| Award Type | Description |
| Quality Excellence Award | ONLY One Quality Excellence Award will be presented to a project within the territorial limits of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region with outstanding OVERALL quality and is the BEST among all the Grand Award Winners. |
| Grand Awards* | There will be a Grand Award Winner(s) for each nomination category. This is the highest recognition to projects at the category level. |
| Merits* | There will be recognition of merit(s) for each nomination category. |
| Finalists | There will be recognition of finalist(s) for each nomination who has / have passed the first screening, site visits and delivered a presentation at the Finalist Presentation to Jury Panel cum Conference. |
* QBA 2016 Organizing Committee reserves the right not to bestow an award if the Jury Panel considers no nomination is worth receiving that particular award. The decision of the Jury Panel shall be final.
