Design & Build Professionals

New for 2010, CEDIA has launched a partnership with HGTVPro.com to award three Electronic Lifestyles^® Audience Choice Awards.

Voting is now open! CEDIA Members, homebuilding professionals, and anyone interested in home performance can visit www.hgtvpro.com/cedia to vote for their favorite home theaters, media rooms, and integrated homes from CEDIA’s Electronic Lifestyles^® Designer Awards.

Site visitors may tour these three categories of home technology and even drill down into each project for details like additional photos and descriptions about project goals and challenges. Voting ends September 10th and the winners in each category will be announced at the CEDIA Electronic Lifestyles^® Awards Banquet during CEDIA EXPO on Saturday, September 25.

Visitors can vote up to five times a day for their favorite design in each category. Forward this information to your clients, design and build partners, and anyone interested in residential electronic systems. Voting is open to anyone so VOTE NOW!

Today’s savvy homeowners seek more in residential electronics and CEDIA members provide resources and solutions!

Home technology is growing rapidly and “must-haves” like multi-room audio and video, networking systems, lighting control, integrated systems, and gaming spaces are more popular than ever before. Not only do homeowners want these commonly-requested technologies, they expect them to be easy to use as well.

When you partner with an electronic systems contractor (ESC), offering these products and systems to your clients is not only easy, but more efficient AND more profitable, as well. Your business will also be enhanced as you and your ESC partner guide your clients through the home technology design and installation process.

CEDIA members stay abreast of rapidly-evolving technologies and are established, bona fide businesses, held to the highest standards of continuing education. Our members are trained professional contractors who are knowledgeable and proficient.

You can locate a CEDIA member in your area right now, or learn more about the work CEDIA members perform. You can also view photos of award-wining projects completed by CEDIA Members.

To learn more about CEDIA and the benefits provided to design and build professionals, contact Dave Chic, Director of Industry Outreach at dchic@cedia.org, or by phone at (800) 669-5329, ext. 174.