ECA Industry Awards FAQs

Whether a winner or a category finalist, your business will be able to impress clients and customers with your achievements, helping to boost reputation and win new contracts. 

In addition the following specific benefits are given:

• All category highly placed entries will receive 2 FREE tickets to the ECA Industry Awards Dinner 2025, where outright winners will be announced on Friday 10 October 2025 due to take place at the prestigious Hilton London Bankside Hotel. 
• All category winners will receive an engraved award that can be displayed within their workplace.
• All category winners will receive a set of professional photographs that can be used for publicity purposes. 
• Winners and those that receive special commendations will receive logos that can be placed on all company marketing materials and websites.
• Post-show publicity will be extended across all ECA marketing and promotional channels and to the electrotechnical and engineering services industry with details of all winners, including photography.

Before you enter your work into ECA Industry Awards, we have got few rules to keep your unrestrained creativity in check. 

Entry Rules:

1. All entries for the contractor categories (ECA award categories 1-12) must be current ECA Member businesses of good standing.

2. Previous outright winners in a particular category cannot re-apply for that particular award category in the following year but may apply again after two years.

3. Companies and organisations can enter any relevant award category or categories; however, no company can win in more than two categories.

4. Entries for any ‘turnover-specific’ award category must not be a subsidiary of a company or group of companies that are (individually or collectively) in a higher turnover band. Entries in turnover-specific categories must refer to their overall business turnover.

5. Entries received after the submission deadline will not normally be considered.

6. Entries are only accepted on the official digital entry form. All supplementary information must be uploaded to the online entry form.

7. ECA reserves the right to place your entry into additional award categories which the Head Judge and Adjudicator deem appropriate. You will be notified about this before any public announcement was made.

8. All entrants agree to be photographed and/or interviewed for ECA promotional purposes.

9. ECA reserves the right to publish press releases, articles, case studies and photographs and to carry out positive publicity activity relating to all entrants and winners.

10. Winners will be announced at the ECA Industry Awards Dinner at the prestigious Hilton Bankside in London on Friday 10 October 2025.

11. The judges’ decision is independent and final.

12. Correspondence will only be entered into at ECA’s discretion and will not refer to other entrant's entries.

• Choose wisely

Read the criteria thoroughly and think about your business strengths and achievements you are most proud of. If you are not sure whether you meet the award category criteria, please email awards@eca.co.uk for more guidance or speak to your Regional ECA Office.

• Get your team on board

Make sure your work colleagues and senior management are aware of the awards. They may be able to help you with valuable information, feedback and offer secondary opinions that will help maximise your chances of being shortlisted.

• Provide evidence

To make your case for an award as strong as possible, provide us with hard evidence like facts, statistics, pictures and customer testimonials. The judges have a lot of information to digest so it is important to make it as easy as possible to read.

• Tell us a story

Try to get across your company personality and help us to understand your business and why you are proud of how you operate. If you are passionate about your business this will come through and judges will be more likely to remember your entry above others. It doesn’t have to be a long story, just a compelling one.

• Follow the rules

Make sure you submit your entry using the correct form, keep to the word count, answer every question on the form and submit your entry before the deadline.

• Before entering, read the entry rules and check if your business is eligible.
• Fill in the online entry form(s) on the relevant award category page by Friday 30 May 2025. If you have any supporting evidence, attach these to the form.
• If you should require any further assistance with your entry or entries, please contact awards@eca.co.uk, or contact your regional office.

Entering businsses must be ECA Members who have not defaulted on subscription payments. Any current legal actions against the applying businesses must be declared at the time of form submission. All rights reserved. 

For further assistance with the ECA Industry Awards contact awards@eca.co.uk or your ECA Regional Office.