UA Design-Build Team Selected as Regional Finalists
Wednesday, November 23, 2016
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2016 DB Wildcats team
In an impressive first showing, the new University of Arizona design-build team were among nine regional finalists in the 2016 National Design-Build Student Competition held by the Design-Build Institute of America.
The DB Wildcats team – composed of civil engineering undergraduates Luis Flores, Robert Melvin and Nicholas Tritz and architecture students Tasanee Durrett and Kevin Yingst – contended against 30 other teams to demonstrate design-build best practices by planning the construction of a college campus parking facility.
The club is affiliated with CEEM's Construction Engineering Management emphasis (PDF).