Design tools and digital applications are on the rise to support risk planning and scenario analysis during the pandemic and beyond. Bentley’s OpenBuildings Station Designer enables surveyors, planners, architects, and structural, mechanical, and electrical engineers,...
By the start of the next decade Google wants to make sure all the electricity it uses for its data centers and offices will be truly 100% carbon free. Under its previous pledge the tech giant has been offsetting its consumption with direct renewable electricity...
There are no official competition beginning or ending dates on the competition schedule. The SMART Competition has made the schedule completely flexible. The actual dates and specific deliverable dates are subject to the decisions made by each individual team. Each...
Anne Lorimor has the record of being the oldest person to climb Mount Kilimanjaro. Anne was 89 when she reached the peak on July 18th, 2019. She loves hiking and she didn’t start with Kilamanjaro. It started walking on streets and on hiking trails. She upward...
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) has published two statements to define guidance on managing the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease (Coronavirus) with respect to the operation and...
I know….you’re asking “What is post-tensioning and why is it important to SMART?” Post-tensioning is adding plastic sleeved steel cables to a concrete slab before the slab is poured to give the slab extra strength. When the slab is poured, the cables are pulled tight...
The U.K. is home to some of the world’s oldest — and most prestigious — universities. And while these may be centers of excellence for learning, many institutions’ buildings were built centuries ago and are in need of refurbishment or, in some instances, total...
A $26 million Chicago office building will be one of the first in the country to boast features designed to address COVID-19 safety concerns. The 90,000-square-foot Fulton East, which was under construction when the outbreak hit, has been engineered for maximum social...
The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) released a white paper in June calling on jurisdictions globally to explore mandatory building energy performance standards to meet long-term climate goals, energy savings and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission...
The software the student teams use in the competition is provided by Bentley Systems (https://www.bentley.com/en). It represents the best design tool suite available to architects and engineering professionals worldwide. OpenBuildings Designer enables the teams to be...
COVID-19 has created building and facility use challenges. Design requirements that solve the physical or social distancing requirements are going to dominate design thinking for years to come. The Bentley software used in the SMART Competition will enable student...
One of the first questions we’re typically asked by teams planning to register for the SMART Competition is “What is the competition schedule?”. The normal answer is that the competition begins in August/September and the final judging is in April/May. We include...