LSAA 2024 Design Award Categories

LSAA 2024 Design Award Categories

CATEGORIES

The Lightweight Structures Association of Australasia (LSAA) Design Awards are for completed projects since the date of the previous Awards (May 2022) and will considered in the following categories (modified for the 2024 Awards):

  1. SMALL STRUCTURES and SHADECLOTH APPLICATIONS            
    Domestic, Project area < 250m2
  2. MEDIUM STRUCTURES and SHADECLOTH APPLICATIONS
    Project area between 250m2 and 1,000m2
  3. LARGE STRUCTURES      
    Project area exceeds 1,000sqm. Examples Large Atriums, Stadia Roofs
  4. GLAZING AND VERTICAL FACADES
    Large span glazing walls or roofs, other forms of lightweight facades (cablenets etc) to control interior environments.
  5. SPECIAL APPLICATIONS AND INNOVATIONS
    Includes applications of lightweight structures used in an interior environment, manufactured as a product, and can be either temporary, demountable, relocatable or permanent structures.  (Interior structures, large awnings, shelter structures, are some examples). Applications using new technology and sustainability principles. Innovations in the teaching of collaborative design.
  6. INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS
    Any lightweight structure may be submitted that satisfies the Entry Conditions. International Projects probably would be judged in one of the five Categories above.