Legal Terms and Conditions

1. ORGANISING ENTITY

Pladur®, the leading brand in gypsum plasterboard systems, hereby launches, for the thirty‑sixth consecutive year, its annual Pladur® Construction Solutions Contest.

2. PARTICIPANTS AND REGISTRATION

Registration for the Contest is entirely free of charge. All students officially enrolled in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th or 5th year, in the Final Degree Project (P.F.C.) or in the qualifying Master’s programme at any School of Architecture or Faculty of Architecture in Spain or Portugal registered in this edition may participate.

Participants must be duly enrolled as students on the date of submission of entries, scheduled for April 2026.

Projects may be submitted individually or by teams of up to three (3) members. In the latter case, all team members must be registered at the time of submission.

Teams may be formed by students from different schools; however, a single school must be designated to represent the team, as chosen by the students themselves.

To submit entries, prior registration of each team member is mandatory via the REGISTRATION section of the Contest website: https://premiospladur.com/registro 

All registered participants will receive, free of charge, the “BIM Essentials” course. Once registration has been completed, each participant will receive a confirmation email containing the access link to the free course, delivered by the prestigious educational institution Zigurat Institute of Technology.

Contest participants are encouraged to follow the official Pladur® social media accounts on Facebook (www.facebook.com/pladuresp ) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/pladur_oficial/ ), where all relevant information will be shared, including news and key dates. Please remember to add the hashtag #PremiosPladur so that Contest images may be featured both on the event website and on social media.

3. PRIZE CATEGORIES AND CASH AWARDS

LOCAL PRIZES

In each school/university, the following local‑level prizes will be awarded:

Local Architecture Prize

• • Certificate for each team member and €400 per project.

• Invitation to the awards ceremony and participation in the Pladur® Iberian Awards.

• Networking with local winners, coordinators and jury members.
• One member of the local winning team will sit on the local jury of that university in the next edition (provided they do not participate as a candidate; otherwise, this role will be assumed by the Accésit).
• Coverage in digital media and press releases, social media and on the Pladur® website.
• Participation in the travelling Pladur® Awards exhibition, which will visit all participating schools in Spain and Portugal over the following year.
• Participation in the finalists’ exhibition at the Pladur® Awards Gala.

If a university has more than 10 entries but fewer than 25, a first and second local prize will be awarded. The second prize will have a cash award of €400 but will not advance to the final phase.

If a university has more than 25 entries, the school may opt to send both the first and second prizes to the Iberian Architecture jury and to the Construction Solutions jury. Both will receive €400.

Local Accésit

• Certificate for each team member.
• Coverage on the Pladur® website.

Local BIM Prize

• Certificate for each team member.
• Invitation to the awards ceremony, if selected among the three finalists.
• Coverage on the Pladur® website.

The Local Architecture Prize may also be eligible for the Local BIM Prize.

To hold the Local Jury and award local prizes, at least three (3) projects must be submitted at the school/university. Otherwise, if the organizing committee of Pladur® so considers, the entries may be reviewed by a committee composed of the school/university and Pladur® to determine whether the proposal attains the level of local representation in the final or progresses to the Inter‑school phase. In this phase, a jury will decide which projects advance to the final; the winning project will be regarded as the Local Prize for all purposes.

The Inter‑school Jury will be held prior to the Iberian jury and will be composed of the members of the latter. This jury will award one Local Prize and one or two Accésits, depending on the number of entries submitted, provided that the number of entries exceeds ten (10). The two top prizes and/or the two Accésits may not be awarded to the same school or university.

IBERIAN PRIZES

Winners of the Local Prize from each university will compete in the following categories:

Iberian Prize for Best Architecture Project, including:

• 36th Edition Trophy.
• Certificate for each team member.
• €6,000 per project.
• Media coverage and dissemination across press, interviews and official Pladur® channels.
• Invitation to take part as a member of the Jury for Best Architecture Project in the 37th Edition (one group member only) *.
• Invitation to the awards ceremony of the 36th Edition**.
• Presentation of the Best Architecture Project award together with the Managing Director of Pladur® at the 37th Edition.

*Pladur® will cover travel expenses and one night’s hotel accommodation, where applicable.
**Pladur® will cover travel expenses where applicable.

Prize for Best Construction Solution, including:

• 36th Edition Trophy.
• €3,000 per project.
• Certificate for each team member.
• Media coverage and dissemination across press, interviews and official Pladur® channels.

Iberian BIM Mention, including:

• 36th Edition Trophy.
• €1,000 per project.
• Certificate for each team member.
• Media coverage and dissemination across press, interviews and official Pladur® channels.
• Invitation to the awards ceremony for the three best BIM projects.

The project that wins the “Best Architecture Project” category may not also win the “Best Construction Solution” prize, though it may receive the BIM Mention, provided it has also been the Local BIM Prize.

Sustainable Construction Mention, including:

• 36th Edition Trophy.
• €1,000 per project.
• Certificate for each team member.

Media coverage and dissemination across press, interviews and official Pladur® channels.

4. JURIES

Local Prize Jury will comprise at least:

• The director of the school/university, or their designee, with voting rights.
• A professor and/or local architect not involved in coordinating the Contest at the university, with voting rights.
• An architect or professor expert in BIM, with voting rights.
• The student winner from the previous edition (provided they are not participating in the current edition), with voting rights.
• A Pladur® representative, with voting rights.
• The Contest coordinator(s) at each school/university, without voting rights.

