Nominations for the 2026 Elliot A. Boxerbaum Award for Security Design Project of the Year are now open. The award will recognize projects that went live between July 1, 2025 and June 30, 2026. The Elliot A. Boxerbaum Memorial Award will be presented to a consulting or engineering company which designed and specified a qualified and completed security design project. It will recognize collaboration, design excellence, uniqueness, creativity, and administration factors which contributed to a highly successful security project.

The presentation will occur at the next CONSULT Technical Security Symposium

All valid applicants will have registration fees waived for the next CONSULT. Award project finalists and designers will be featured in Security magazine.

We congratulate Bala Consulting Engineers and Matt Ezold for their winning submission for the 2025 Elliot A. Boxerbaum Award on 900 & 801 Church in Nashville, TN.

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The Ed Chandler Security Innovation Award recognizes innovation emanating from the security consulting community. That innovation may be a process, service offering, or unique application of technology or product. This about introducing novel ideas, methods, or devices, and may be incremental improvement or radical breakthrough. Ultimately, innovation drives progress and change by addressing needs, solving problems, and creating new opportunities. Security-specific design companies, low-voltage system design companies, Architectural and Engineering, and MEP firms all qualify. Companies are invited to apply for this year's award, with innovations introduced July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026.

We congratulate ADRM for winning the inaugural 2025 Ed Chandler Security Innovation Award for the DEFENDER Security Management Platform.

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The security consultant is a vital link between a building or facility’s requirement for security and the successful installation of a system to meet that requirement. From risk assessment to security audit to system design to the details of implementation and practice, it is the security consultant who identifies, then turns requirement into reality. SecuritySpecifiers allows a variety of constituencies – OEM's, integrators, facility owners and operators, end-users, and architectural firms – to access an up-to-date listing of companies and individuals skilled in the design and specification of physical security systems.

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