Winners of 14th PROSteel Steel Struc-ture Design Student Competition or-ganized by Turkish Construction Steel Association with the partnership and sponsorship of Borusan Mannesmann have been announced. Yıldız Technical University team among a total of 31 groups won the competition of this year.
PROSteel 2014 supports students to gain experience in steel structure design and applications by developing creative solu-tions with steel material and further aims to promote cooperation between students of Architecutre and Civil Engineering De-partments.
In the competition where architecture and engineering students from all around Turkey participated, the team composed of Yıldız Technical University Architecture Department and Bosphorus University Civil Engineering Department students took the first place. Students participated the competition with the theme of “Disaster Homes Steel System Design” project.
Amount of total prize in this year’s com-petition has been increased by 50%. Win-ner team won 8.000 TL and runner-up won 5.000 TL monetary prize. In addition to these awards, the team which used Borusan Mannesmann products at a high percentage in their design was awarded with Borusan Mannesman Special Prize worth of 7.500 TL.
The jury lead by Prof. Dr. Mimar Hasan Şener (M.SC. ARCH) composed of Prof. Dr. Ayhan Usta (M.ARCH), Prof. Dr. Cel-al Abdi Güzer (M.ARCH), Prof. Dr. Nesrin Yardımcı (M.SC. CE), Dr. Selçuk İz (M.SC. CE) and Yaşar Marulyalı (M.SC. ARCH).
Prizes were presented in the ceremony held after the colloquium in Yapı-Endüstri Merkezi on 23 May 2014 Friday at 17:00. An exhibition was also held for the presentation of all of the projects in the competition.