Entry Date Requirements

  • Entries must be completed between January 1, 2023 and October 17, 2025.
  • Deadline for entries: Friday, October 17, 2025, 11:59 p.m. PST

Entry Fees

For categories 1 to 23: $225.00 + GST = $236.25 per entry

  • A single payment covers all entry fees for multiple submissions
  • Accepted payment methods: Visa, MasterCard, AMEX or cheque
  • Ensure your payment includes your category and entry number(s).
  • All payments must be received no later than Monday, October 20, 2025 to qualify for judging.

Note: The categories Best Supplier, Best Sub Trade, and Best Service/Professional

will be decided through a survey sent to all CHBA Central Interior builder members.

Entry Preparation

  • All entry materials must be anonymous.
  • Inclusion of company names and addresses anywhere in or on the entry materials other than the entry form is forbidden.
  • Do not include company names or logos on floor plans, digital images, or in project description. Any floor plans, digital images or project descriptions in these categories that include company names will not be judged.
  • We encourage you to use unique names not home addresses or street names.

Entry Form

  • Enter the 2026 Keystone Awards online from our web site www.chbaci.ca. If you are unable to enter online, contact the CHBA Central Interior office at 250-828-1844 for assistance.
  • Information given on the entry form will be printed exactly as submitted for news releases, publications, certificates, and trophies. Please take extra care to ensure all spelling is correct before you submit each entry. CHBA Central Interior will not make any corrections after the entry has been submitted.
  • If a project partner company or companies are to be recognized with your entry, please include their name(s) and contact information in the appropriate space provided on your online entry. Project Partners must be a member in good standing of CHBA Central Interior.

Project Description

  • Total word count for each criteria is 100 words.
  • Bullet form is recommended.
  • Text will be used to describe the project and specifically state how it meets the category criteria.

Digital Photos Submission Criteria

Photographic component of your submission must be in digital form on a USB flash drive. Images can be taken with a digital camera. Please do not submit more than the required number of images requested for each category. If you are taking the pictures yourself with a digital camera, be sure to follow the specifications below. Images must be clear; night photos of home exterior are not permitted.

  • Images can be horizontal or vertical.
  • Exterior, night time images will not be judged. Dusk images are fine (but not recommended) as long as the judges are able to see features of the exterior of the project.
  • Images to be saved at 300 dpi which allows for proper optimization for judging, website and gala presentations.
  • Max file size 5MB.
  • Save as a high-quality JPG file only. Do not submit pdf, tiff, gif, png or any other file formats.
  • Do not send re-formatted images that have been cropped and layered with borders or frames.
  • All images must be anonymous. Do not include people in your images unless required by the category (This may not apply to “before” images in the renovation categories).
  • DO NOT submit black and white or gray scale images, renderings, and digitally enhanced or high-definition images. Do not submit black and white “before” images for renovation categories. They will not be judged.
  • Please name files with community name or project name, category number and sequence number (i.e. hilltop_cat12_1.jpg).
  • For renovation category, please add to the sequence number a “B” to indicate a “before” image, and an “A” to indicate an “after” image (i.e.smith_cat4_1B.jpg/smith_cat4_1A.jpg).
  • All entry photos are to be kept private and avoid promotion on social media prior to the Gala.

Plans: Floor, Site, Landscape, etc…

  • All plans must be submitted digitally.
  • Submit simple and easy to read floor plan online.

Judging

  • Each entry will be judged on its own merit, based solely on entry materials provided.
  • Entries will be judged by a distinguished panel of highly qualified judges from outside the BC Interior region, who are selected for their expertise in their field.
  • An Accounting Firm chosen by CHBA Central Interior will monitor the judging process. No others will be allowed to observe the judging of entries.
  • 2026 Keystone Awards Finalists will be announced, and posted on www.chbaci.ca.
  • Decisions of the Keystone Awards are final.

CHBA Central Interior reserves the right to:

  • Cancel, combine or split any category due to numerous or insufficient number of entries or at the judges' discretion;
  • Withdraw a particular category if all the entries submitted do not meet the criteria or are not of a standard that recognizes excellence;
  • Withdraw any entries if they do not meet the criteria or are not of a standard that recognizes excellence;
  • Withdraw a particular entry if they do not meet digital image submission specifications.
  • Request any additional information it deems necessary to confirm the information contained in any submission.
  • Judges may also re-categorize any entry if, in their opinion, it has been entered in the wrong category, or if the entry is more appropriate in another category.

Return of Entry Material

All materials submitted become the sole property of CHBA Central Interior and Keystone Awards. CHBA Central Interior reserves the right to use any or all these materials for the promotion of the Keystone Awards. CHBA Central Interior will not return any materials submitted.

It is important to the integrity of the residential construction industry that all entrants must conduct themselves in such a way as to demonstrate good business practices. If it can be demonstrated at any time up to the final awarding of the Keystone Awards trophy that there are business practices detrimental to the integrity of the industry, that participant will be disqualified. Keystone Awards entrants and participants are required to accept all decisions by CHBA Central Interior as final and binding.

Deadline

The online entry form closes at 11:59 p.m. Friday, October 17, 2025. All completed online entry forms must be submitted by this time. There will be no extensions.