Officers

Team Leads

Concrete Solutions

• The Concrete Solutions track focuses specifically on the concrete sequence of the project. Engineers are tasked with creating a schedule, estimate, and site logistics plan to tackle a variety of concrete focused issues. There is heavy emphasis on pour plans, site logistics, and labor rates. Team members are tasked with presenting to judges as a self-perform entity of a general contractor.

Awards

• 2018 – 2nd Place

Problem Sponsor: Sundt Construction

Design-Build

• Given a Request for Proposal from an Owner, the team works together as a single Design-Build entity to develop a design, estimate, schedule, and site logistics for the project. Members will be assigned roles such as Project Executive, Project Manager, Preconstruction Manager, Superintendent, Principal Architect, and Lead Designer. The team will need to present their proposal and convince the Owner that the proposed plan is worth the Owner’s contract.

Problem Sponsor: Swinerton

Commercial

• Commercial competition is a design-bid-build contract type. The problem statement is directly applicable to the construction industry, dealing with real-world problems as industry professionals previously saw them. As a member of the Commercial team, one will gain experience in the most common contract method in the construction industry and meet professionals that will assist in developing one’s knowledge.

Awards

• 2021 – 3rd Place
  2020 – 2nd Place
  2019 – 3rd Place
  2018 – 1st Place
  2018 – 4th Place, DBIA Regionals

Heavy Civil

Problem Sponsor: Granite Construction

About

• Heavy Civil construction involves highways, dams, ports, and bridges, and overpasses. The team mainly focuses on government infrastructure. We work with the plans to produce an estimate, schedule and site plan. Examples of projects the team has worked on are: Las Vegas Strip land bridge, South Tahoe highway renovations, and a bridge reconstruction in Santa Barbara

Integrated Project Delivery

Problem Sponsor: Clark Construction

About

• Present and defend a new form of construction contracting where owner, prime-constructor, and prime-designer will be coordinated. This delivery method will integrate people, systems, business structures, and practices to optimize project results. This is our only graduate team.

Awards

• 2020 – 2nd Place
  2018 – 2nd Place

Mixed-Use

Problem Sponsor: Morley Builders

About

• Mixed Use will assess the team’s understanding of key responsibilities for Project Engineers in our industry including prob estimating, scheduling, plan reading, bid analysis, site logistics, and quantity takeoffs. Mixed Use construction typically involves a bottom story for commercial use, followed by residential apartments in the above floors. Successful teams will display a thorough understanding of the project and provide well thought out solutions to subjects and problems issued throughout the competition.

Preconstruction

Problem Sponsor: PCL Construction

About

• Preconstruction is the engineering and planning that occurs before the construction of a building begins! We are given the description of a building and must create a complete schedule, estimate, and site logistics plan to present to the “owner” (PCL Construction), along with schedule and cost analysis of addendums that are released the day of competition.

Awards

• 2023 – MVP Award, Porscha Outlaw
  2019 – 1st Place
  2018 – 2nd Place

Project Management

Problem Sponsor: DPR Construction

About

• Project Management is highly focused on the details of construction management. The competition involves reviewing all contracts and documents for the project, including all subcontractors and owner contracts. The main goal of the Project Management team is to review all aspects of a given project and conduct a risk assessment for the overall project.

Awards

• 2023 – 3rd Place

Sustainability

Problem Sponsor: Skanska

About

• Sustainability’s main objectives are to understand how sustainability is integrated into construction projects and to recognize the importance of minimizing our negative impact on the environment. By becoming familiar with LEED, Living Building Challenge, and Envision cred- its, we can thoroughly analyze con- struction projects and propose design changes, comparisons, or mitigation procedures etc. The long-term goal is for all future projects to achieve net zero energy.

Awards

• 2023 – 1st Place
  2022 – 4th Place & Best Presentation
  2021 – 3rd Place
  2020 – 1st Place
  2019 – 2nd Place

Virtual Design and Construction

Problem Sponsor: Webcor

About

• VDC is the virtual design and construction team. We work with Building Information Modeling (BIM) software programs to help guide construction and identify clashes before they come up in the field. VDC focuses on three aspects: 3D Logistics and Coordination, 4D Scheduling, and 5D Estimation. For each focus, we learn different softwares to solve the different problems.

Awards

• 2022 – 2nd Place
  2020 – 2nd Place

Alternates

Problem Sponsor: Rudolph & Sletten

About

• Help create a proposal per commercial contract, including scheduling, estimating,
  site logistics, and risk assessment.

Awards

• 2023 – 1st Place (Team 25 – Miguel Hernandez), 2nd Place (Team 6 – Jonathan Bonilla), 3rd Place (Team 5 – Aditya Khalane)
  2022 – 1st Place (Team 23 – Jorge Wu)
  2021 – 2nd Place (Team 13 – Shinju Escobar, Phoenix Robledo)
  2021 – 3rd Place (Team 12 – Gustavo Oseguera)
  2020 – 1st Place (Team 6 – Ruihao Zhu)