At the 2018 Cabling Innovators Awards ceremony, held on Tuesday, September 11, nine customer-focused case-study stories received honors. All nine earned the higher-level awards—Platinum and Gold.

Cabling Innovators Awards administrator Patrick McLaughlin, who is Cabling Installation & Maintenance’s chief editor, commented that since the award program’s inception in 2015, he has encouraged the submission of these customer-focused stories. “For years our audience has told us that they find value in real-life customer-based descriptions of how products and systems get implemented,” he said. “We’re pleased that this year’s Cabling Innovators Awards program included a category dedicated to application stories, and that our judging panel determined these submissions were worthy of such awards.”

Below is a rundown of the award-winning applications and case studies honored at the 2018 Cabling Innovators Awards, including the companies involved in the project.

Detail on each project can be found in the slideshow-style display of Platinum and Gold award honorees.

The Waldinger Corporation—Platinum Award—General Cable, Innovative Lighting, Panduit

Creating more “lo” in “colo” suites—Platinum Award—Rogers Communications, Wirewerks

Coal generation power plant—Platinum Award—Grantek Systems Integration, Panduit

WiFi and PON installation for outdoor multi-use development—Platinum Award—The Wharf, Vision Technologies

Anthem transforms legacy data center into a model of efficiency—Gold Award—Anthem Inc., Chatsworth Products Inc.

Golf Channel—Gold Award—Belden, Golf Channel

Noosa Yoghurt—Gold Award—Malisko Engineering, Panduit Corp.

Children’s Health, Andrews Institute—Gold Award—General Cable, Panduit

Cogeco POP application—Gold Award—Cogeco Connexion, Wirewerks