
ASHRAE Student Design Project Competition
Ages:Undergraduate
Type:Submission
Category:STEM
Scope:National
Contact
Katie Thomson
kthomson@ashrae.org
ASHRAE sponsors these competitions to encourage students to become involved in a profession that is crucial to ensuring a sustainable future for our Earth – the design of energy-efficient HVAC systems. ASHRAE will recognize the outstanding student design projects at the 2023 ASHRAE Winter Meeting scheduled for February in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
The student design competition 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.
The Integrated Sustainable Building Design (ISBD) competition's aim is to encourage students to extend their knowledge beyond the core mechanical systems. For the ISBD category, the final design level presented may be in a preliminary stage, as the competition's basic intention is to challenge students' imaginative thinking and creative engineering approach to the building and all of its systems.
Teams may compete in one of the three categories:
- HVAC Design Calculations
- HVAC System Selection
- Integrated Sustainable Building Design (ISBD)
- Low Life Cycle Cost
- Low Environmental Impact
- Comfort and Health
- Creative High Performance Green Design
- Synergy (with architecture)
Website: https://www.ashrae.org/communities/student-zone/competitions/2022-design-competition
Managing Organization: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
Contact:
Katie Thomson
kthomson@ashrae.org
Eligibility:
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 and 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.
Participating teams are NOT required to have an ASHRAE Student Branch at their university
Overview
ASHRAE sponsors these competitions to encourage students to become involved in a profession that is crucial to ensuring a sustainable future for our Earth – the design of energy-efficient HVAC systems. ASHRAE will recognize the outstanding student design projects at the 2023 ASHRAE Winter Meeting scheduled for February in Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America.
The student design competition 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.
The Integrated Sustainable Building Design (ISBD) competition's aim is to encourage students to extend their knowledge beyond the core mechanical systems. For the ISBD category, the final design level presented may be in a preliminary stage, as the competition's basic intention is to challenge students' imaginative thinking and creative engineering approach to the building and all of its systems.
Process
- HVAC Design Calculations
- HVAC System Selection
- Integrated Sustainable Building Design (ISBD)
Criteria
- Low Life Cycle Cost
- Low Environmental Impact
- Comfort and Health
- Creative High Performance Green Design
- Synergy (with architecture)
Participate
Website: https://www.ashrae.org/communities/student-zone/competitions/2022-design-competition
Managing Organization: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers
Contact:
Katie Thomson
kthomson@ashrae.org
Eligibility:
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 and 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.
Participating teams are NOT required to have an ASHRAE Student Branch at their university