The theme of the challenge in 2023 is contemporary building design with indoor living walls. We are looking for innovative design concepts and analysis for integrating indoor living walls in commercial buildings. How does your design concept impact resources (e.g. energy, water, food), health, environment, and social-economical behaviors for contemporary buildings?
Registration Opens: 02/01/2023
Submission Deadline: 04/15/2023 (Midnight MST)
Competition Result Announcement: 05/12/2023 (Time TBA)
Individuals or teams (2-3 students) participating in the 2023 Design Competition need to register on the UW competition website and submit their competition materials before the submission deadline. Students from different majors are encouraged to collaborate and form teams.
Individuals, as well as team members, must be a registered student at the University of Wyoming in Spring 2023. If a team is awarded, each student participating as a team will have the prizes as described.
Be sure to check out the competition's Facebook Group if you are looking for others to form a team.
Competition criteria changes annually.
Summary
Provide a one-page summary (max word limit: 800 words) covering the key design concept, innovative features, and potential impact analysis for the integration of contemporary building design and living walls.
Poster
Illustrations of the design concept and key features
Brief design description (max word limit: 200 words)
Include the information of title, team lead, and members
All submitted work must be original work. Proper citations and references must be given if you need to refer to existing studies. Each submission will be reviewed by judges from industry and academia on novelty and creativity and potential impact analysis for contemporary building design.
See full competition criteria for complete project requirements.
First Place: 2TB portable hard drive and one of your favorite books up to $25
Second Place: 1TB portable hard drive and one of your favorite books up to $25
Third Place: Texas Instruments TI-36X calculator or one of your favorite books up to $25
Top winners of the design competition may have the opportunity to be mentored by Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management faculty and participate in selected parts of the research project on building integrated indoor greenery systems sponsored by the National Science Foundation as undergraduate researchers (1-2 openings) for Summer or Fall 2023.
Submissions are judged on competition criteria by the competition judging committee.
Final winners are selected from the judges’ recommendations and criteria scores.
Participating students will receive a notification stating the status of their project submittal(s) on April 28, 2023.
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Owner/ Principal, Valentina A NYC SBS Certified Minority and Woman Owned Business |
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University of Wyoming College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management Assistant Instructional Professor |
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University of Wyoming College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management Department Head, Associate Professor |
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University of Wyoming College of Engineering and Physical Sciences Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering and Construction Management Assistant Lecturer |
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University of Wyoming Department of Plant Sciences Extension Horticulture Specialist
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Please contact the competition organizer Liping Wang at lwang12@uwyo.edu with any questions on this competition.
Please contact Caitlyn Spradley at caitlyn.spradley@uwyo.edu with any issues with the website or submission for the competition.
