AGA Announces 2011 Excellence In Hot-Dip Galvanizing Award Winners
Winning Submissions Capitalize On Innovation And Efficiency
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Shown above and below is the Hambro Modular Parking System in St. Lambert, Quebec. It received AGA's 2011 Most Distinguished Award. Click images to enlarge.
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Hess Tower, shown in the two photos below and appearing on the right in the photo above, was named AGA's award winner in the Building and Architecture category. Click images to enlarge.
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Recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award was the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Maintenance requirements have been drastically reduced since the implementation of a program calling for the disassembly, galvanizing, and re-erection of the track's seating sections at a rate of one per year until done. The project is shown in the photos above and below. Click images to enlarge.
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Centennial, CO –The American Galvanizers Association (AGA) has announced the winners of its 2011 Excellence in Hot-Dip Galvanizing Awards competition. Eighty applications presenting outstanding projects completed in 2010 were submitted to be independently judged by a panel of architects and engineers.
Throughout the 13 categories, innovation, durability, and environmental efficiency were hallmarks of the winning selections. Seventeen submissions were chosen to represent the best of each category, with the year’s highest honor across all categories awarded the “Most Distinguished” designation. That honor went to an innovative portable parking solution called the Hambro Modular Parking System. Also characterized by thoughtful innovation, the Mobile Training Tower was developed to be a low cost, portable solution for training first responders and law enforcement.
Introduced in last year’s competition, a “Lifetime Achievement” Award was granted to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a facility which has benefitted from and relied upon hot-dip galvanized steel for nearly 20 years for outstanding durability and maintenance-free corrosion protection. Rugged durability was also critical to the success of the busy Marathon Oil Bridge, spanning over 11 active railroad tracks.
The wind turbines housed atop the Hess Tower in downtown Houston make the structure stand head above the rest with durability and dedication to environmental efficiency, common themes among this year’s submissions. A similarly green endeavor, the Klug Hill Farm windmill was specially developed to decrease costs while increasing energy efficiency. Continuing to embrace environmental principle, the Knox County Bridge opted for rehabilitation rather than the waste of total demolition. The bridge now has a gleaming, natural zinc finish to complement the pastoral landscape.
To view a PDF of the winning projects, click here.
About the American Galvanizers Association
Serving the needs of specifiers, architects, engineers, contractors, and fabricators throughout North America since 1935, the American Galvanizers Association (AGA) provides information on the most innovative applications and state-of-the-art technological developments in hot-dip galvanizing for corrosion protection. Created to educate and train in the specification and use of hot-dip galvanized steel, the AGA maintains a large technical library, distributes numerous industry publications, offers free educational seminars, and provides toll-free technical support to the specifying community. To learn more, visit www.galvanizeit.org.