2024 product innovation awards
Cladding JAPANESE WOOD
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JUDGE’S COMMENT: Beautiful product. I appreciate the sustainable shou sugi ban approach to durability, eliminating harmful chemical preservatives, as well as the provision of an EPD about the product’s life-cycle environmental impacts. Incredible durability (reportedly up to 80 years) with little maintenance.
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Made from Japanese cypress, Gendai goes through an intense burning process to produce a strong, resilient, smooth and dark surface. Applied as wood siding and cladding, this product can be coated with 13 different finishes or left to naturally patina over time. The wood can last up to 80 years with little maintenance. and serves as a welcomed carbon-negative alternative to chemically engineered cladding products. Nakamoto Forestry, Gendai nakamotoforestry.com
FOR SUPER-INSULATED ENVELOPES
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WOOD WARMTH, STEEL PERFORMANCE
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JUDGE’S COMMENT: It is notable that these products use a blowing agent with zero ODP, have virtually zero GWP, and are free from harmful CFCs, HCFCs, and HFCs.
JUDGE’S COMMENT: I give this product high marks on innovation for bringing the process in-house and offering it in steel sheet when many other entities limit the wood-look finishes on aluminum.
High-quality polyiso Defend-R rigid roof insulation panels and Defend-R CI rigid wall insulation panels combine high value-per-inch insulation, a custom finished metal panel, profile-specific clips, and screws in a single system. The Defend-R line offers three rigid roof insulation panels with facer options that include fiber-reinforced, coated glass, and OSB. The Defend-R CI line features seven types of rigid wall insulation panels composed of a closed-cell polyisocyanurate foam core manufactured to various facer types in both standard and Class A variants.
Combining the warmth of wood with the performance of steel, TruSteel HD offers durable, long lasting cladding and garage doors. Leveraging a high-definition digital printing process, up to 32 ft. of material can be produced without repetition, and protected by an advancedtechnology clear coat. Available in galvanized and Galvalume, TruSteel HD options include rough sawn cedar, barnwood, charred and distressed wood.
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Steel Dynamics, Tru-Steel HD steeldynamics.com
Drexel Metals, Defend-R and Defend-R CI drexmet.com
LARGER THAN LIFE
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JUDGE’S COMMENT: A nice option for customizing a facade with photos and logos.
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Façades by Design enables images to be digitally printed on flat perforated sheets, linear sun controls, louvers, custom profiles and extrusions. Photography, graphics, patterns and color are printed through a powder coated application offering scratch and fade resistance. Applicable for branding, signage or wayfinding, this printing capability provides architects a great deal of creative possibilities. Construction Specialties, Facades by Design c-sgroup.com
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