The time to submit entries to the SFIA Awards, the Steel Framing Industry Association’s SFIA 2024 Industry Project Awards competition, has passed. The deadline was June 28, 2024, at 8 pm ET. Stay tuned for the announcement of the winners.
The SFIA Awards recognize excellence in the use of SFIA-certified cold-formed steel (CFS) products. This is the second year of the steel framing industry awards program.
- Projects must feature SFIA-certified CFS products
- Entrants must be SFIA members
- Contact Meredith Perez with questions
Are You an AWCI or CFSEI Member?
Hint: AWCI and CFSEI members who entered the respective awards competitions but did not win can enter the SFIA Awards competition. The SFIA awards program is a complement to the Design Excellence and Creative Detail Awards governed by the Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI), and a compliment to AWCI’s Excellence in Construction awards program.
The SFIA 2024 Awards competition is open to SFIA members only. SFIA members in any SFIA membership category can participate, but they must be a member to submit a project to the SFIA Awards competition.
Cold-formed steel (CFS) framing design drawings improve a SFIA Awards entry’s score in the minds of judges. Shown is a winning design by ADTEK Engineers.
The 2024 SFIA Awards has 6 categories, all of which recognize outstanding design and use of of cold-formed steel (CFS) framing. Shown is ClarkDietrich‘s 2023 award-winning demising wall at the I-X Center in Cleveland.
SFIA members can download the Contest Rules in PDF format from Dropbox and submit their projects using the official SFIA Awards Submissions Form. Architects, engineers, manufacturers, distributors, contractors and others can enter projects in the competition, so long as the projects feature SFIA-certified CFS products and the entrants themselves are SFIA members.
6 Categories of Awards
The SFIA Industry Project Awards will emphasize the innovative use of CFS framing. The 2024 competition will include entrants in the following 6 categories:
- Efficient use of cold-formed steel framing
- Conversion from another material to cold-formed steel framing
- Architectural design detail
- Sustainability
- Size of the job (quantity of cold-formed steel products used) in Low Rise (1-3 stories), Mid Rise (4-7 stories) and Super Mid Rise (8+
stories)
- Judging panel’s choice
The 2023 SFIA Awards recognized 7 SFIA member winners: ADTEK Engineers (winning twice), Negwer Materials, CEMCO, raSmithand ClarkDietrich (winning twice).
Download the 2024 SFIA Awards Contest Rules PDF.
Pat Ford (left), SFIA technical director, and Jim Collins (right), SFIA president, present Jeff Klaiman of ADTEK Engineers with a 2023 SFIA Award at SFIA’s Annual Meeting in March 2024.
Steel Framing Industry Association
The Steel Framing Industry Association (SFIA), a unique organization representing steel mills, coil coaters, stud and connector manufacturers, component fabricators, Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI) members, suppliers/distributors, contractors and others, provides members with exclusive access to technical cold-formed steel (CFS) framing services, including CFS certification, environmental product declarations, market data and analysis, technical design guides, specification review services, architectural services, the Steel Framing Learning Portal , the SFIA Awards and more.
Additional Resources
- The SFIA 2024 Industry Project Awards Competition Opens for Entry Submissions
- 2023 SFIA Awards: 7 Key Learnings about Using Cold-Formed Steel (CFS)
- SFIA Reveals 7 Winners of the 2023 Industry Project Awards in Online Ceremony