{"id":24511,"date":"2020-08-25T08:53:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T12:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/?p=24511"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:53:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:53:06","slug":"ncma-winners-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/2020\/08\/25\/ncma-winners-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Take Top Prize in National Concrete Masonry Association Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n

Reposted from the National Concrete Masonry Association<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herndon, VA \u2013<\/strong> Four college teams presented their unique, fresh concrete masonry unit (CMU) designs at the 2020 Unit Design Competition (UDC) during NCMA\u2019s virtual Midyear Event. Judges reviewed and scored the designs and results were announced during the live online event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team from North Carolina State University took the top prize over second place Mississippi State, third place Iowa State and honorable mention Ball State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to COVID-19, last minute changes were implemented to keep the competition in play. In lieu of physical story boards and prototypes, students were asked to submit video presentations to allow for an online jury to evaluate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFantastic video presentations\u201d said Jason Thompson, UDC\u2019s Structural Engineer Judge. \u201cThese students have a second career in multi-media and graphics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team of Joshua Albert and Clayton Johnson, all students at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina under the tutelage of Professor Vincent Petrarca, took first place. The team\u2019s design, dubbed \u201cChock Block\u201d, wowed the judges with its highly practical design that can easily incorporated into construction using conventional CMU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"chock<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Designed in response to traditional CMUs, Chock Block is a simple, extruded concrete masonry unit that improves the visual experience of concrete masonry while integrating into existing CMU masonry and making no structural compromises. Chock Block is a part of the team\u2019s Angle Face series with the Point and Valley blocks, a collection of blocks sharing a single change, a single move in form, versus traditional blocks. By organizing the angled faces of our blocks, a textured finish that plays with shadow is achieved, an effect amplified with integral coloring. The blocks are efficient to produce, ship, and install, and can easily become more than an accent at little to no extra cost. Through a modest change in design, the team was able to respect concrete masonry as a system and produce remarkable results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story and see student videos on the National Concrete Masonry Association’s website<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"\n\n\n\n\n

Reposted from the National Concrete Masonry Association<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herndon, VA \u2013<\/strong> Four college teams presented their unique, fresh concrete masonry unit (CMU) designs at the 2020 Unit Design Competition (UDC) during NCMA\u2019s virtual Midyear Event. Judges reviewed and scored the designs and results were announced during the live online event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team from North Carolina State University took the top prize over second place Mississippi State, third place Iowa State and honorable mention Ball State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to COVID-19, last minute changes were implemented to keep the competition in play. In lieu of physical story boards and prototypes, students were asked to submit video presentations to allow for an online jury to evaluate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFantastic video presentations\u201d said Jason Thompson, UDC\u2019s Structural Engineer Judge. \u201cThese students have a second career in multi-media and graphics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The team of Joshua Albert and Clayton Johnson, all students at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina under the tutelage of Professor Vincent Petrarca, took first place. The team\u2019s design, dubbed \u201cChock Block\u201d, wowed the judges with its highly practical design that can easily incorporated into construction using conventional CMU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"chock<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Designed in response to traditional CMUs, Chock Block is a simple, extruded concrete masonry unit that improves the visual experience of concrete masonry while integrating into existing CMU masonry and making no structural compromises. Chock Block is a part of the team\u2019s Angle Face series with the Point and Valley blocks, a collection of blocks sharing a single change, a single move in form, versus traditional blocks. By organizing the angled faces of our blocks, a textured finish that plays with shadow is achieved, an effect amplified with integral coloring. The blocks are efficient to produce, ship, and install, and can easily become more than an accent at little to no extra cost. Through a modest change in design, the team was able to respect concrete masonry as a system and produce remarkable results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the full story and see student videos on the National Concrete Masonry Association's website<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joshua Albert and Clayton Johnson, under advisor Vincent Petrarca, won first place in the NCMA 2020 Unit Design Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":24515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-post-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"showAuthor\":true,\"showDate\":true,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false,\"subtitle\":\"Joshua Albert and Clayton Johnson, under advisor Vincent Petrarca, won first place in the NCMA 2020 Unit Design Competition. This is the second year in a row that a team from the College of Design placed in the top three.\",\"displayCategoryID\":387,\"caption\":\"\"}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,10],"tags":[34,13],"class_list":["post-24511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external-recognition","category-newswire","category-student-experience","tag-_from-newswire-collection-277","tag-architecture"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24511"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29063,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24511\/revisions\/29063"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/design.ncsu.edu\/architecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}