The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) is pleased to announce the recipients of its Design Excellence and Construction Innovation Awards, which were presented recently during the 2013 CFSEI Annual Expo and Meeting at the Hilton Financial District Hotel in San Francisco, California. The awards recognize outstanding achievement in creative design, technical innovation, and best practices in the use of cold-formed steel framing and are presented in two categories – Design Excellence and Construction Innovation.
o ClarkDietrich Building Systems, for the Western Connecticut State University Visual and Performing Arts Building.
The Construction Innovation category recognizes the use of an innovative product, process, tool, technique, machine or methodology to advance the cold-formed steel industry. There were two awards presented in 2013 to:
o ClarkDietrich Building Systems, for the use of Blazeframe™ fire-stopping system in a University of Massachusetts Lowell student housing project in Riverside, MA.
o Lakeshore Toltest Corporation (LTC), for construction of the Garraf Oil Field Housing and Support Facilities in southern Iraq.