NC State/NCMCA Design Competition

Words: Dan Kamys

NC State/NCMCA Design Competition

NC State/NCMCA Design Competition

The North Carolina State University team of Shaan Hassan (left) of Carrboro, N.C., Jaybe Goethe (middle) of Wake Forest, N.C., and Jeremy Leonard (left) of Raleigh, N.C. has claimed the North Carolina Masonry Contractors Association Sigmon Memorial Scholarship Masonry Design Award for 2010 and will share a semester’s in-state tuition as their prize. NCMCA Past-president Doug Burton and Brandy Britt Thompson, an architect with the firm of Clearscapes in Raleigh, served as jurors for the October competition. The team was required to design and model a hypothetical masonry office building. The competition is part of Professor Patrick Rand’s “Architectural Construction Systems” class at North Carolina State University’s College of Design.?? The scholarship is named in memory of David, Randy and Dwayne Sigmon. The year 2010 marks the 10th year for the NC State/NCMCA design competition.

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