Construction Foundation Team Judges Kirkwood High Student Design Competition

Date Posted: April 26, 2016

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Judges provided through the Construction Forum Education Foundation (CFEF) judged a capstone class architectural/engineering presentation at Kirkwood High School (KHS) on Wednesday April 20.

The judging was part of Kirkwood High School’s first “Engineering Night” that evening. Students displayed projects they had worked on in classes like Aerospace Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Environmental Sustainability, and Digital Electronics.

The CFEF architects and engineers and KHS parents did a gallery walk to view all of the projects.

The night concluded with juried presentations from the Civil Engineering/Architecture and Engineering Capstone class.

Judging the presentations were CFEF civil engineering and architecture judges:

Mark Stegeman, director, Arcturis Architecture
Cody Henderson, project manager, FSA Architects
Jake Banton, associate, Mackey Mitchell Architects
John Falk, site development manager, Civil Design, Inc.
Adonis Smith, civil engineer, Civil Design, Inc.

Four student teams presented their design solution for a Kirkwood commerical project.

The judging criteria rubric included:

The presentation content completely and concisely summarizes the project.
All of the following is clearly presented:
- Site discovery
- Site location map
  - Site visit
  - Documentation
All of the following code information is clearly presented:
- Applicable codes
- Zoning
- Occupancy classification
- Type of construction
- Maximum building size
- Occupancy load
- Min. egress requirements
- Parking requirements
- Landscaping requirements
The proposed design how been presented in a professional manner that clearly shows how the design is legally allowable and physically possible.