Florida Polytechnic University’s IST Building Wins National Steel Building Award

Chicago, IL – December 03, 2015 – (RealEstateRama) — The Innovation, Science and Technology Building (IST) at Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland, Fla., has earned national recognition in the 2015 Innovative Design in Engineering and Architecture with Structural Steel awards program (IDEAS2). In honor of this achievement, members of the project team will be presented with awards from the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) during a ceremony at the building on Thursday, December 10 at 10 a.m.

The IST Building is a National award winner in the category of projects $15 Million to $75 Million, making it one of only four projects around the country to receive the National honor. Each year, the IDEAS2 awards honor National and Merit award winners in three categories, based on constructed value: projects less than $15 million; projects $15 million to $75 million; and projects greater than $75 million.

The IDEAS2 award dates back more than 50 years with AISC. And about this year’s winning IST Building, Roger E. Ferch, P.E., president of AISC, said, “The entire Florida Polytechnic University IST Building project team has shown how structural steel can be used to create structures that combine beauty and practicality. The result is a facility that serves the university extremely well, while providing an example of what can be achieved when designing and constructing projects with steel.”

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