ASHRAE Student Design Competition The 2027 Student Design Competition focuses on a university in Taipei, Taiwan that is looking to retrofit a hotel into a live and learn community.
Win up to $5000 and a chance to attend the 2028 ASHRAE Winter Meeting in Orlando, Florida, United States of America. Participate with your student branches teams, for capstones projects, or across disciplines and even with other institutions! ASHRAE recommends teams of two to six members. Your school does not need an ASHRAE Student Branch to participate. Students must be enrolled during the semester/term that they contribute to the design. Graduate students can submit projects in the Net Zero Energy Design category only. For the other categories, entries should come from an undergraduate engineering or architecture curriculum. Three Main Categories 1. HVAC Design Calculations For students who have attended 1-2 HVAC courses. Focuses on the design calculations required to provide an energy-efficient design for the facility. Students are required to determine heating and cooling loads, and design the selected HVAC systems for the building, while demonstrating compliance with ASHRAE Standards 55, 62.1, and 90.1.
2. HVAC System Selection For students at schools completing a dedicated HVAC or building environmental systems curriculum. The project encourages students with a solid HVAC base to use life-cycle cost process to select the building HVAC system(s) and incorporate the sustainability process promoted by ASHRAE by integrating ASHRAE Standard 189.1 and the US Green Building Council’s LEED™ Rating System (or equivalent in the student’s home country).
3. 3. Setty Family Foundation Net Zero Energy Design (formerly Integrated Sustainable Building Design, ISBD) This student competition requires multidisciplinary teams to design an energy efficient sustainable project approaching a “Zero Energy” building with minimized energy demands for HVAC and all other technical systems that could be satisfied with locally available or building-installed renewable energy sources (RES). Students will be asked to satisfy a national or local sustainability standard (LEED or the equivalent in their country), and then implement RES to approach “Zero Energy” limit. The fundamental goal of this design competition category is to encourage students to obtain experience in the Net Zero Energy Design process. Architects and engineers should work together from the very beginning to determine building orientation, layout, materials, mechanical systems, and electrical systems that meet the client’s needs and work with the surrounding environment to minimize energy consumption. DEADLINE: Entries must be submitted electronically to ASHRAE Society FTP site by 11:59pm EDT on May 4, 2027. Late submissions will not be accepted. Must register prior to submission; only registered teams receive the FTP upload instructions (sent in April 2027), so register at least 30 days before the deadline. REGISTER HERE: https://web.ashrae.org/design_competition/ Learn more on the ASHRAE Student Design Competitions here: ASHRAE> Communities> Student Zone> Competitions |
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