Devil’s Lake Creature
The Devil's Lake Creature sits above Devil's Lake in Lincoln City, off of the Oregon Coast. Regatta Grounds Park, where the creature resides at the entrance, is subject to the harsh salt sea air as well as the...
Toyota Elephant Passage at Denver Zoo
Denver Zoo was originally constructed in 1896, so when the new Toyota Elephant Passage exhibit was in its conceptual stage, 116 years of knowledge and experience went into every aspect of the new feature, from the main structures to the smallest...
NREL Parking Garage
When the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado, decided on the critical protective coating for the exposed structural and architectural steel for NREL’s new $25 million, state-of-the-art solar array-powered parking...
Blast Deflectors, Inc. - JFK International Airport
The unveiling of the new Airbus A380 was a landmark in the commercial airline industry. The 555-seat double decker is now the largest aircraft in the sky, easily surpassing both the dimensions and passenger capacity of the Boeing 747. With its...
Council Bluffs Gateway
A duplex system of hot-dip galvanized steel over paint was chosen for the Council Bluffs Gateway project - galvanized steel for the corrosion protection, and paint for aesthetic reasons. The combination of paint over galvanizing is becoming more popular, as...
New World Center Soundscape
When most people think of a night at the symphony, they may not think of seven-story-tall musicians, blankets, and picnic baskets, but that is just what you will find at the home of the New World Symphony (NWS) in Miami...
Los Angeles Zoo’s Pachyderm Forest
The Los Angeles Zoo has added the "Pachyderm Forest" - Asian Elephant exhibit as their main focal point for the preservation and observation of these intelligent animals. The exhibit had extensive design specifications that required extra inspection along every step...
Bergen County Parking Garage Solar Canopy
The Bergen County Parking Garage Solar Canopy is constructed of steel joists and girders engineered specifically to house solar panels on the rooftop of the garage with no impact to the structures parking slots. Bergen County’s prior success...
ContemPLAY Pavillion
To fabricate the space frame, the choice of galvanized steel tube was made for aesthetic and technical reasons. The galvanization result not only created a soft gray color, it also proved to be the most durable and cost effective process...
DIA Parking Garage Stairs
Denver International Airport (DIA) found out the hard way painted stairs on the parking garage only last 15 years. After learning this lesson, the stair towers were hot-dip galvanized (HDG) to provide durability, and realize sustainable, cost effectiveness on that portion...
Cliffwalk at the Capilano Suspension Bridge
Cliffwalks' cliffside location makes it difficult for repairs to a painted structure that hangs 90 meters above the capilano river below it. Furthermore, the Cliffwalk is located only a few miles from the Pacific coastline that surrounds Vancouver, making corrosion protection...
Orange Bubble Express
Like a strand of Christmas lights strung to the top of the mountain, the vividly orange protective shields and glimmering galvanized steel of the Orange Bubble Express Lift chairs stand out amidst the crisp white snow blanketing the landscape. This...
Hambro Portable Parking Structure
A gleaming utilitarian marvel, the Hambro Modular Parking System is an ingenious construction with wide-reaching market implications. The system is a portable parking structure comprised of a parking deck and ramp, rails, and fencing elevated on support columns, all assembled...
Light Chamber at the Denver Judicial Center
With gracefully arched petals blooming skyward, the Light Chamber sculpture blossoming at the entrance of the Denver Justice Center utilizes organic curves and natural materials to generate a sense of airy, natural lightness and movement. Artist Dennis Oppenheim, who has...
Salvador Dali Museum
A fitting tribute to an iconic artist, the new Salvador Dali Museum is a work of art reflective of the artist’s characteristic juxtaposition of classical and fantastic elements. The structure, designed by Yann Weymouth and Novum Structures, features...
Center for Great Apes
With a winding maze of chutes and walkways woven throughout the treetops, the Center for Great Apes is a charitable organization created to provide sanctuary for chimpanzees and orangutans that have retired from the entertainment industry, completed research, or formerly...
Snow Bugs
Standing as playful gatekeepers to the ski runs of Park City Ski Resort (PCSR), a collection of 12 individualized “Snow-Bugs” serve to indicate terrain difficulty throughout the resort. With spherical, sharp toothed bodies and googly eyes, the bugs each...
Hess Tower
Though the Hess Tower may blend seamlessly into the skyline of downtown Houston, it stands head above the rest with its durability and dedication to environmental efficiency. With its tall, stretching rows of reflective window paneling, the structure seems an...
Knox County Bridge Rehab
Nestled into a lovely, pastoral scene, the Knox County Bridge was in desperate need of rehabilitation. The bridge, which was older and originally painted for corrosion protection, had fallen into disrepair and was facing the possibility of a complete tear-down....
Oeuvre Coburn
It’s a peaceful, bucolic panorama- heavy, muscled work horses heaving a load of logs over rolling pasture hills, a sleepy barn nestled into the trees beyond. It is a scene that invites the viewer to take a step...
Franklin Park Conservatory Ameriflora
The original specification for the Franklin Park Conservatory 80,000 square-foot expansion and renovation project was a 3-coat paint system. After months of marketing, construction meetings, and downright persistence, the specification was amended to hot-dip galvanizing with a 2-part paint system....
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
With scores of silvery seating rows spanning far into the distance, Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) is the largest race track in the world and an American icon. For decades the only corrosion protection used to protect the massive collection of...
Metrolina Greenhouses
Founders Tom and Vickie VanWingerden emigrated from the Netherlands in 1971 and initially rented a 20,000-square-foot greenhouse on 3 acres in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1972. One year later, the family moved to Huntersville, NC, opening a 40,000-square-foot greenhouse on 85 acres of land...
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Excellence in Hot-Dip Galvanizing Awards
Whether an artful sculpture glinting under the sun or a sturdy bridge arcing over the waves of a rushing river, galvanized structures can be seen standing strong and corrosion-free across the continent. The Excellence in Hot-Dip Galvanizing Awards seeks to recognize the special skill and efforts of galvanizers, fabricators, architects, engineers, contractors, and all other parties as they complete projects that will remain durable, beautiful, and maintenance-free for generations to come.
Project Gallery
The Excellence Awards Gallery is a collection of galvanized steel case studies. Pushing specifiers to think outside the box, the gallery represents a best of the best sample of the myriad applications utilizing hot-dip galvanized steel.
How to Enter
Submission to the Excellence in Hot-Dip Galvanizing Awards is open to anyone involved in the project though the online form. To provide the most complete submission, collaboration among all parties is recommended.
Latest News
Sustainability Prominent in 2013 Excellence in Hot-Dip Galvanizing Awards Winners
CENTENNIAL, CO - The votes have been tallied and the American Galvanizers Association (AGA) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2013 Excellence in Hot-Dip Galvanizing Awards. More than 120 impressive projects were submitted, representing a variety of applications of hot-dip galvanizing. All of... Continue »