The Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) has launched its inaugural collegiate Student Design Competition. The contest is intended to challenge undergraduate and graduate architecture students to create an innovative metal building design for a 1- or 2-story elementary school to house approximately 200 students. In addition to exploring design options, students are encouraged to learn more about metal buildings as a structural or construction system.
“Graduate and undergraduate participants will be full-time registered architecture students and each is required to work under the direction of a faculty sponsor through either a design, technology, structure or construction class,” says W. Lee Shoemaker, Ph.D., P.E., MBMA director of research and engineering. He emphasizes that no entry fee is required.
A total of $15,000 in awards will be made to students and faculty sponsors. “For student teams, the award amount for 1st, 2nd or 3rd prize will be divided and distributed equally to each member of the registered team,” Shoemaker says.
Jurors were named based upon their credentials, body of work, passion for innovation and design expertise. The 2021 jury consists of:
- Eric F. Pros, AIA, director of design, DS Architecture
- Terri Meyer Boake, LEED AP, professor, School of Architecture,
- University of Waterloo
- Lauren Gwaltney, AIA, senior associate, Williams Blackstock
- Architects
- John Underwood, P.E., consultant, Behlen Manufacturing Co.
- Robert Tiffin, national accounts manager, Silvercote
Registration is open from July 1 to Oct. 1 with submissions due Dec. 1, 2021. Winners will be announced on Feb. 15, 2022. All submission details may be accessed at www.mbmaeducation.org and questions can be addressed to Lee Shoemaker.