The competition is open to:
- University students enrolled in a design, architecture, or engineering program
- Architects
- Engineers
- Architectural and Engineering Firms
IMI’s JBC Masonry Innovation Competition wants your ideas for transformative masonry design. We’re challenging practicing and aspiring architects and engineers to advance the future of masonry design and construction.
Together with innovative architects and engineers, we can create a better built world for everyone.
Registration opens in the summer of 2023, in the interim, join us in celebrating the 2022 JBC Masonry Innovation Competition winners and the impacts of their work.
The competition is open to:
There are 3 entry categories:
Multidisciplinary teams are encouraged in all categories to help facilitate a well-conceived solution, but individual entries are also permitted. There are no restrictions on team size.
Each team or individual may only submit one entry.
Monetary awards will be provided to 1st place winners in each of the 3 entry categories.
In addition to monetary prizes, winners will receive special publicity opportunities, including the opportunity to present their designs on IMI’s popular webinar series, which regularly draws hundreds of attendees across the country. Winners will also be highlighted in digital publications and honored during an awards ceremony.
$10,000
$10,000
$10,000
Entries will be evaluated by a prestigious panel of renowned architects and leaders in the masonry design and construction industry.
The following criteria will be used to judge submissions:
Registration is currently closed. Please check back in 2023.
The online entry and submission system is currently closed.
During the online entry submission period, participants are required to submit the following deliverables as a part of their entry:
Participants are encouraged to submit all information they consider necessary to explain their solution above and beyond the required deliverables, including, but not limited to, video, images, written, or multimedia content.
Joan B. Calambokidis served as President of the International Masonry Institute (IMI) from 1995-2017.
The JBC Masonry Innovation Competition was founded in 2018 to honor Joan’s legacy of masonry innovation, including groundbreaking advancements in training, education, research, and technical development.
Joan’s leadership was instrumental in creating IMI’s renowned training programs for craftworkers, contractors, and design professionals. Her vision for training has helped to bring an unprecedented level of skill, quality, and craftsmanship to masonry construction projects across the U.S. and Canada. Joan also led the development of IMI’s International Training Center, a multi-building, state-of-the-art facility in Maryland that has educated thousands of craftworkers and design professionals since its opening in 2007.
During Joan’s tenure, IMI helped curate Masonry Variations in 2003, a National Building Museum exhibit co-sponsored by the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers (BAC) and IMI. The exhibit featured innovative works by four architects, demonstrating the versatility of stone, terrazzo, brick, and autoclaved aerated concrete. The installations explored the relationship between material, technology, and collaboration.
Joan was also responsible for the creation of Masonry Camp, a nationally-recognized IMI program dedicated to building collaboration between designers and craftworkers.
Through the JBC Masonry Innovation Competition, IMI honors and carries on the tradition of innovation that Joan established in the masonry industry.
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