Student's green school design wins construction industry award

Each year the Modular Building Institute (MBI) sponsors its prestigious Awards of Distinction contest. As the only industry contest of its kind, MBI's Awards of Distinction reviews commercial modular building entries submitted by MBI member companies. Entries are judged in the areas of architectural excellence, technical innovation, efficiency and length of project.

Last year a green building design category was added to include university architecture students, with the winner receiving a scholarship of $2500 towards higher education. Because the category was so well received by the industry and architecture programs alike, MBI continued it in the 2008 award competition.

2008's first-place winning design comes from William O’Brien, of Concordia University.
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Our industry is moving into the world of sustainable design. We thought it appropriate to reflect market demand in our most competitive event of each year, the Awards of Distinction. What better way to introduce the value of modular design for sustainability than by allowing future architects to share their green building designs with the industry.

-Tom Hardiman, Executive Director, Modular Building Institute

About the MBI Student Design Competition

MBI's 2009 Modular Innovation: Student Design Competition will award a $2500 student scholarship, with the winning entrant's architecture program also being awarded $5,000.  Students who enter must be in architecture/engineering programs at four-year colleges and universities. Each entry will be reviewed by an impartial panel of industry and non-industry construction and code experts, architects and engineers, and marketing professionals. 

Complete contest guidelines are available at modular.org/awards where you will be prompted to register with the site (no obligation) and can download complete rules and regulations. Or, call 888.811.3288.