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Book reviews / News / Announcements Fig. 1. Structural Bridge Design Competition News Student Steelwork Design Competition 2010 Fig. 2. Structural Steelwork Design This year saw 12 British Universities Competition entering the Bridge Design competition, and 10 British Universities entering into submitted by Gytis Juodzevicius, Aidas – London South Bank University: the Structural Steelwork competition. As Juodzevicius, Jonathan Han, Chee Gang Robert Fowler, Allan Wiseman, usual, entries were of a high standard with Chua from the University of Liverpool Sebastian Almeida and Robert Gray some excellent submissions in both tech- won the 3rd place. – University of Wales, Swansea: Sam nical content and presentation. Burns, James Lamb, Tom Leake and Structural Steelwork Michael Treanor Structural Bridge Design Competition Design Competition – University of Sheffield: Richard The brief for the Bridge competition The brief for the Structural Steelwork Parker, Caroline Wilks, Christopher was to design a bridge to carry a single Design Competition was to design a new O’Meara and Ana Borba Rodrigues carriage way bypass over a valley. A range low carbon school. The brief established of structural solutions were available, the areas required, and left much of the All winners will be presented with their complicated by a river and railway in the rest to the imagination of the students. winning Certificates at the Steel Construc- valley. The judges were looking of an ele- The low carbon aspect of the brief see- tion Institute SCI Members Day on Tues- gant solution to suit the location. Proper med to have caught the imagination of day September 28, 2010. Further infor- consideration of alternative schemes, and the students and a number of excellent mation is available at www.steel-sci.org. development of the preferred solution submissions were received, demonstrating was important, together with a thorough considerable research in the subject. The consideration of the construction se- judges were impressed by a number of quence. The judges were looking for designs prepared in accordance with the drawings which clearly conveyed the Eurocodes. scheme and the key details. The 1st place winner of this competi- Martins Pilegis and Danas Sujula tion was Jonathan Evans. “A well con- from the University of Cardiff (Wales) ceived, integrated and presented design. were the first place winners. ”A nice and The design demonstrated that there was simple design with clean elegant lines, an appreciation that the details added and clearly and concisely presented. The considerable interest to the scheme. The drawings show professional-looking de- scheme was supported by outstanding tails used in real bridges. The submission calculations and the judges were im- showed consideration of how the struc- pressed by the majestic central atrium ture was to be built and the design method design”, commented the judges. The 2nd showed a detailed level“, commented place winners were John Cook, Eleanor the judges the decision. The 2nd place Delziel, Nicola Reeves and Ben Hall winners were Alastair Sutherland, from the University of Bristol. Hamish Cullens, Callum Kerr, Romain Knowles and George Brown from the Three submissions were commended by University of Edinburgh. The scheme the judges: Steel Construction 3 (2010), No. 3 191 source: www.steel-sci.org source: www.steel-sci.org
Steel Construction: Design and Research – Wiley
Published: Sep 1, 2010
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