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The Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) 2022 Student Design Competition opens to individuals and teams that wish to register on July 15, 2022. Offering more than $28,000 in prizes across two divisions—graduate and undergraduate—this year’s contest challenges architecture students to create an innovative metal building design for a new municipal fire station. Individual students or teams interested in this exciting opportunity can register at www.mbmaeducation.org with submissions due by January 6, 2023.
The Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) is gearing up to host its third annual Architecture Faculty Workshop for college and university professors nationwide. The two-day event will take place August 2-3, 2022, in Nashville, Tennessee. Registration for the program is now open at http://ow.ly/ooKz30sl6HL. MBMA will cover all expenses for architecture educators who attend, including travel costs, lodging and meals.
Each year the Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) honors member companies that demonstrate exceptional performance in maintaining workplace safety. These awards are given to Building Systems members as well as Associate members for their performance during the previous calendar year. Safety awards for the 2021 year were presented during the 2022 MBMA Spring Meeting held April 27-29 in Tucson, Arizona.
A good friend in the industry likes to point out that in every vehicle you drive, you’ll always see one thing that never changes—the rearview mirror is only a fraction of the size of the windshield. That analogy reminds us to remember what’s behind us, and that our focus clearly needs to be... Read more.
The Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) is pleased to welcome five new companies to its membership ranks. Sunward Steel Buildings joins as a Building Systems member, and four new Associate members include: RunToSolve LLC, Pacific Insulated Panel LLC, Simpson Strong-Tie Company and Building Envelope Consultants Ltd.
The Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) is pleased to announce the winners of its inaugural Student Design Competition. On February 15, 2022, the association acknowledged five students and their faculty sponsors in an online ceremony and awarded a total of $16,000 in awards.
The Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) has released its 2021 MBMA Annual Report, “Forging the Future of Metal Building Systems Through Education.” Additionally, MBMA has released a video overview of the 2021 Annual Report on its YouTube channel, www.youtube.com/mbmamedia.
The Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) has published the first report in its new Architectural Significance in Metal Buildings series created for undergraduate and graduate architecture programs. Kicking off a multiyear initiative to introduce students to metal building systems, the new folio explores the design challenges and outcomes of the Alamo Beer Company building project in San Antonio, Texas.
The Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) presented several awards at the 2021 MBMA Annual Meeting, held December 8-9 in Indian Wells, Calif. 13 members earn Industry Advocate Awards while Dave
Tomchack & Todd Carlson receive the Innovation Award.
The Metal Building Manufacturers Association (MBMA) elected its 2022 board of directors at the association’s annual meeting held December 8-9, 2021, in Indian Wells, California.