2012 WMA
Excellence in Masonry
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Thank you to all of those that submitted projects for the 2012 EIM Awards!
2011 WMA Excellence in Masonry Awards
Video Presentation
Best of Show
Spring Green Area Fire Protection District Building
The designers selected concrete masonry units for their durability, maintenance and appearance. CMUs were primarily used around the apparatus bay. The wall construction is single wythe load bearing masonry cores filled with foam insulation. CMU veneer with steel stud wall backup was also used at exterior walls around the office and meeting room portion of the building. Adjacent to the public entry of the building, the parade truck bay provides a prominent location to display the historic vehicles owned by the department as well as other local and historic treasures. From the exterior, this space forms a strong visual presence because of its central location with glass overhead doors and a curved metal roof.
Best of Concrete Masonry
Badger Railing
The owner and the City of Milwaukee wanted this first building in the Menomonee Valley to be a bold expression of what manufacturing buildings could be. The result is quite impressive...an animated, light-filled sustainable and lively facility with efficient spaces full of colorful expression and modern design. It’s a design that reaches for the future while standing strong in the face of industrial icons of Milwaukee’s rich history. This was achieved with the use of single-wythe, load bearing, Heritage™ concrete brick and decorative concrete masonry units. Nearly 22,000 square feet is dedicated to manufacturing and was required to accommodate the owner’s manufacturing process.
Best of Clay Masonry
Residences at City Center
This project was designed to complement the New Berlin City center’s mixed-use development. It provides a total of 84 dwelling units, divided as both row houses and apartment-style units with underground parking. Clay brick is the primary masonry element due to its long association with prairie style architecture. Orange-brown modular size units with a wire-cut finish were chosen for the brick. Brick is also used to provide colored accent bands and Prairie style accent motifs throughout the facility. Smooth-finish limestone in horizontal bands and sills are incorporated into the design. The building’s base and entrance components are constructed with integral cream
colored split face and horizontal chamfered split face concrete masonry units.
Best of Natural Stone Masonry
Petrie Residence
The owners of this residence near Wind Lake wanted to take a standard stock home plan and transform it into something uniquely their own through Prairie style architecture. The main floor was raised well above grade because of the slope of the site and the desire for an exposed walk-out lower level. This also provides a sense of airiness, privacy and better views to nature. Natural stone is the primary masonry element, and a thin-stone veneer system is used throughout the home, in a semi-coursed ashlar pattern. Several color combinations such as buff, tan, brown, orange and red are used, and stone is primarily at the base of the home in order to provide a plinth which anchors the home to the earth. There are also taller elements such as several pilasters and a stone wing-wall that flanks the exterior stair to the front door and terrace.
E2 - Energy & Environmental
Starin Hall at UW- Whitewater
In support of the project’s goal of achieving LEED® Gold certification, early design workshops were conducted and sustainable design concepts were used throughout the design process. Structure options included bearing concrete masonry walls with precast plank floors, precast concrete staggered trusses and plank floors, and steel staggered trusses and plank floors. Exterior wall options included veneer face brick and precast panels concrete panels with brick faces. In the final analysis, the most efficient and cost competitive approach was a brick veneer over bearing concrete masonry unit walls, supporting precast concrete floors. The typical exterior wall system
includes a 4” clay brick veneer with 2-1/2 inches of airspace, three inches of rigid insulation, an air barrier, and eight inches of concrete masonry units.
Concrete Masonry Excellence
Green House Four Season Retreat
Clay Masonry Excellence
Educator’s Credit Union
Natural Stone Masonry Excellence
Great Oak Lane Residence
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