The 2018 Design & Construction Competition Winners

With one heck of a presentation and project, the ACE Mentor Program team from Central Iowa took home top honors this week, being crowned National Champions of the 12th Annual CIRT Design & Construction Competition. After being selected from a record-setting sixty (60) entries, three teams contended in a presentation round during the CIRT Spring Conference in Washington, D.C. on April 30, 2018.  A distinguished panel of judges headed by Michael Bellaman, President & CEO of Associated Builders & Contractors also included: Kevin Hilton, CEO of the Ironworkers Management Progressive Action Cooperative Trust (IMPACT); Patricia Rodgers, CEO of Rodgers Builders; Mark Cain, President of Smoot Corporation; and Dan Johnson, President & CEO of Mortenson announced the order of finish as follows:

 
It took the judges two ballots to ultimately determine a winner after carefully analyzing the team presenter's ability to make a coherent, well thought-out, clear presentation on the design/construction approaches within the project's objectives while being fully responsive to the competition package elements in the challenge/RFP. The judging was based on two major elements: quality of presentation and competence of the overall entry.  The winning entry exhibited an extraordinary versatility and responsiveness to the criteria of the challenge, while remaining within the limits of constructability and budget.