Alpine Named SBCA Innovation Grant People’s Choice Innovator for 2025

Alpine, an ITW Company, has been named the People’s Choice Innovator for the 2025 SBCA Innovation Grant with its Plan Comparison Tool. After being selected earlier this year as one of the 2025 SBCA Innovation Grant recipients, Alpine’s tool was showcased alongside other grant recipients on the BCMC 2025 show floor in Innovation Alley. Their solution stood out to attendees at BCMC, who voted to recognize the company’s work for its outstanding impact and potential to advance component manufacturing.

“This is a great recognition for Alpine as well as the dedicated team behind The Plan Comparison Tool,” says Matt Davis, Group President with Alpine, an ITW Company. “We’re honored to be recognized and even prouder of the team bringing this solution to life. It reinforces our commitment to providing component manufacturers with tools that maximize efficiency and productivity.”  

Alpine’s Plan Comparison Tool is designed to boost productivity, reduce errors, and streamline workflow by providing a single source of truth for everyone involved in a project. By automatically identifying changes and differences between two documents, whether images, text, drawings, or other elements, the tool ensures that revisions are clear and nothing is overlooked. This creates a collaborative communication system where everyone—from architects and engineers to designers, builders, and component manufacturers—can contribute their input with confidence, knowing The Plan Comparison Tool will capture comments or revisions and reflect them in the final product.  

For Diego Polanco, Product Owner with Alpine, an ITW Company, the recognition reflects the dedication and creativity of the team. “On behalf of the team, I am humbled to receive the People’s Choice Innovator Award for the SBCA Innovation Grant,” says Diego. “This win is for Alpine. Thank you to Alpine leadership for supporting me and the team of developers throughout this process. This product is helping solve pain points for our customers and the industry. Being named the People’s Choice Innovator is a motivator for the team. It helps to sharpen our focus on continuing to deliver meaningful solutions that support the industry.” 

The SBCA Innovation Grant program is designed to encourage and showcase new ideas that improve safety, quality, efficiency, and collaboration across the structural building components industry.

For more information about the SBCA Innovation Grant program and past recipients, visit www.sbcacomponents.com/innovation-grant.  Learn more about Alpine’s Plan Comparison Tool at: https://alpineitw.com/simplify-floor-plan-review/  |  https://www.sbcacomponents.com/media/sbca-innovation-grant-spotlight-alpine.