St. Louis-based McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. recently sponsored the Associated Schools of Construction 2014 Student Competition for the Great Lakes Region in the category of Design-Build.
In this annual competition, teams of students from up to 12 regional universities are presented with a construction project/problem and must prepare a presentation to “win the job” and present it just 24 hours later. McCarthy’s construction professionals developed the challenge based on an actual project and judged the student entries.
The project for this year’s competition was a Midwestern urban mixed-use development. Teams were judged on various criteria including prequalification submission, concept design from a Request for Proposal, cost estimate, scheduling, written proposal and oral presentation.
The Design-Build winners for Region 3 were:
1st place: Milwaukee School of Engineering
2nd place: Indiana State University
3rd place: Ball State University
McCarthy has been sponsoring the Design-Build competition for nearly a decade.
