Adherence to PMI Standards
How clearly the project applies globally recognized project management principles, frameworks, and disciplined governance throughout the lifecycle.
Prestige Initiative
Celebrate the projects that raised the standard for delivery in Thailand.
The PMI Thailand Project of the Year Award recognizes outstanding project teams whose work demonstrates disciplined execution, measurable impact, and the kind of leadership that advances the profession across industries.
Nominations for the 2026 cycle are now being invited. Download the application pack, review the criteria, and prepare a submission that shows how your project delivered real value.
2026 Nomination Flow
Ready to nominate?
- Download the official application form and complete it with accurate project information.
- Have the form signed by an authorized representative of your organization.
- Scan the signed form and supporting materials into PDF format.
- Email the completed pack to info@pmithai.org with any project evidence, visuals, testimonials, or performance data that strengthen the judges’ understanding of the work.
Submission contact: info@pmithai.org
Program Status
2026 cycle
The chapter is inviting nominations for the next award cycle. Detailed dates can be announced here as soon as they are finalized.
2025
Launch year for the initiative
3
Budget bands for submissions
2
2025 honors already awarded
6
Judges on the independent panel
Why This Award Matters
National recognition for the project team and sponsoring organization.
Visibility across PMI Thailand Chapter channels and community touchpoints.
A flagship stage at the Annual General Meeting and chapter awards moment.
A case-study platform that showcases delivery excellence to the wider profession.
A chapter platform for project excellence
The award was launched by PMI Thailand Chapter in 2025 to spotlight organizations that apply project management with exceptional professionalism, innovation, and business or social impact.
Eligibility Snapshot
Projects completed within the past three years.
Preference for projects delivered in Thailand or led by Thai organizations or investors.
Any industry is welcome, provided the submission demonstrates disciplined delivery and measurable outcomes.
Budget bands include 1–10 million THB, 10–50 million THB, and over 50 million THB.
Multiple submissions per company are welcome.
Projects should be completed within 18 months and not previously submitted to PMI global awards.
What kinds of projects can enter?
Judging Criteria
How submissions will be evaluated
Every nomination is reviewed by an independent panel with a focus on disciplined execution, meaningful outcomes, and the way the team responded to real project complexity.
Business or Social Impact
The measurable value created through the project, whether commercial, operational, sustainability-led, or community-facing.
Execution Excellence
The quality of planning, delivery, monitoring, risk management, and stakeholder alignment across the work.
Challenge Management
How the team responded to complexity, uncertainty, and difficult constraints with sound judgment and effective decision-making.
Stakeholder Engagement
The strength of communication, stakeholder trust, and alignment throughout the project journey.
Organizational Learning
The broader contribution to team capability, institutional learning, and future project performance.
2025 Winners
The first honorees set the benchmark
The inaugural year recognized both a flagship overall winner and a special recognition project that demonstrated outstanding value creation under constraint.
Thai Nippon Steel Engineering & Construction
Recognized for a high-stakes offshore project that reused and modified existing topsides instead of replacing them, combining schedule certainty, CAPEX discipline, safety excellence, and sustainability-led thinking.
TeraHop (Thailand)
Honored for using a small, disciplined project team plus AI-driven analysis to remove manufacturing bottlenecks and exceed performance targets without new capital investment.
Meet the Judges
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Independent review by senior practitioners
The panel combines delivery, consulting, engineering, technology, finance, and chapter leadership experience to ensure every submission is reviewed with rigor and professional integrity.
Klaus Rappolt
Senior Director, Capgemini Financial Services Global Business Unit (APAC)
Brings decades of experience across large-scale, complex, and multi-country programs, with deep exposure to ERP rollouts, PMO leadership, solution architecture, and consulting across financial services, real estate, media, pharma, construction, services, and manufacturing.
Palanichamy Muthiah
Consultant in business process optimization, delivery excellence, change management, and project management
Has more than 30 years of leadership experience across IT and telecom, including multi-country complex delivery programs with budgets up to USD 35 million and a strong record of operational improvement across Asia Pacific and Japan.
Veerachai Suvarnapruksa
Senior Facilities Support Engineer and upstream oil & gas operations specialist
Offers extensive project and operational experience spanning drilling, completions, production, logistics, FPSO/FSO management, and national energy-sector greenfield and brownfield projects.
Tze Ee Ong
Senior Project Manager
A results-driven project leader with more than 28 years in IT and over 20 years managing global initiatives across software development, infrastructure, process improvement, AI, and automation for organizations such as Intel, Dell, and DXC Technology.