Team Gate Wins 2024 Project Precast Design Competition | PCI Mid-Atlantic
The Precast Show in Denver in February was the site of the 6th Annual Project Precast Design Competition. The goals of this competition? To introduce students to the many uses of precast/prestressed concrete and to showcase the availability of design assist by the precast industry. And to do the competition in multiple days during the PCI Convention.
The number of teams, students, precast industry coaches, sponsors, and attendance at the final reveal of the student designs in 2024 surpassed all prior years by more than 25%. SIKA and Hamilton Form Company repeated as overall sponsors.
Students from 17 universities were brought together to form 8 teams hosted by CEG, Clark Pacific, Coreslab, Finfrock, Gate, Metromont, Tindall and Wells. Each team had 48 hours to design a structure that was revealed to them on Wednesday at noon and culminated in a presentation before more than 225 attendees on Friday afternoon.
Each year a structure that is indicative of the host city is chosen. Professor Matt Shea from the University of Colorado Denver challenged the students to create a Museum of Mountain Sports. The students and coaches were then put on a bus and taken to a site Professor Shea chose in Boulder, as the hypothetical location that would suit such a project.
The winning team was Team Gate, a new team sponsor in 2024. Team Gate was led by head coach Russ Vines and included 4 students: Anna Durfee, Clemson University; Jared Fasshauer, Clemson University; Parker Welsh, Clemson University and Yoshun Zou, Lehigh University. Each student took home $1000.
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