Awards Program
Ontario Construction News staff writer
The EIFS Council of Canada (ECC) has named this years ECC Architectural Design Awards Judging Panel.
The council says the awards panel will convene in early May 2020 to review and independently select the ECC Architectural Design Awards Program category finalists as well as overall Grand Prize recipient.
The panel may also select up to two honourable mentions in seven categories: 1) low rise residential, 2) mid rise residential, 3) high rise residential, 4) commercial/retail, 5) recreational/institutional, 6) hospitality, and 7) renovation/retrofit.
The judges are:
- Ted Kesik, professor of building science, John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, University of Toronto
- Robert Murphy, president, Murphy Partners Seniors Housing Architects
- Eric Poxleitner, senior architect principal, Keystone Architecture and Planning
- Nick Swerdfeger, principal, Barry Bryan Associates
- Anthony Zagaria, architect, LLA ARCHITECTURE+
The ECC says its as program recognizes design professionals and firms which incorporate EIFS into innovative and creative built projects. “The goal of the ECC Awards Program is to create a new benchmark in EIFS construction to assist design professionals in meeting Canada’s national objective of delivering resilient, energy efficient, and sustainable buildings,” ECC says in a statement,
The Awards Program is open to all architects, architectural firms, builders or design professionals that have designed and completed a project located in Canada that utilizes EIFS. Eligible projects must be occupied no sooner than Jan. 1, 2018 and no later than Jan. 31, 2020.
Project submissions must be received no later than 11:59 p.m. on April 3. Award finalists
will be announced on May 15 and will be recognized and celebrated at the EIFS Council of Canada Awards Dinner on June 10, 2020 at the ECC’s Annual General Meeting in Toronto.
For more information on the EIFS Council of Canada Architectural Design Awards Program and full details on categories, registration and submissions, please visit http://eifscouncil.org/eifs-design-awards-program,