Chicago office building constructed with Coronavirus-fighting features
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...ACEEE adopting building performance standards
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...Multidiscipline Building Design Software
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...Designing Buildings and Public Spaces for Social Distancing
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...What is the Competition Schedule?
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...
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