University of Arizona’s DBIA National Design-Build Student Competition Win Highlights Growing Role of Women in AEC

The DBIA National Design-Build Student Competition provides a rigorous introduction to the complexities of real-world project delivery. In 2024, 30 teams from 22 colleges and universities across the nation entered the competition, each tasked with solving a real-world-inspired challenge using design-build. After submitting initial responses to a Request for Qualifications (RFQ), only eight regional winners advanced to the second phase in which they responded to a Request for Proposals (RFP). The final three teams — Cardinal Design-Build from the University of Arizona, Rocky Mountain Design-Build from the University of Colorado Boulder and Altitude Design Development from the NewSchool of Architecture and Design — presented their proposals live to a panel of national industry judges at DBIA’s Design-Build Conference & Expo in Dallas, Texas, earlier this month.

NewSchool of Architecture and Design student design-build team Altitude Design and Development members pose with their third place award in the 2024 National Design-Build Student Competition. Pictured from left, DBIA National Board Chair Dana Pomeroy, faculty advisor Stephen Matley, team captain Henry Vergil, Ana Trujillo, Boston McCullough, Jade Giron and DBIA ED/CEO Lisa Washington. Not pictured, team member James Armendariz. Photo by Robb McCormick Photography (www.robbmccormick.com)

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