Winners of the DALI Lighting Awards 2026 Announced at Light + Building

Organized by the DALI Alliance, the global industry association for DALI lighting control, the awards recognize outstanding projects that demonstrate the application and innovation of DALI-based lighting systems around the world.

The DALI Lighting Awards highlight projects that showcase the benefits of the open DALI standard, including interoperability, energy efficiency, installation flexibility, and advanced digital lighting control.

Interest in the awards program continued to grow this year, with submissions nearly tripling compared to previous years, reflecting the rapid global adoption of DALI technologies across residential, commercial, industrial, and infrastructure applications.

Entries were submitted from projects across Europe, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, and Africa, demonstrating the global reach of the DALI ecosystem.

Highlighting 13 winning projects and three highly commended projects, the awards program includes two main groups of categories: Application Awards, recognizing realworld project implementations, and Innovation Awards, celebrating technical advancement and new applications of DALI lighting control.

Application Awards Winners

• Residential – Zhuhai LTECH Technology – Estoril Court Luxury Residence
• Commercial Interior – Litelab – Hindustan Unilever
• Commercial Exterior – BEGA – Akershus Fortress
• Industrial – B.E.G. – Bosch R&D Manufacturing Facility
• Smart Cities and Infrastructure – Signify – Ezhou Huahu International Airport

Innovation Awards Winners

• Best Use of D4i – Crown House Technologies – Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
• Best Emergency Lighting Integration – Tridonic – American University in Cairo
• Best Human Centric Design – Elekon – Acibadem Kartal Hospital
• Best Integration into Other Systems – Flashnet – Washington D.C. Connected Street Lighting
• Best Use of DALI+ – Lightmoves & zencontrol – 500 Bourke Street
• Sustainability and Energy Efficiency –Tridonic – Illuminating AlUla Film Residence
• Smart and Connected Lighting – bluebottle – Gate 8
• Innovation in Lighting – Foster + Partners / Delmatic – Apple Headquarters, Battersea Power Station

Highly Commended

• Delta Greentech – Dishuiyun Hall (Commercial Interior)
• Helvar – Lublin Metropolitan Railway Station (Smart Cities and Infrastructure)
• Inventronics – Baotou Aluminum Co., Ltd. (Sustainability and Energy Efficiency)

A global panel of expert judges from across the lighting industry, including lighting designers, technical specialists, and media representatives, selected the winners and highly commended entries.

“Our congratulations go to all the winners and highly commended projects”, said Paul Drosihn, General Manager of the DALI Alliance. “The quality and diversity of submissions this year were exceptional, reflecting the continued growth of DALI as a foundation for smart, interoperable lighting systems worldwide.”

For more information about the DALI Lighting Awards, visit www.dali-alliance.org