by Michael Andrews | Aug 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Michael Andrews | Aug 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Michael Andrews | Jun 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Michael Andrews | Jun 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
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...
by Michael Andrews | May 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Buildings generate nearly 40% of the world’s CO2 emissions—and since two-thirds of the buildings that exist today will still be around by the middle of the century, architects need to rethink their design now to have a chance of meeting goals for a net-zero economy. ...