ASCE Society-Wide Competitions Rules & Regulations
Please take a moment to read the competition rules carefully.
Each competition provides a “Requests for Information (RFI)” period so that student teams can ask questions about the rules. See the rules document for where and when to send RFIs as well as how to access the responses.
ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition
The ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition provides students a unique opportunity to gain hands-on practical experience while testing their skills with concrete mix designs and project management challenges.
- 2025 ASCE Concrete Canoe Competition Request for Proposals - Rules (PDF)
- Pre-Qualification Forms (PDF)
- Proposals, Presentations, and Paddling: Tips from the 2023 Society-wide Concrete Canoe Competition Judges (PDF)
- 2024 Concrete Canoe Competition Kickoff Webinar (Video)
- 2024 Concrete Canoe Mix Design Webinar (Video)
- Concrete Canoe Infographic Design and Development Webinar (Video)
- Concrete Canoe Proposal Writing Webinar (Video)
- Concrete Canoe Materials Notebook (Video)
- Presentations 101: The Art of Persuasion (Video)
- Concrete Canoe Project Proposals (Submission Portal)
ASCE Sustainable Solutions Competition
For 2025, The City of ASCE has formed a public-private partnership (PPP) to acquire a parcel with a 5-story commercial office building for mixed-use redevelopment. The City has adopted the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure’s Envision framework to achieve its sustainability goals and will use it as a key assessment tool for this project. See the rules document for how and when to send RFIs as well as how to access the responses.
- 2025 ASCE Sustainable Solutions Competition Rules - (PDF)
- View 2025 Rules Appendix A – Existing Site Drawing (PDF)
Intent & Eligibility Acknowledgement Form
ASCE UESI Surveying Competition
The educational and professional goals of this competition include a recognition of the importance of basic surveying principles to all civil engineering projects. Students will be required to use standard field and office equipment and procedures to solve real-world problems encountered in industry. See the rules document for how and when to send RFIs as well as how to access the responses.
Intent & Eligibility Acknowledgement Form
AISC/ASCE Student Steel Bridge Competition
The Student Steel Bridge Competition challenges students to an intercollegiate competition that supplements their education with a comprehensive, student-driven project experience from conception and design through fabrication, erection, and testing.
Intent & Eligibility Acknowledgement Form
ASCE Construction Institute Student Symposium Competition – Pilot
The Construction Institute Student Symposium Competition tasks participating students with several real-world construction engineering challenges to which teams will be asked to devise a solution and communicate it via presentation to a panel of judges. The entirety of this competition will take place at the symposia.
Intent & Eligibility Acknowledgement Form
Timber-Strong Design Build Competition – Pilot
The competition seeks student teams to design and build an artistically creative 2-story wood light-framed building that is sustainable, aesthetically pleasing and structurally durable. See the rules document for how and when to send RFIs as well as how to access the responses.
Intent & Eligibility Acknowledgement Form
ASCE 3D Printing Competition – Pilot
The ASCE 3D Printing Competition: Bridging the Future promotes the application of 3D printing technology in the field of civil engineering. Students are challenged to design an aesthetically-pleasing, strong, and stiff 3D printed bridge that will take the least amount of assembly time and meets the geometric requirements. See the rules document for how and when to send RFIs as well as how to access the responses.