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October 26, 2016

Unique Italian project wins top international ACI award; Seattle apartment honored

Photos from ACI/PR Newswire [enlarge]
The concrete in Palazzo Italia converts smog into inert salts.

An innovative structural system in Viktoria eliminated all interior columns.

The American Concrete Institute on Monday announced the winners of its 2016 Excellence in Concrete Construction Awards at the Concrete Convention & Exposition in Philadelphia.

The highest honor — the Excellence Award — was given to the Palazzo Italia project in Milan, Italy. That project uses a special concrete that converts smog into inert salts when exposed to direct sunlight. The concrete is also more fluid, allowing designers to create complex shapes like those found in the Palazzo Italia panels, which recall the branches of a thick forest.

A local project, the Viktoria apartment tower in downtown Seattle, won second place in the High-Rise Buildings category. The 25-story Viktoria was built with a two-way post-tensioned slab system that eliminated all internal columns.

The Viktoria team was Weber Thompson, architect; Turner Construction, general and concrete contractor; Cary Kopczynski & Co., structural engineer; and CalPortland, ready-mix supplier.

A video on the Viktoria can be found below.

Projects were entered from around the world, including France, Turkey, Australia, Mexico, Italy and the U.S. They were judged on architectural and engineering merit, creativity, innovative construction techniques or solutions, innovative use of materials, ingenuity, sustainability and resilience, and functionality.

Submittals for next year's awards are due by April 3, 2017. More information can be found at http://www.concrete.org.







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