Win $2,000 From ASHRAE Design Competition 2019

Deadline:

May 3, 2019

Location:

Florida

(Award)

Description

ASHRAE Design Competition 2019 :

ASHRAE calls for students to participate and become involved in a profession that is vital to ensuring a better future for our earth – the design of energy-efficient HVAC systems. ASHRAE will recognize the outstanding student design projects at the 2020 ASHRAE Winter Meeting to be held February 2020 in Orlando, Florida.

More Details

The student design competition’s guidelines provide enough background information to enable the teams to design or select the HVAC system for the given building or to design a sustainable building implementing an integrated building design process (the architectural and building design for sustainability, and its supporting mechanical and electrical systems) for the given program.

Opportunity Focus Areas:

Low Life Cycle Cost
Low Environmental Impact
Comfort and Health
Creative High-Performance Green Design
Synergy (with architecture)

Required Languages

English.

Eligible Countries

ALL WORLD COUNTRIES.

Program Period

May 3 ,2019 The deadline of the Competition

August 5, 2019 Winners will be announce

Eligibility Requirements (Criteria)

ASHRAE recommends that the project groups consist of at least two members from an undergraduate engineering or architecture curriculum for the HVAC Design Calculations or HVAC System Selection and at least three members (architecture or construction, mechanical & electrical) for the ISBD competition.
Team members can be from multiple colleges.
All team members must be enrolled during the semester/term in which they contribute to the design.
The submission for the HVAC Design Calculations competition must be in PDF format only! No separate visual aids will be accepted (PowerPoint, YouTube, etc.). Deliverable presentation should consist of a 35-page maximum technical report in PDF format only. Font size should be 11 pts, utilizing either Arial or Times New Roman.
The submission for HVAC System Selection competition is limited to 15 minutes visual aid (PowerPoint, YouTube, etc.) All PPTs have to be automated and not page by page click ALONG with a 30-page maximum technical report in PDF format. Font size should be 11 pts, utilizing either Arial or Times New Roman.
The submission for the Integrated Sustainable Building Design competition is limited to 15 minutes (PowerPoint, YouTube, etc.) ALONG with a 35-page maximum technical report in PDF format. Font size should be 11 pts, utilizing either Arial or Times New Roman.

Opportunity Cost

(Award)

Awards will be presented to the winners of each of the three competitions as follows:
- First Place: $2,000 plus a representative from the team will receive free transportation, two nights lodging and $100 expenses for attendance at the 2020 ASHRAE Winter Meeting to be held in Orlando where the award will be presented at the ASHRAE Plenary. A 24 x 36-inch poster is required for display at the ASHRAE Student Program.
- Second Place: A representative from the team will receive free transportation, two nights’ lodging at the 2020 ASHRAE Winter Meeting to be held in Orlando where the award will be presented at the ASHRAE Student Program. A 24 x 36-inch poster is required for display at the ASHRAE Student Program.
- Third Place: A representative from the team will receive free transportation, two nights lodging at the 2020 ASHRAE Winter Meeting to be held in Orlando where the award will be presented at the ASHRAE Student Program. A 24 x 36-inch poster is required for display at the ASHRAE Student Program.
- Rising Star: A representative from the team will receive free transportation and two nights lodging for attendance at the 2020 ASHRAE Winter Meeting to be held in Orlando where the award will be presented at the ASHRAE Student Program. A 24 x 36-inch poster is required for display at the ASHRAE Student Program.

How to Apply

First Step: ALL SUBMISSIONS ARE TO BE SUBMITTED ELECTRONICALLY via the ASHRAE FTP site. Only those teams that register will get the FTP site information and instructions for uploading entries.
Second Step: All teams that are registered participants of the 2019 Design Competition will receive the FTP upload instructions via email. If your team is not registered, you will NOT receive this information.