The role of the coordinator and the Pladur® representative during the local jury shall be strictly limited to explaining the contest rules and listing the projects submitted. Under no circumstances may they provide any additional information or express opinions regarding the works.

The decision of this jury shall be final and may declare this phase partially or entirely void. The result shall be recorded in an official report, which will be made public once the Iberian jury has convened.

Jury for Best Architecture Project will comprise:

• A representative of the Consejo Superior de los Colegios de Arquitectos de España (Spanish Council of Architects’ Associations).
• A representative of the Ordem dos Arquitectos (Portugal).
• Three or four architects with recognized experience and professional standing.
• Two Pladur® representatives (one acting as secretary, both without voting rights).
• A representative of the student winners of the Best Architectural Solution from the previous edition, or failing that, of the Installation Prize.

Pladur® reserves the right to include on the jury, with voting rights, a representative of an official body or another specialist in the proposed theme.

Jury for Best Construction Solution will comprise:

• Five representatives of Pladur® installation companies, with voting rights.
• One Pladur® representative acting as secretary, with voting rights.

BIM Mention Jury will comprise:

• Two architects specializing in BIM methodology.
• A specialist in the development of BIM Objects.
• Visualization technical support, without voting rights.

One Pladur® representative acting as secretary, with voting rights.

5. SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Projects must be submitted digitally on the Pladur® Awards website, under ‘My Account’, section ‘My Project’.

The following recommendations outline the information that should be included on each panel: 

PANEL 1 

Development of the project idea: location, orientation and relationship with the surroundings.

PANEL 2 

Proposal at preliminary design level. Exterior at basic project level. 

• Plans, elevations and sections clearly defining the intervention.
• Visualizations, images or photos of models (physical models not accepted, images only). The student may use two panels instead of one, if desired.

PANEL 3

Construction details of Pladur® Systems (partitions, linings, ceilings…) that define the spaces included in the project, at the student’s discretion.

Must include:

Rationale for board selection; system composition integrated into drawings; construction details correctly integrated (no direct copy/paste from Pladur® docs). 

Only projects demonstrating mastery in the use and implementation of Pladur® details will be assessed.
BIM Mention: additionally submit an IFC model using Pladur® BIM objects, with systems correctly named and documented.

6. EVALUATION CRITERIA

Best Architecture Project — criteria:

• Originality; design, functionality and architectural quality.
• Spatial quality; integration with the environment (environmental, visual, social, etc.); interior/exterior relationship.
• Use and implementation of Pladur® Systems in project development (essential).
• Leadership potential of the chosen Pladur® board in the project.
• Feasibility of execution.

Best Construction Solution Project— criteria:

• Feasibility of execution.
• Level of definition in construction details.

Best BIM Mention Project— requirements and criteria:

To be eligible for the BIM Mention award, participants must additionally submit a BIM model of the project in IFC format, using Pladur® BIM objects.

Will be assessed:

• The effective use of Pladur® BIM objects within the architectural proposal developed under BIM methodology.

• • Projects will be assessed with the Solibri IFC viewer. All information from native software must be exported to IFC, especially all Pladur® BIM objects used.

• Without an IFC file, the project will not be assessed.

Sustainable Construction Mention 

Projects will be assessed based on sustainability criteria, especially passive design, use of natural resources, and thermal/acoustic comfort, according to correct application of Pladur® solutions and products.

7. PROJECT DELIVERY

Projects must be uploaded to the official Pladur® Contest website by 20 April at 23:59h. After this deadline, no entries will be accepted.
The date of the Local Jury will be set by each school, always respecting the final deadline established by Pladur®.

8. AWARDS GALA

All prizes will be presented at an event whose date and venue will be announced in due course. The winners of the Local Architecture Prize (excluding Accésits), the three best Local BIM Prizes (as decided by the BIM jury), as well as local coordinators and jury members, will be invited.

Additionally, a representative of the winners from the previous edition (provided they are not participating in the current edition) will be invited and tasked with presenting the award to the new winners, creating a symbolic link between editions.

9. LEGAL PROVISIONS

• Pladur® may declare null and void any work that does not contain all the requested data or fails to comply with any of the established evaluation criteria.
• All works that have been awarded in any phase of the Contest shall become the property of Pladur®.
• Pladur® will request from all winners, by email, the data necessary to process payment of the prize (name, national ID number and copy, bank certificate, SWIFT code, full address and telephone number). The request will be made prior to the awards ceremony and will include a one‑month deadline, duly communicated to the winners. Once the deadline for receipt has expired, prizes will be paid by bank transfer, excluding those who have not provided the data in due time and form.
• If you are a winner in any of the above categories and you do not receive the corresponding prize within the indicated periods, you may claim it at concurso@pladur.com . The right to claim shall expire in December of the year in which the prizes are awarded.
• Without prejudice to recognition of authorship and the corresponding rights, award‑winners authorize Pladur® to publish and disseminate, by any means, jointly or individually, the award‑winning works, assigning to Pladur® all intellectual property exploitation rights that may arise, without territorial or temporal limitation and without any right to compensation.

For its commercial and promotional activity, Pladur® will create a database of personal data and of the documentation received, in respect of which interested parties may exercise their rights of access, rectification, erasure or objection, in accordance with the European General Data Protection Regulation and other applicable regulations.