San Francisco—The Antron® Carpet Fiber Design Awards honored the industry's best and the brightest at a ceremony last month, held at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. Innovation in product design, sustainability, and application were all recognized amongst other categories.

The grand prize winner of the 23rd Antron Carpet Fiber Design Award was Cohos Evamy integratedesign™ for its innovative use of carpet in designing the PCL Centennial Learning Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, to showcase the company's core business of construction. Most of the building features cast-in-place concrete and exposed building system elements, but carpet and suspended ceilings highlight gathering spaces. Atlas Carpet Mills' "Perspective," featuring Antron® Legacy nylon was the carpet of choice on the project.

The eighth Antron® Carpet Fiber Product Innovation Award top honors were given to Atlas Carpet Mills and Shaw Contract Group. The Avant Garde Collection by Atlas took the gold award in the broadloom category, and Shaw Contract Group's Silk captured the gold in the modular category. Both were recognized for their unique combinations of texture and pattern.

Antron also awarded a sustainable flooring performance grand prize to Ephrata Middle School in Ephrata, Wash., for a carpet installation in 1984 that is still going strong. The school's VCT tile was replaced with C&A Guardian I carpet, featuring Antron nylon. At the time, no schools in the district featured carpet.