The submission window for the 2024 SFIA Industry Project Awards is now open!

All projects must feature SFIA certified cold-formed steel (CFS) products to qualify for entry in the competition. Architects, engineers, manufacturers, distributors, contractors and others can enter projects, but they must be SFIA members to do so. A panel of industry representatives will judge entries using the following criteria. Deadline to submit your project is Friday, June 28, 2024 at 8:00 PM ET.

Contest Details and Rules

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The SFIA Industry Project Awards focus on CFS manufacturing and construction. The awards program is a complement to the Design Excellence and Creative Detail Awards governed by CFSEI, the Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute. Architects, engineers, manufacturers, distributors and contractors are eligible to enter their projects into the competition.

Winners of the Steel Framing Industry Association (SFIA) Industry Project Awards, which recognizes excellence in the use of SFIA-certified cold-formed steel (CFS) products, demonstrated extraordinary ingenuity. All projects showcase amazing steel framing design solutions.

Note that the projects must feature the use of cold-formed steel framing certified by the SFIA as code compliance, meaning that they have passed physical tests for mechanical properties, coatings and manufacturing tolerances, so our award winners are certainly ‘top tier’ in steel framing manufacturing and construction excellence.

2023 SFIA Industry Project Award Winners by Category:

Efficient Use of CFS Framing:
ADTEK Engineers, Inc. for Atlantic Crossing Building III, Delray Beach, Florida

Conversion from Another Material:
Negwer Materials for Valley Park Fire Station #2, Valley Park, Missouri

Architectural Design Detail:
ADTEK Engineers, Inc. for Ivy Mountain Musculoskeletal Center & Central Utility Plant, Charlottesville, Virginia

Sustainable Project:
CEMCO for University of Hawaii Atherton Hall Expansion and Renovation, Honolulu, Hawaii

Mid-Rise Project:
R.A. Smith, Inc. for 1122 W. Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Commercial Project:
ClarkDietrich/Competitive Interiors, Inc. for I-X Center Interior Demising Wall Buildout, Cleveland, Ohio

Curtain Wall Project:
ClarkDietrich for Grand Junction High School, Grand Junction, Colorado

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Announcements

Press Release - July 23, 2024
Don Allen Ready to Lead
SFIA's new ED begins Aug. 1
Don Allen, P.E., S.E., LEED AP, is the Steel Framing Industry Association’s (SFIA) new executive director on August 1. Allen succeeds Larry Williams, who is retiring. Allen says he is "excited to work and partner with the SFIA staff and leadership team" to grow the steel framing market.

Press Release - June 1,2023
On May 1, 2023, the Cold-Formed Steel Engineers Institute (CFSEI), the steel framing industry’s leading professional design association, moved from its former home with the American Iron and Steel Institute to become part of the SFIA.

Tonnage Reports - 2022
These reports provides buyers and users of cold-formed steel framing in the United States with an industry-wide statistical summary of the volume of steel.

A Fire Service Professional’s View

The increased use of wood framing in mid-rise buildings has been accompanied by a growing incidence of major fires that have destroyed these combustible structures both during construction.

SFIA Technical Guide - Release
Technical Guide for Cold‐Formed Steel Framing Products, provides with a comprehensive tool for designing with cold‐formed steel framing members.