CFSEI Announces Winners of 2022 Design Excellence and Creative Detail Awards

The Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) announced the winners of its 2022 CFSEI Design Excellence and Creative Detail awards. This year’s awards were presented during the 2022 CFSEI Expo which was held May 16-18, 2022, in Denver, Colorado.

The Lexington Convention Center, Lexington, KY, by raSmith won first place for design excellence in the category of municipal/services.

CFSEI Design Excellence Awards

The CFSEI Design Excellence Awards recognize projects that exemplify excellence in the structural design of new or renovated structures utilizing cold-formed steel (CFS) products. Entries are judged on design creativity, technical innovation and overall project excellence in CFS utilization in the Residential/Hospitality and Municipal categories, with Municipal subcategories covering cultural, services and sports projects. These are new subcategories added this year.

The 2022 CFSEI Design Excellence Award winners are:

Category: Residential/Hospitality

• First Place: ClarkDietrich Engineering Services, LLC—Selfhelp Freeport Senior Housing—Freeport, NY
• Second Place: Martin/Martin, Inc.—Hilton Garden Inn Madison Downtown—Madison, WI
• Third Place: McClure Engineering—Hub II on Campus—Gainesville, FL

Category: Municipal/Cultural

• First Place: Lochsa Engineering, LLC—Audrey Irmas Pavilion—Los Angeles, CA
• Second Place: Martin/Martin, Inc.—Meow Wolf Denver—Denver, CO
• Third Place: McClure Engineering—United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum—Colorado Springs, CO

Category: Municipal/Services

• First Place: R.A. Smith, Inc.—Lexington Convention Center—Lexington, KY
• Second Place: The Leffler Group—AIMS Welcome Center—Greeley, CO
• Third Place: ClarkDietrich Engineering Services, LLC—PortMiami Terminal V—Miami, FL

Category: Municipal/Sports

• First Place: Structural Evolution LLC—SoFi Stadium Pod Buildings—Inglewood, CA
• Second Place: Excel Engineering—Columbus Crew Stadium—Columbus, OH
• Third Place: ADTEK Engineers, Inc.—Darrell K Royal Texas Memorial Stadium South End Zone—Austin, TX

A description of each of the award-winning CFSEI Design Excellence projects is included on the CFSEI website.

CFSEI Creative Detail Awards

CFSEI Creative Detail Awards recognize a CFS detail that exemplifies creativity or ingenuity to solve a design challenge.

The 2022 CFSEI Creative Detail Awards were presented to:

• First Place: Structural Evolution LLC—Pounders Hawaiian Grill—Crestview, FL
• Second Place: McClure Engineering—Virgin Low Rise—Las Vegas, NV
• Third Place: The Leffler Group—Denver International Airport Great Hall Project, Phase 1—Denver, CO

A description of each of the award-winning CFSEI Creative Detail projects is included on the CFSEI website.

The United States Olympic and Paralympic Museum, Colorado Springs, Colorado, by McClure Engineering won third place for design excellence in the category of municipal/cultural.

Steel Framing Provides Solutions for Design Challenges

“It was gratifying to return to an in-person format this year after two years of a virtual Expo,” said Robert Wills, P.E., managing director of the Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute.

“We added new categories to the municipal category of the design awards competition to reflect the broader spectrum of projects that are utilizing the creativity and flexibility that cold-formed steel provides for a wide variety of design challenges,” said Wills.

“We congratulate the award winners and encourage engineers, architects and other design professionals to learn more about these innovative projects in order to stimulate new ideas for their own projects. We appreciate all of the entries that were submitted,” said Wills.