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11 Projects Win EAE Awards

April 01, 2005 From American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc.

AISC will present Engineering Awards of Excellence to a 11 projects at the upcoming 2005 North American Steel Construction Conference (April 6-9, 2005 in Montreal, Canada). These prestigious awards give national recognition to structural engineering firms for innovation in steel-framed building projects.

Judges considered the total structural design with an emphasis on:

• A creative solution to the project’s program requirements;
• Application of innovative design approaches in areas such as connections, gravity systems, lateral load resisting systems, fire protection, and blast;
• Use of innovative construction methods such as EDI, design-build, or advanced computer modeling; and
• Significance of engineering achievement and elegance of design.

Project entries were judged in four size categories—less than $10 million, $10 million to less than $25 million, $25 million to less than $100 million, and more than $100 million.

The 2005 winners were:

$100 million and greater

• National Winner: Seattle Central Library – Seattle, WA
  Magnusson Klemencic Associates - Seattle, WA
• Merit Award: The Adaptive Reuse of Soldier Field – Chicago, IL
  Thornton-Tomasetti Group – Chicago, IL
• Merit Award: St. Luke's Hospital Cardiac Center and Patient Tower – Milwaukee, WI
  Graef, Anhalt, Schloemer & Associates, Inc. - Milwaukee, WI

$25 million or greater, but less than $100 million

• National Winner: William J. Clinton Presidential Center Museum Building – Little Rock, AR
  Leslie E. Robertson Associates, R.L.L.P. – New York, NY
• Merit Award: Jay Pritzker Pavilion – Chicago, IL
  Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP – Chicago, IL
• Merit Award: University of Chicago Graduate School of Business – Chicago, IL
  Thornton-Tomasetti Group – Chicago, IL

$10 million or greater, but less than $25 million

• National Winner: The University of Arizona Large Binocular Telescope Enclosure – Mount Graham, AZ
  M3 Engineering & Technology Corporation – Tucson, AZ
• Merit Award: St. Martin's Episcopal Church – Houston, TX
  Matrix Structural Engineers – Houston, TX
• Merit Award: Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library – Pueblo, CO
  KL&A, Inc. – Golden, CO

Less than $10 million

• National Winner: Desert Bloom Porte Cochere – Cabazon, CA
  ASI Advanced Structures Inc. – Marina del Ray, CA
• Merit Award: Davis Conference Center– Layton, UT
  ARW Engineers– Ogden, UT

This year's jury included:

• Larry E. Whaley, P.E., President, Haynes Whaley Associates, Houston;
• Ronald F. Middlebrook, S.E., Principal, Middlebrook + Louie Structural Engineers, San Francisco; and
• Benjamin Baer, P.E., S.E., Vice President, Ruben J. Baer & Associates Ltd., Skokie, IL

Full coverage of the award winners will be provided in the May issue of Modern Steel Construction magazine.

For more information contact:

Scott Melnick
VP of Communications
(312) 670-8314
melnick@aisc.org