ASHRAE has announced the winners of its 2023 Student Design Competition and Setty Family Foundation Applied Engineering Challenge. The competitions recognize the exceptional talents and problem-solving skills of students in HVAC&R, building sciences and engineering.
This year’s Student Design Competition focused on the design of a new laboratory building, which consist of a large single-story building with a rooftop penthouse and located in Cairo, Egypt. Total building area is approximately 2,515 square metre. As part of the project, new HVAC systems were to be designed for the new laboratory facility. The building consists of a wet bench lab, dry bench lab, research support offices, common area for circulation, secured high density data center room, penthouse, common reception area, researcher offices, storage, resting pods room and social room.
Teams competed in one of the three categories: HVAC Design Calculations; HVAC System Selection; and Setty Family Foundation Net Zero Energy Design.
First place in the HVAC Design Calculations category was awarded to Jackson Fritch, John Latta, and Clayton Riley of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. The complete list is available at: https://www.ashrae.org/communities/student-zone/competitions/design-competition-winners.
