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2025 Awards Application Form

Complete all required fields and as many optional fields as possible and submit your awards application by 8:00pm ET on Friday June 27, 2025.

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.

New for 2025 – Innovative Product Award!
Have a game-changing product for CFS framing? We want to know! This year, we've added an Innovative Product category—fill out the designated form fields to enter.

Contact Information

Project Details

Presentation

The judging panel will consider the following when they are evaluating project entries.
  1. Photo quality: clear, bright, professional.
  2. Photo captions quality: descriptive, but without naming specific companies or products.
  3. Narrative quality: compelling storytelling that describes the design quality, installation complexity, manufacturing complexity, overall job quality, the conversion from another material (if applicable) or any unique feature about the project that the judges should know.
The next section includes several prompts and questions to help you tell the project story. The more detail you can provide here will help the judges assess your entry and evaluate it against other entries.

Deductions

Submissions should be agnostic for the judges. Companies, product names and the project itself should not be named in any materials submitted. In your project descriptions, do NOT use:
  • project name
  • material brand names
  • company name

Quality of the Project

This section includes several prompts and questions to help you tell the project story. The details you provide here will help the judges assess your entry and evaluate it against other entries.

Project Images, Videos, Renderings and File Uploads

Please upload your project photos, videos, renderings and files in this section. Include images from during construction as well as completed project images. Reminder: blur out project or company names.

If you have more Project files to share or if it is easier, copy/paste the link to a shareable folder here:

Extra Consideration

The judges will use the following information as extra consideration when breaking a tie between projects.

(Members can be from any SFIA membership category, click here to confirm if project partners are SFIA members)

Innovative Project – NEW!

Use this section to submit your innovative product for award consideration. Note that products need to be related to the CFS framing industry. These products can come from any SFIA member.

Tell us when you launched this product. (Must be within the past 24 months to be considered for an award)
Tell us what makes your product amazing! Highlight things like cost and time savings, increased safety, performance, anything that best showcases your product's innovation.

Reminder! Blur out company names or any identifying features that would allow judges to know who the submission came from.

If you have more Product files to share or if it is easier, copy/paste the link to a shareable folder here:

Image and Video Permissions

Image and Video Permissions:*
These permissions apply to Project and Product files uploaded.

Terms and Conditions

  1. All projects must feature SFIA certified cold-formed steel (CFS) products to qualify for entry in the competition.
  2. All Innovative Products submitted must be an original offering from the SFIA member company or a product for which the SFIA member company holds exclusive manufacturing or distribution rights and must have been launched within the past 24 months.
  3. All SFIA members are eligible to participate in the competition.
  4. Applications must be submitted by 8:00pm ET on Friday June 27, 2025.
  5. A winner and honorable mention can be awarded for each award category.
  6. If suitable submissions are not received for each award category, a winner is not required to be determined. This decision will be at the judging panel’s sole discretion.
  7. Each submitted project is only eligible to win in 1 award category. Judges will determine most suitable award categories for each winning project.
  8. By submitting images, videos, renderings and files, you are granting permission to the Steel Framing Industry Association (SFIA) to use these images in any of their promotional materials, including but not limited to, use in presentations, case studies, on the steelframing.org and BuildSteel.org websites, etc. If uploaded images, videos, renderings and files come from other project partners or sources, you need to get their permission before submitting them.
  9. It is the responsibility of the member submitting the project to ensure they have proper permissions to share the files submitted to the SFIA for use in promotional material.


By clicking 'Submit' below, I understand and agree with all of the above terms and conditions and attest that all information contained within this application is true to the best of my knowledge.