Lutron Electronics is accepting entries for its 2026 North American Excellence Awards through 11:59 PM EST, Friday, July 17.
Established in 2003, the Lutron Excellence Awards celebrate the industry’s top integration firms for their technical mastery, design innovation, and outstanding execution of Lutron projects. In 2025, Lutron expanded the program by creating two distinct competitions — one dedicated to companies based in North America and another for integration firms operating internationally.
Winners of the North American competition will be announced at the 2026 CEDIA Expo in Denver, Colorado. International winners will be recognized at the 2027 Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) tradeshow in Barcelona, Spain.
The 2026 North American Excellence Awards categories are:
- Best Use of Motorized Window Treatments: Submit your most impressive application of Lutron’s motorized window treatments. Highlight the project’s design intent, the challenges you solved during specification or installation, and any unique homeowner or architectural requirements. Describe how the motorized window treatments integrate with the home’s broader control ecosystem and the impact it delivers.
- Best Integrated Project using Lutron Intelligent Lighting, Controls, and Window Treatments: Submit your most compelling project that demonstrates how Lutron intelligent lighting, controls, and window treatments work together to create a seamless, elevated experience. Describe your keypad strategy, system approach, and any integration with third‑party systems. Highlight why Lutron products were the right solution for the client, the technical or design challenges you overcame, and how the final system enhances the home’s performance, aesthetics, and daily living.
- Best Use of Intelligent Lighting Systems: Submit a standout project featuring a Lutron intelligent lighting system. Describe why intelligent lighting was essential for this home, how the system’s capabilities enhance aesthetics and functionality, and the ways it improves the homeowner’s daily living experience.
- Best Renovation/Retrofit Project: Highlight a renovation or retrofit where Lutron wireless solutions played a pivotal role. Share how you met client expectations, overcame structural or wiring limitations, and kept the project timeline and design vision intact through thoughtful application of Lutron technology.
- Best Collaboration with an Architect, Interior Designer, or Lighting Designer: Describe your collaborative efforts with an architect, interior designer, or lighting designer. Explain how you aligned technology with the project’s architectural or interior vision, balanced homeowner expectations, and built a relationship that led to deeper collaboration and future opportunities.
- Best Overall Project from a New Lutron Dealer: For dealers who have been with Lutron for two years or less, submit the project that best represents your capabilities, craftsmanship, and commitment to delivering exceptional Lutron experiences — and tell us why it deserves recognition.
- Best Collaboration with a Builder or Developer: Submit a project where your partnership with a builder or developer led to an exceptional outcome. Describe how you worked together to integrate lighting, shading, or control solutions into the build process, how you aligned on design and technology goals, and how this collaboration strengthened your ongoing relationship.
Click here to access the entry portal, rules, and regulations for North America-based companies.
Details of the International Excellence Awards competition, including categories, entry deadlines, and more, are coming soon.
The 2026 Lutron Excellence Awards judges are: Dennis Burger (Audio Unleashed), Zachary Comeau (CE Pro), Cindy Davis (AV Technology/Residential Systems), Rob Stott (Connected Design), and Jonathan Takiff (Techlicious/TechHive).
For more information, visit lutron.com.
