Winners of DALI Lighting Awards 2024/2025 Announced

The DALI protocol delivers numerous benefits to lighting professionals, including energy efficiency, installation flexibility, and design freedom. As an open standard, DALI enables true interoperability between products from different manufacturers, paving the way for seamless integration and long-term compatibility.

These awards celebrate projects that make the most of those advantages – demonstrating the full potential of DALI in real-world applications.

For 2024/2025, the awards program was refreshed to better reflect the evolving lighting landscape. Application categories were consolidated into four: Residential, Commercial Interior, Commercial Exterior, and Industrial & Infrastructure. In addition, a brand-new suite of Innovation Awards was introduced, honoring excellence in areas such as D4i integration, emergency lighting, human-centric design, system interoperability, sustainability, and more. A special Emerging Talent Award was also introduced to spotlight rising stars in the industry.

These changes align with advancements in smart lighting, system integration, and energy-conscious design – and recognize the broadening impact of DALI technology worldwide.

And the winners are:

• Residential – Philips Dynalite – Atlantis the Royal
• Commercial Interior – bluebottle – 480 Swan Street + Australia Post
• Commercial Exterior – Synapse Wireless – Oracle Park, San Francisco
• Industrial & Infrastructure – Beijing Hanmingde Technology Development Co., Ltd.

Innovation Awards:

• Best Use of D4i – Synapse Wireless – Oracle Park, San Francisco
• Best Emergency Lighting Integration – Crown Electrical – Coogee Surf Lifesaving Club
• Best Human Centric Design – KUMUX & Inventronics
• Best Integration into Other Building Systems – Signify – BorgWarner R&D Building
• Innovation in Lighting – Sunricher Co., Ltd. – Zhongguancun International Innovation Center
• Sustainability and Energy Efficiency – bluebottle – 480 Swan Street + Australia Post
• Smart and Connected Lighting – Beijing Hanmingde Technology Development Co., Ltd.
• Emerging Talent Award – Malkit Singh – Heap59

Highly Commended:

• Tridonic – Illuminating the Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Commercial Interior)
• Signify – BorgWarner R&D Building (Commercial Interior)
• Sunricher Co., Ltd. – Zhongguancun International Innovation Center (Best Human Centric Design)
• Lumen Resources – Willowdale Residential Aged Care (Best Integration into Other Building Systems)
• mwConnect – Exploring HVAC and Lighting Controls Integration (Best Integration into Other Building Systems)
• Nilsen Networks Pty Ltd – Health and Medical Research Building (Sustainability and Energy Efficiency)

A panel of expert judges, including lighting designers, media specialists, and global lighting leaders, selected the winners and highly commended entries.

Paul Drosihn, General Manager of the DALI Alliance, said: “Our congratulations go to all the winners and highly commended entries. The quality of submissions was incredibly high, and choosing the standouts was no easy task. These awards truly showcase how DALI technology continues to push the boundaries in lighting design and performance.”

For more information on the 2024/2025 DALI Lighting Awards, visit > https://www.dali-alliance.org/awards2024/

Stay tuned – the categories and submission details for the 2026 awards will be announced in the coming months.