media Asia Pacific and its partners to publish their work across any of its print and digital platforms / brands as well as any associated promotional materials, without limitation for awards purposes only. 


All project and product entrants must obtain permission from the commissioning client to enter the project into the awards.

Any entries that are subsequently found to breach any of the terms and conditions of entry will be ruled invalid and withdrawn from consideration for awards.

In the event that an award winner is subsequently found to breach the terms and conditions of entry, their work may be ruled invalid and the award deemed null and void. The entrant will be liable for any costs incurred and must return the prize(s) received.


The jury reserves the right at all times to determine whether an entry qualifies as an acceptable work within the category for which it is submitted. Works the judges deem not acceptable will be ruled invalid.


Sustainability Award winners and entrants may be asked to participate in additional events or editorial opportunities to support Sustainability Awards, Sustainability Summit and the design industry.

Terms and conditions may be amended, deleted or added from time to time at our discretion, and will be published with any/all the revised terms and conditions on the website. By checking the box on the online entry form you agree to the full terms and conditions, so please read them carefully.


All judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into relating to the judging process or the outcome.