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There are two categories for submissions in the competition:

1. INTEGRATED BUILDING DESIGN

Integrated Building Design submissions require the preparation of a design meeting all of the programmatic requirements of the “THE PROJECT”. An integrated design approach should be taken so that the design components, working together, minimize resource consumption in construction and operations, while maximizing sustainability goals of energy efficiency, resource management and good design. The performance goal of the building design is Net Zero energy through a combination of demand reduction and renewable energy strategies.

The jury will select winners based on inventive ways entrants have integrated brick into their design to achieve sustainable development objectives.

Required Drawings

All drawings should be drawn at a scale appropriate to the design solution and include a graphic scale and north arrow as appropriate. Names of participants and their affiliations must NOT appear on the presentation boards.

  • 4 digital boards at 24” x 36” printed format or metric equivalent
  • Site/Context Plan showing adjacent buildings.
  • Floor Plan(s)
  • 1 Section (minimum)
  • Elevations
  • Three dimensional drawing(s) to communicate the character of the project.
  • Illustration of the use of brick as key elements of sustainable infrastructure and building systems
  • Wall section OR detail illustrating special environmental features Energy Strategy Narrative (12pt minimum)
  • Energy Calculations or Energy Model (12pt minimum) The competition recognizes that most energy modeling software cannot calculate thermal storage, thermal lag, ventilation impacts or other known passive strategies. Use of other programs and described assumptions is encouraged.
  • 500 Word Design Essay (in English) – to be provided in the on-line submittal template.

Describe the most important concepts of the design. The presentation boards should graphically convey the design solution as completely as possible and should not rely on this essay to communicate a basic understanding of the project. Names of participants and their affiliations must NOT appear in the essay or on the presentation boards.

2. TECHNICAL DESIGN

Technical Design submissions focus on the design of a single element, component, or methodology of a project using brick products. Design concepts can focus on, but are not limited to, such sustainable design objectives as: optimized energy performance; durability; recyclability; reduced site disturbance; storm water management; heat island effect; indoor air quality; material use reductions; and recycled content use. Solutions providing multiple benefits from a single application will receive extra credit. For example, Green walls have numerous benefits such as enhanced storm water quality and quantity reduction, evaporative cooling effects, habitat creation and reduction in urban heat islands.

Drawings that best show the relationship between brick materials and sustainable design objectives, such as floor plans, elevations, and sections; illustrations of key elements of sustainable infrastructure and building systems detail drawing(s), either two or three-dimensional, illustrating the key elements of sustainable infrastructure and building systems a three-dimensional representation in the form of an axonometric, perspective, or model photographs.

All drawings should be drawn at a scale appropriate to the design solution and include a graphic scale and north arrow as appropriate.

  • Illustration of technical proposal (Scale: as appropriate)
  • Illustrations and Narrative explaining your proposal and its application to brick and/or building construction or operations (see above)
  • 500 Word Design Essay (in English) – to be provided in the submittal template.
    Describe the most important concepts of the design. The presentation boards should graphically convey the design solution as completely as possible and should not rely on this essay to communicate a basic understanding of the project. Names of participants and their affiliations must NOT appear in the essay or on the presentation boards.

DIGITAL PRESENTATION FORMAT

Submissions must be designed on no more than four 24” x 36” digital boards. All boards are required to be uploaded through the BrickStainable website in Portable Document Format (PDF) or image (JPEG) Files. Participants may use text or graphics that cross over from board to board. A graphic representation of the intended board arrangement should be included. The names of entrants, schools, firms or other affiliations must NOT appear on any of the submitted material. All text copy on the submission boards must be in English.

ONLINE PROJECT SUBMISSION

Entries must be uploaded through the BrickStainable Competition website at www.brickstainable.com by 5:00 pm, Eastern Time, on December 15, 2010. If the Submission is from a team all team members will have the ability to upload the digital files. Once the final submit button is pressed no additional edits, uploads, or changes can be made. Once the final Submission is uploaded and submitted each student will receive a confirmation email notification.

A final submission upload must contain the following:
  • Completed online submission questionnaire including team members and faculty sponsors. Note: The names of participants, their schools, firms, or other affiliations, must NOT appear in the essay question responses.
  • Each of the four 24” x 36” boards uploaded individually as a high resolution Portable Document Format (PDF) or image (JPEG) Files
  • Evidence of presumed energy performance
  • Winning projects will be required to submit original files/images for use in competition publications and exhibit materials.

The registration process can begin immediately. You will be allowed to edit your entry up until the submission deadline, December 15, 2010.

ELIGIBILITY

This is an open competition available to all undergraduate and graduate students as well as professionals in the fields of architecture, engineering, product design, environmental and material sciences or any other related discipline. Entries will be accepted for individual as well as team solutions.

RESOURCES

The Brick Industry Association’s website www.GoBrick.com is a comprehensive resource for information on using brick for sustainable design.

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EVALUATION CRITERIA

This Competition is being created to encourage integrative thought about the creation of sustainable buildings and to focus that thought on a particular material, brick. Teams are encouraged to provide evidence of their design‘s performance in the form of energy models, calculations, diagrams and other materials. Design AND performance will be the basis of selecting the competition award winners. The jury will select winners in each category based on:

  1. Strength of sustainable design strategies and the project’s ability to support the design concepts.
  2. Strength of evidence that the project can achieve net-zero energy performance (Integrated Building Design).
  3. Expressed understanding of the material (Brick).
  4. Mature awareness and innovative approach to issues of sustainability.
  5. Development of a well conceived site strategy.
  6. Design quality and aesthetic expression of items 1-5.

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