AIA4SHELTER / Aletheia House DESIGN COMPETITION

RULES

Rules and Regulations laid out in this section incorporate all terms and conditions of the Competition.

The competition is presented and managed via this Web site.
The competition is open to all interested parties worldwide, regardless of age, discipline, or professional status, with the following qualifications:

• Finalists should be able to prepare construction documents suitable for the City of Birmingham's building and permitting purposes.
• The firms, professional partners, and immediate family members of competition jurors are ineligible. An employee of a juror is eligible to submit an entry if that entry is prepared without any assistance from the juror, including but not limited to, providing advice, materials, and facilities. See Anonymity below.
• Members of the AIA4Shelter Committee are eligible, so long as they did not have direct contact with the jurors.

An entry can be submitted by an individual, a team, or a firm/studio.

OWNERSHIP

Any and all materials submitted as part of a competition entry, including but not limited to drawings, renderings, photographs, photocopies, and digital files, shall become the sole and exclusive property of the Aletheia House and AIA Birmingham. All competitors grant to the Aletheia House and AIA Birmingham a worldwide, perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive right to use, copy, distribute, translate, modify, display, and prepare derivative works of entries, as well as the right to authorize such uses by others, in any medium now known or hereafter devised, for any purpose, including, but not limited to, publication and exhibition of the competition. Aletheia House and AIA Birmingham will make reasonable efforts to credit competitors at all times.

Rights to build the house based on the design entries are retained by the entrant, except Aletheia House and AIA Birmingham shall have the right to further develop and construct the four winning house designs.

By submitting an entry, competitors certify that the materials and ideas submitted to the competition are original and have not been previously published. Competitors additionally certify and that neither their entry, nor the use thereof, violates, infringes, or otherwise conflicts with any copyright, trademark, or property right of any third party.

Competitors acknowledge that Aletheia House, AIA Birmingham, and their sponsors may exhibit all competition entries in an online gallery, and a selection of competition entries may be chosen for physical exhibition and/or public display following the announcement of the winners. Aletheia House and AIA Birmingham will make reasonable efforts to notify competitors of any public exhibition or display entries through correspondence with the primary contact listed on the Entry Form.

Submission of an entry shall constitute and signify a competitor’s consent to the use of his/her name, address (city and state only), voice and/or photograph for commercial, advertising, and promotional purposes without further compensation.