DESIGN COMPETITION CONDITIONS

Important note: The full conditions are available here, only some extracts are provided on this page

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COMPETITION ELIGIBILITY

This is an Open Competition and does not limit eligibility of Entrants, other than the broad requirement that entrants must

• Be a registered architect in Australia, or, if international, partnering with a registered architect in Australia;

• To have completed at least two projects;

• At least one of these projects must have been realised by the project architect of the proposed team.

 

COMPETITION MAIN DATES

The timeline for this architectural competition is as follows:

 

1. Opening of the competition              17th of August

2. Deadline for registration                    20th of September

3. Deadline for submission                    22nd of September > new: 23/09

4. Jury                                                        23rd - 29th of September

5. Announcement of the 3 short-listed          29th of September 2022

6. Announcement of the winner          29th of September 2022 > new: 06/10

7. Design development and documentation contract: to be signed within 30 days of the Winner announcement

 

Entrants have the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers to all questions asked by Entrants from the 17th of August 2022 to the 15th of September 2022 COB. 

A dedicated page on the OMOA website will compile all these questions and answers. 

No communications after this date will be engaged. 

The Professional Adviser will communicate competition revisions (if any).

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PROFESSIONAL ADVISER

The Professional Adviser is Professor Karine Dupre.

The Professional Adviser 

• will prepare and coordinate this competition 

• ensure that confidentiality is maintained throughout the Competition

• will ensure that all entries comply in all respects with these conditions, and disqualify any entry that does not comply;

• will ensure that Entrants have the opportunity to ask questions and receive answers to all questions asked by Entrants;

 

Where an Entrant needs to communicate with the Professional Adviser in accordance with these Conditions, such communication must be via email to Professor Karine Dupre,  omoacompetition@gmail.com

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TECHNICAL ADVISER

Energy & Environmental Performance Technical Adviser is Majed Abuseif.

The Professional Adviser may engage  other Technical Advisers for advice.

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ENTRANTS OBLIGATIONS

In addition to any other obligations set out in these conditions and for the sake of clarity, all Entrants in this Competition must:

• comply in all respects with these conditions;

• fully complete and sign the Declaration appended to these conditions (Appendix A);

• maintain anonymity and confidentiality, where required;

• respect moral rights and copyright of others in relation to development of their entry;

• promptly inform the Professional Adviser of any actual, potential or perceived conflict of interest;

• make no attempt to unfairly or inappropriately influence the jury process or any member of the Jury, and

• accept the decision of the Jury as final.

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JURY OBLIGATIONS

The Jury:

• will make awards, which are final and which will be made public by the date stated in these Conditions;

• will give the number and total monetary value of awards stipulated in these Conditions;

• may, but only in exceptional circumstances and after consultation with the Professional Adviser, distribute the awards differently to that proposed in these Conditions;

• may choose not to award a prize at its discretion;

• will finalise its Jury report prior to the date for public announcement of the winner, and

• members will remain the same, subject to the need for inclusion of any reserve juror, for all stages of the Competition that require evaluation of a design concept.

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COMPETITION INTEGRITY 

 

Equity of treatment and access

To ensure that all Entrants are treated equally and have the same access to participation in the Competition, each Entrant must:

• comply in all respects with these conditions;

• not act or behave in any way that could bring the Competition into disrepute or compromise its integrity;

• not act or behave in any way that could inappropriately influence, or be seen to influence, the Jury or any outcome of the Competition;

• inform the Professional Adviser of any actual, potential or perceived conflict of interest, 

• cooperate fully with the Professional Adviser to provide any reasonable information requested, or to assist any investigation into potential breaches of these conditions.

 

Authorised communications

Except where these Conditions provide otherwise, all communications from Entrants or prospective Entrants, including questions, complaints and notices required or permitted by these Conditions, must be in writing and addressed to the Professional Adviser. Contact information is omoacompetition@gmail.com

 

Unauthorised communications

Other than as prescribed by these Conditions, each Entrant must not, in relation to this Competition:

• communicate during the Competition with any Jury member, representative of the Client, or any Adviser;

• make or be associated with any public comment about the Competition or another Entrant, or

• make public any confidential information obtained in relation to the Competition.

 

Lobbying or seeking assistance

Entrants must not request anything from the Client, any Adviser or any Jury member with the intent of securing preferential treatment, access to information, assistance or advice that is not available to all other Entrants.

 

Anti-competitive behaviour

Entrants must not engage in any collusion, anti-competitive conduct or similar conduct with any other Entrant or person in relation to their entry in this Competition.

Only when required by these conditions or when requested or authorised in writing by the Professional Adviser, an Entrant may form an association with another Entrant, for the purpose of collaborating and submitting a joint entry in the final stage of the Competition.

An Entrant may be immediately disqualified for any collusive or anticompetitive conduct.

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PROMOTION AND EXHIBITION 

 

Use of submitted entries

Provided that all Entrants have been paid all prize money in accordance with these Conditions, the Entrant agrees that the Client will have the right to use, store, publish or reproduce submitted entry materials in any way relating to the conduct or promotion of the Competition.

To this end, the Entrant grants the Client a world-wide, royalty free, non-exclusive, perpetual, freely transferable, sub-licensable and irrevocable licence to use, edit, and reproduce the Entrant’s submissions, subject to full and accurate attribution of the Entrant in each instance.

 

Exhibition of entries

The Professional Advisor will arrange for the public exhibition or publication, either physically or online, of all submitted entries. 

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Intellectual property and copyright

Subject to ‘Use of submitted entries’, ownership of all intellectual property rights and copyright in submitted materials and concepts remains with the Entrant.

The Entrant warrants that in preparing their entry there has been no infringement of the intellectual property rights and copyright of others, and that they have obtained any necessary licences or assignments from third parties.