How to Enter!

1. Contact your account executive to learn more about the program and to sign up.

2. Pay the required entry fee.

3. Submit your product or service through the entry form provided.

Deadlines & Important Dates

Deadline to purchase your entry:  11/29/24
Deadline to upload/submit your entry/entries: 12/13/24

Voting opens online 1/6/25 through 2/7/25
Winners announced 2/24/25

PRICING

New Product Zone & IPA Package: $2,520
Includes one product featured in the digital New Product Zone, one IPA entry in a single category. Includes VOTE HERE floor graphic (2' W x 2' H).

IPA Entry Fee: $1,545 - Includes one IPA entry only.
Includes VOTE HERE floor graphic (2' W x 2' H).

Additional VOTE HERE floor graphics: $300

Award Program Details *

Industry professionals will vote in each category on products and services that are entered into the program for the Industry Choice award. Experts' Choice winners will be selected by World of Concrete editors and industry experts.

Winners will receive a high-res logo and a press release template for marketing efforts. Winners will also receive signage for their World of Concrete 2026 exhibit booth.

The product categories are noted below along with suggested applicable products & technologies:

• Estimating, Project Management, Timekeeping 
  Technologies that enable contractors to plan, execute, coordinate, and monitor job site activies.
• Design / BIM 
  Technologies that allows contractors to design, evaluate and monitor a construction project.
• Mix Design Software 
  Technologies that allows producers to evaluate, monitor, measure te effectiveness of concrete recipes.
• Safety Equipment 
  Equipment, supplies, and technologies contractors and producers use to increase jobsite safety.
• Site Prep Equipment 
  Equipment, material, and technologies contractors use to prepare a site prior to concrete placement.
• Work Truck Equipment and Mgmt Software 
  Commercial vehicles, truck bodies, truck equipment, trailers and accessories.
• Automated Construction Equipment 
  Innovations that are adpating new technologies to common construction operations.
• Material Handling Equipment 
  Equipment, tools, and systems designed contractors use to handle, protect, store, and move materials and products on a jobsite. 
• Placing Tools and Equipment 
  Tools and equipment used to place, strike, screed fresh concrete. 
• Formwork and Shoring 
  Systems designed to support fresh concrete.
• Reinforcement 
  Materials embeded into fresh concrete or applied to masonry wall systems that form a matrix to resist forces, such as bars, wires, strands, fibers, or other slender elements
  
• Repair Materials
  Materials used to reconstruct, renew concrete and masonry parts of an existing structure for the purpose of its maintenance or to correct deterioration, damage, or faulty construction.
• Waterproofing 
  Materials incorporated in fresh concrete, positioned in concrete elements, or applied to hardened concrete to increase the structures imperviousness to water
  in either liquid or vapor state. 
• Coatings 
  Materials designed for use on concrete slabs during placement that protect, cure, extend jointing, and create special  industrial floor surfaces.
• Concrete Slab Materials 
  Admixtures, floor systems, joints.
• Sustainable Concrete Materials Materials that are help decrease a project's carbon footprint in either fresh or hardened concrete.
• Masonry Equipment 
  Equipment used by contractors to mix mortar, position materials, clean walls on job sites.
• Masonry Materials Materials, admixtures, and supplies used in the construction of vertical wall structures.
• Hardscape Materials 
  Materials used in the construction of outdoor spaces including pavers, segmental retaining wall systems, paving stones, outdoor lighting, and fire elements
• Repair/Demolition Tools & Equipment Equipment, tools, and systems contractors use to repair hardended concrete or masonry.
• Surface Prep Equipment used to prepare concrete/masonry surfaces for repair.
• Decorative Concrete Materials Materials applied to fresh and hardened concrete to color and texture. 
• Decorative & Polishing Equipment 
  Equipment, tools, and attachments used to treat fresh concrete, overlays, or hardened concrete surfaces.
• Precast and Block Production Equipment, systems, and supplies used to cast or manufacture concrete elements.
• Ready-mixed Concrete Equipment 
  Equipment, systems, and supplies used to produce, batch, and deliver fresh concrete.

* If a category has less than two entries, the category will not included in the award program, and the entry may be moved to another category with similar entries. You may enter more than one product in a category. You may not enter the same product in multiple categories.