AISC Shakes Up Steel Industry’s Top Design Award for 2024

The American Institute of Steel Construction’s flagship competition for buildings is now accepting entries for the 2024 IDEAS² Awards. Entries are due by Sept. 30. AISC will announce finalists late this year and unveil the winners in early 2024.

AISC’s Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel (IDEAS²) Awards recognize outstanding projects that illustrate the exciting possibilities of structural steel. They are the industry’s most prestigious design honor for building structures.

Previously, awards were given based on the size of a project. AISC has updated the competition to focus more on innovation regardless of the project’s budget.

The judges will present IDEAS² Awards for:

• Excellence in Engineering – for projects that take full advantage of the flexibility of a steel structural system and demonstrate the use of new design and construction techniques
• Excellence in Architecture – for projects that use structural steel to create breathtaking structures that inspire and serve the communities around them
• Excellence in Sustainable Design and Construction – for projects that use design and construction methods that reduce a project’s carbon footprint
• Excellence in Adaptive Reuse – for projects that capitalize on how easy it is to use steel to give a structure a second life
• Excellence in Constructability – for projects that utilize innovative design, project management and construction methods that simplify, economize and speed up the design and construction of steel buildings

Winners will be invited to present their project to the industry at the Architecture in Steel conference, which is incorporated into NASCC: The Steel Conference (March 20-22 in San Antonio, Texas).

Visit aisc.org/ideas2 for more information and to enter.