2021 Competition

The 2021 submissions were narrowed down to the 'Elite Eight' for evaluation by our excellent team of judges. The voting took place in two stages, with the first stage having the judges asynchronously score the eight entries against the submission criteria during the Quarter-final (You can see their Quarter-Final scorecards here). This produced a very tight final four to head into the live Semi-final and Final.

Ahead of the live Semi-final and Final event, two special judges joined the panel after performing some deep analysis of the final four. Enrico Bonilauri of Emu Systems completed performance modelling for moisture management and a thermal bridge analysis of the entries. Chris Magwood of the Endeavour Centre then calculated the entries' embodied carbon against baseline assemblies for each respective climate zone (You can see the analysis in the Semi-Final here).

The live Semi-final and Final event was hosted by Fine Homebuildng, with the final four student teams in attendance. After a very tight contest, and some input from the audience via live poling, the judges awarded Dylan Ingui and Giancarlo Martinell the winners of the Wall Assembly -Sweet 16 Competition for 2021. This high-school team from New York put together an excellent multi-family retrofit wall assembly the narrowly took the win.

We thank all 2021 participating students for their effort, ideas and enthusiasm when it comes to applied building science. Please learn about the entries and winner from 2021 below.

See the 2021 Submissions and Voting Here!