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Design, architecture, or engineering competition for under 40 age applicants to win $10,000. Free entry. Deadline 15 Dec 2021.

JBC Masonry Innovation Competition

About JBC Masonry Innovation Competition

Designers have the power to help create resilient, healthy, just, and equitable communities. But solving global challenges to improve our world demands innovation. We want to see your bold new concepts that show how masonry can better our built environment. We also want to see new ideas that have the potential to change the way we design and build with masonry and create growth opportunities for our industry.

Whether you have a great idea that addresses how infrastructure like schools and healthcare facilities will change in a post-pandemic world, thoughts on how to address the climate crisis, insights on improving equity, or another innovative plan, we want to hear from you. Solutions can also explore innovations in materials, the construction process, new business models, or simply show a unique aesthetic and functional use of masonry.

Whatever direction you decide to take, your innovative solution should add value, usefulness, appreciation, and relevance to masonry design and construction. It can be either an improvement of an existing system or a groundbreaking proposal.

Imagined, proposed, and completed structures and systems are welcomed. The scale, size, program, and location are left up to your imagination, but your concepts should be both clear and constructible. We encourage you to model your solution in BIM and use BIM for Masonry (BIM-M) plugins and tools to make the most of your design.

Together with innovative architects and engineers, we can create a better built world for everyone. Show us your innovative solutions!

Who can participate?

The competition is open to:

• University students enrolled in a design, architecture, or engineering program.
• Architects.
• Engineers.
• Architectural and Engineering Firms.

There are 3 entry categories:

• Students: Undergraduate or graduate students enrolled in an accredited design, architecture, or engineering school.
• Young Architects/Engineers: Any architects or engineers under the age of 40.
• A/E Firms, Individual Architects/Engineers, & Cross-Category: Architecture/engineering firms, architects and engineers age 40 and over, and cross-category teams.

Multidisciplinary teams are encouraged in all categories to help facilitate a well-conceived solution, but individual entries are also permitted. There are no restrictions on team size.

Each team or individual may only submit one entry.

Awards/Prizes

• Student category: $5,000 awarded to student(s).
  • An additional $5,000 awarded to the specific school program in which the student(s) is enrolled. If student team members are from different programs, colleges or universities, the $5,000 award will be split among the different programs, colleges, or universities.
• Young architect/ engineer category (under 40): $10,000.
• A/E firm, individual architect/engineer, & cross-category: $10,000.
• Honorable mention: Honorable mentions may also be awarded in each of the three categories, with recognition to include special publication and promotion opportunities.

Monetary awards will be provided to 1st place winners in each of the 3 entry categories.

In addition to monetary prizes, winners will receive special publicity opportunities, including the opportunity to present their designs on IMI’s popular webinar series, which regularly draws hundreds of attendees across the country. Winners will also be highlighted in digital publications and honored during an awards ceremony.

Deadline

Application deadline is 15 Dec 2021.

Entry fee

There is no entry fee.

Some useful information

Please visit rules, FAQ and previous winning entries from the official website to take part in JBC Masonry Innovation Competition.