ASCE Sustainable Solutions Competition

About the competition

The ASCE Sustainable Solutions Competition (SSC) inspires students to solve realistic problems in the civil engineering realm by stimulating the development of knowledge in sustainable practices on a platform that encourages multi-disciplinary collaboration.

The SSC encourages students to be innovative and creative and use all resources available to deliver outstanding sustainable solutions that integrate engineering and natural systems working in harmony for the benefit of humanity.

2026 Topic

The CE Computing Corporation (CECC) is requesting proposals for professional civil engineering services and sustainability consulting services to construct a new data center within the City of ASCE. The CECC board of directors has approved enhanced sustainability goals for the proposed data center, including using the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure’s Envision as the primary sustainability framework.

Rules and RFIs

The format of this competition is intended to simulate a request for proposal (RFP) that responds to a real-world challenge.

The planning and sustainability goals for the competition are an integral part of these rules. The purpose of this rules document is to provide students with a proposal scenario, existing conditions, and goals that should be achieved in proposal submissions. The parameters are intentionally broad to encourage creativity and resourcefulness in the proposal development.

The competition provides a “Requests for Information (RFI)” period so that student teams can ask questions about the rules as needed. See the rules document for how and when to send RFIs as well as how to access the responses.

If you have any questions about the Sustainable Solutions competition, please contact us at [email protected].

View the 2026 rules (PDF) 

Intent & Eligibility Acknowledgement Form