PPG announced that its OLYMPIC® SmartGuard sealer and Ambient Reactive Extrusion additive manufacturing process technologies have earned 2018 R&D® 100 awards in the Mechanical Devices/Materials and Processing/Prototyping categories.
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Design firm Stantec has won top engineering awards for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park and Corning Riverfront Park, which are bringing new vitality to urban spaces in Rochester and Albany, NY. The project teams were honored by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) of New York in its annual 2019 Engineering Excellence Awards program.
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Each year, AIA Ohio spotlights distinctive projects designed by Ohio architects with the AIA Ohio Design Awards, chosen by a jury of exceptional and noteworthy peers from the field of architecture. This year’s jury chair was renowned New York architect Chris Sharples from SHoP Architects.
Read Moregb&d is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Women in Sustainability Leadership Awards. The ultimate goal of the awards is to create a central hub that identifies and connects the most powerful women at the forefront of sustainability. WSLA recognizes and advances these top-level female sustainability executives who then, in turn, support younger women with dreams of reaching such levels of success.
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World Monuments Fund (WMF) today announced Agence Christiane Schmuckle-Mollard has been awarded the 2018 WMF/Knoll Modernism Prize for their outstanding preservation of the Karl Marx School in Villejuif, France. For the first time in the prize’s ten-year history, a special mention was also awarded to Harboe Architects, PC for their preservation of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois.
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The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is recognizing two exceptional design projects with its 2018 Innovation Awards. The Innovation Awards recognize the exemplary use and implementation of innovative technologies and progressive practices among architects, designers, collaborators and clients. This year’s were Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab, Allston, Massachusetts – Shepley Bulfinch; and Stalled! – Joel Sanders.
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The American Concrete Institute (ACI) announced the winners of the 2018 Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards, who were honored during the Institute’s Concrete Convention & Exposition, October 15, in Las Vegas. The ACI Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards were created to honor the visions of the most creative projects in the concrete industry, while providing a platform to recognize concrete innovation, technology, and excellence across the globe.
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World Architecture Festival (WAF) last month revealed the winners of ten WAFX prizes, supported by WAF sponsor GreenCoat®. The prizes are awarded to future projects that identify key ecological and societal challenges which architects are actively seeking to address over the next ten years. These challenges span diverse topic areas including climate change, energy saving and carbon emissions, water wastage and shortage, ageing populations and health issues, reusable materials, smart cities, building technology, cultural identity, ethics and power and justice.
Read MoreBuilding designers: You have two extra weeks to nominate a project for a 2019 US Wood Design Award! The extended deadline for nominations is October 12, 2017.
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World Architecture Festival (WAF) last month revealed the 2018 winner of its inaugural Water Research Prize, supported by WAF founder partner GROHE: an innovative, community led water management system, designed by a team of students from Pontificia Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) which captures, stores, and treats rainwater and inserts it into pre-existing water networks.
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