Awards & Recognitions

QA Graphics was honored with four ADDY awards at the 2012 AAF of Des Moines' annual awards show, which honors Central Iowa’s best creative work each year as part of a three-tiered national competition.  QA Graphics was honored with a gold award for their Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard  created for the World Food Prize, silver for a 3D animation that was included in a local commercial, a special “interactive” recognition from the judges for the World Food Prize project, and one of QA Graphics’ employees was honored with the Rookie of the Year award for member involvement in the organization. 

QA Graphics’ Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard (EEED) was included in Consulting Specifying Engineer magazine's 2011 Product of the Year awards competition. Their product was included in the Networked Building Automation Systems/Controls, Energy Management Systems category of the Product of the Year competition. Learn more about this awards competition.

QA Graphics was honored with two silver ADDY® Awards at the American Advertising Federation of Des Moines’ annual ADDY® Awards show, which honors Central Iowa’s best creative work each year as part of a three-tiered national competition. The AAF of Des Moines is the local chapter of the American Advertising Federation.

QA Graphics was honored for their virtual configurator created for Vogue Tyres (view the application at www.voguetyre.com/3d/index.php) and for an Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard completed for a McDonald’s franchise in Riverside, California (view the application at http://www.greenmcdonalds.com).

QA Graphics’ Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard (EEED) has been named the 2010 top Energy Conservation product for the second year in a row as part of Environmental Design + Construction and Sustainable Facility magazines’ annual Readers’ Choice Awards.

The online contest allowed manufacturers and readers to showcase and vote for, respectively, the crème de la crème of green building products that best combine sustainable attributes with ease of use and installation.  The winners were announced at the U.S. Green Building Council’s® Greenbuild Conference and Expo.

Award-winning independent news source Sustainable Industries selected QA Graphics’ Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard as one of its 2010 Top 10 Green Building Products. Sustainable Industries’ Top 10 Green Building Products guide is an annual publication profiling industry-leading green building products selected by a panel of expert judges and Sustainable Industries’ editorial team. The Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard was selected from more than 100 entries based on the Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard’s environmental performance, scalability/market impact, innovativeness, design aesthetic, value and compatibility with the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system.  View the 2010 Top 10 Green Building Projects guide.

QA Graphics is a recipient of the 2009 Top Products Award from Building Operating Management magazine. This prestigious, annual award recognizes the most popular  manufacturers and suppliers of the year as determined by building and facility executives. QA Graphics was recognized for its Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard (EEED).

The Top Products Award recognizes products that appear on FacilitiesNet.com and generate the highest level of click-through interest from building and facility executives.  From October 2007 through September 2008, nearly 900 products were displayed on the FacilitiesNet.com home page. QA Graphics’ EEED finished in the top 10 percent of all those posted in 12 months.

QA Graphics is a recipient of the annual 2009 Readers’ ChoiceAward, an online contest organized by Environmental Design + Construction and Sustainable Facility magazines. 

The 2009 contest allowed manufacturers to showcase their green building products within nine different product categories, and then readers cast their vote for what they thought were the best green building products and the most easy to use. QA Graphics’ Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard was named the best energy conservation product.  The winners were announced at the U.S. Green Building Council’s 2009 Greenbuild conference.