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ASHRAE sponsors these competitions to encourage students to become involved in a profession that is crucial to insuring a sustainable future for our Earth – the design of energy-efficient HVAC systems. ASHRAE will recognize the outstanding student design projects at the ASHRAE Winter Meeting to be held in Dallas, Texas, January 28th – 30th, 2013.
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. The ISBD category’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)
ASHRAE recommends that the project groups consist of at least two members from an undergraduate engineering or architecture curriculum for the HVAC Design Calculations and HVAC System Selection categories, and at least three members (architecture or construction, mechanical & electrical) for the ISBD category. Team members can be from multiple colleges. All team members must be enrolled during the semester/term in which they contribute to the design.
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. The deadline for registration is April 2, 2012.
The submission for the HVAC Design Calculations Category must be in PDF format only! No separate visual aids will be accepted (PowerPoint, YouTube, etc). Deliverable presentation should consist of a 25 page maximum technical report in PDF format only.
The submission for HVAC System Selection Category is limited to 15 minute visual aid (PowerPoint, YouTube, etc.) ALONG with a 30 page maximum technical report in PDF format.
The submission for the Integrated Sustainable Building Design Category is limited to 15 minutes (PowerPoint, YouTube, etc.) ALONG with a 35 page maximum technical report in PDF format.
The presentation should include, at a minimum, the following:
- Statement of category criteria and major goals
- Descriptions of how the design satisfied these criteria and goals
- A review of all major assumptions
- Descriptions of how and why the final HVAC system (HVAC System Selection) or integrated sustainable building design (ISBD) was selected
- Supporting calculations
- Relevant drawings and or schematic diagrams
It is imperative that the following information be included on the title page of your slide and PDF document (for the categories where PDF if required) : (all team members and advisors)
- Title of project
- Competition category
- Team members’ names
- Present addresses and telephone numbers
- Permanent addresses and telephone numbers
- Current e-mail addresses
- Students’ status (e.g., junior, senior, etc.)
- Students’ majors
- Date of anticipated graduation
- School name(s) and address(es)
- Faculty advisor’s name, address, telephone number
- Name of sponsoring ASHRAE chapter
- Names of local ASHRAE mentors (if any)
- Students’ signatures and date
- Faculty advisor’s signature and date
All of the above information is required, and furthermore, if missing, could result in teams not being able to participate.
Evaluation Schedule
What is the Evaluation Time Schedule?
There will be four levels of evaluation. Evaluators at all levels will judge the design project reports, not only for content, but also for compliance with the contest rules.
May 4, 2012
Entries must be submitted electronically by this date by uploading the entry to the ASHRAE Society FTP site established for this purpose. Only teams who register will get the FTP site information emailed to them, so please register at least 30 days prior to this date to allow for processing. Only ASHRAE chapters with registered teams will have the FTP site emailed to them as well.
Teams that do not have a local chapter are required to adhere to this same deadline. Your entry will be evaluated by your Regional Vice-Chair (RVC) for Student Activities.
May 18, 2012
Deadline for local ASHRAE Chapters to forward their selection of the best entry in each category to the Student Activities Regional Vice Chair (RVC). Chapters are to download the necessary entries from the ASHRAE FTP site for local judging. FTP site information is only distributed to those chapters that have teams registered to participate in the competition. Once your selection is made simply email the names of the entries to your RVC with a copy to tholman@ashrae.org by the deadline above.
If applicable, chapters should ALSO nominate a “rising star” as well. The Rising Star must be a school that does not qualify for the regional or national competition, but is a quality entry and the school has not had a winning entry in the previous three years.
June 1, 2012
Deadline for local ASHRAE Student Activities Regional Vice Chairs to forward their selection of the best entry in each category to ASHRAE Headquarters for national judging. Regional Vice Chairs are to download the necessary entries in your region from the ASHRAE FTP site for judging. Once your selection is made simply email the names of the entries to tholman@ashrae.org by the deadline above. All entries that pass regional judging will be submitted to the national judging committee for final judging.
If applicable, Regional Vice Chairs can nominate a “rising star” as well. The Rising Star must be a school that does not qualify for the national competition, but is a quality entry and the school has not had a winning entry in the previous three years.
June 23, 2012
National level competition under the direction of the Student Activities Student Project Competition Subcommittee will complete evaluation of national level entries, and will select 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in each category. In order to encourage additional schools to participate in the competition, a “Rising Star” winner will be chosen within each category from among those schools that have not had a winning entry in the previous three years. Please Note: The Society level of the competition is conducted during a closed subcommittee session and therefore, team members and/or faculty advisors, or other persons outside of the Student Activities Committee, may not attend. Any violation of this notice can result in a team’s disqualification from the competition.
August 3, 2012
1st, 2nd, 3rd place and Rising Star winners for each category are announced no later than this date. Awards will be presented to the winners of each of the three competition subcategories 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 ASHRAE 2013 winter meeting in Dallas, Texas where the award will be presented.
Second Place: A representative from the team will receive free transportation, two nights' lodging at the ASHRAE 2013 winter meeting where the award will be presented.
Third Place: A representative from the team will receive free transportation, two nights lodging at the ASHRAE 2013 winter meeting where the award will be presented.
Rising Star: A representative from the team will receive free transportation and two nights lodging for attendance at the ASHRAE 2013 winter meeting where the award will be presented.
Permission to Release, Produce and Copyright
By participating in the ASHRAE 2012 Student Design Competition, the student design competition team member grants and assigns to ASHRAE or its agent the rights, whole or in part, to distribute, publish, post and/or release the project as it may see fit. These rights include reproduction, translation, and citation. It is understood that ASHRAE does not accept responsibility for any content within the presentation that may be found to be libelous, infringing on copyright or other intellectual property rights, invading individual privacy or to be otherwise unlawful.
Project Guidelines
The project for the ASHRAE 2012 Student Design Competition’s project is The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library located in Chicago. All information on the facility can be found online at: http://mansueto.lib.uchicago.edu/
Design Competition Project Description
For the 2012 Competition, students are to develop their own CAD backgrounds based on the PDFs below of the mechanical spaces:
PDF
TIFF
Base load calculation on these window types:
There will be no CAD files available. Be creative!
Teams may compete in up to three categories; HVAC Design Calculations, HVAC System Selection, or Integrated Sustainable Building Design (ISBD includes Architectural, HVAC, & other Building Services design disciplines).
HVAC Design Calculations – For students who have attended 1-2 HVAC courses. Focuses on the design calculations required to provide an energy-efficient design for the facility. Students are required to determine heating and cooling loads, and design the selected HVAC system for the library, while demonstrating compliance with ASHRAE Standards 55, 62.1, and 90.1.
HVAC Systems Selection – For students at schools completing a dedicated HVAC or building environmental systems curriculum. The project encourages students with a solid HVAC base to use life-cycle cost process to select the building HVAC system(s) as well as incorporate the sustainability process promoted by ASHRAE by integrating ASHRAE Standard 189.1-2009 - Standard for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings, and the US Green Building Council's LEED™ Rating System (or equivalent in the home country of international students.)
Integrated Sustainable Building Design – For a multidisciplinary team to include students in engineering, architecture, technology, and other allied fields. Teams are asked to design their own building for the program described in the effort to approach a sustainable or “net zero” energy building. Students will be asked to document select LEED credits (or an equivalent energy rating system in their home country) to measure how their design meets the sustainability goals. The emphasis in ISBD is on whole-building design, integrating architectural, and construction, mechanical, electrical and other technical disciplines in an integrated approach throughout the design process.
Student Design Competition Judging Criteria
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