Oldcastle Architectural’s Echelon Masonry brand has won two Architectural Products Magazine PIA Awards for its InsulTech Half High Concrete Masonry System and for Best Project for The Museum at Prairiefire, which featured Echleon’s Cordova Stone. Echelon also won Architectural Product’s Top AP 50 Readers Choice Award for the most reader inquiries based on its inspiring “Design Ideas Ignite” ad campaign.
According to Ken O’Neill, EVP, Sales, Marketing & Product Development for Oldcastle Architectural, “Awards from leading architectural publications such as Architectural Products Magazine are very gratifying to our Echelon team, because they indicate that we are going above and beyond to assist our customers, who are their readers. As we head into 2018, we will continue to help solve masonry challenges for masonry professionals, architects and construction professionals.”
Introduced in 2017, the InsulTech Concrete Masonry System’s Half-High product line is an extension to the popular, InsulTech full-high product line. With more than a dozen profiles in finished nominal dimensions of 12 1/4"W x 4"H x 16"L, InsulTech Half-High offers more flexibility and design options with thermal efficiency, continuous insulation, moisture management and great exterior and interior aesthetics. The InsulTech Half High is a structural concrete masonry unit with a molded insulation insert and on the exterior, a beautiful, lightweight stone veneer finish in several options all in one pre-assembled unit—saving time and increasing efficiency.
The project winner, The Museum at Prariefire in Overland Park, Kansas is an architectural marvel that combines Echelon Stone Masonry, natural stone and dichroic glass films that create fiery sparks of color. The vision of Jonathan Kharfen, AIA, LEED senior associate, Verner Johnson Inc. of Boston, MA, the 23,000 sq ft. of stonework is a mix of regionally-sourced natural limestone and manufactured Cordova stone veneer from Oldcastle’s Echelon line, with custom-blended colors that made his charred backdrop for the sun sparked “flames” come to life.
Themed with the intentional land management prairie fire burns, the LEED Silver museum features a rotation of exhibits from New York City’s American Museum of Natural History (AMNH).
For more information about the award winning InsulTech Half High product and how Echelon stone masonry benefitted the Museum at Prariefire, click here.
