{"id":28979,"date":"2019-11-11T11:14:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=28979"},"modified":"2019-11-11T11:24:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:24:06","slug":"utc-construction-teams-reach-top-5-in-regional-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2019\/11\/utc-construction-teams-reach-top-5-in-regional-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"UTC Construction teams reach Top 5 in regional contest"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Members of the UTC Construction teams.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Design-Build<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andrew Cassman<\/p>\n

Brent Campbell<\/p>\n

John Pate<\/p>\n

Stedman Howard<\/p>\n

Kevin O’Conner<\/p>\n

Tanner Eaton<\/p>\n

Commercial<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lane Harwell<\/p>\n

Hunter Page<\/p>\n

Jacob Asbury<\/p>\n

Garrett Greene<\/p>\n

Patrick Lynch<\/p>\n

Timothy Youngs<\/p>\n

Emerson Brock<\/p>\n

Risk and Finance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hunter Ladd<\/p>\n

Maral Rahmani<\/p>\n

Jocody Floyd<\/p>\n

Logan Griswold<\/p>\n

Heavy Civil<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zach Berger<\/p>\n

Kyle Nadler<\/p>\n

Conner Stiles<\/p>\n

Stonewall Stinnett<\/p>\n

William Walker<\/p>\n

Shadow<\/b><\/p>\n

Patrick Ethan Young<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In a recent regional construction competition, the UTC finished in the Top Five out of 13 universities who competed.<\/p>\n

In the Associated Schools of Construction\u2019s Region 2 competition held last month in Peachtree City, Ga., the UTC Construction team finished fourth. First place went to Virginia Tech, Auburn University came in second and the University of Florida finished third. About 300 students participated in the contest.<\/p>\n

The UTC team consisted of 24 construction management majors and one graduate student in the Gary W. Rollins College of Business. The team was divided into four categories: Design-Build, Commercial, Heavy Civil and Risk and Finance.\u00a0One UTC student also joined forces with five students from other universities to create a Shadow team that was given a construction project. The purpose is to add the pressure of team dynamics when strangers come together as a team to solve a construction problem.<\/p>\n

Judges in the Design-Build category said the UTC team had the best design of a hotel in the competition, while Risk and Finance had the best overall presentation in its category, according to Paul Baggett, associate lecturer in the Department of Engineering Management and Technology and faculty representative for the competition.<\/p>\n

Judges also said the difference between first and fourth was one-hundredth of a point on Design-Build and a few tenths of a point in Risk and Finance, Baggett said.<\/p>\n

Members of three of the major construction companies who were judges said they always look for the “Mocs Power C” on their team shirts because they always interview well and have great resumes, Baggett added.<\/p>\n

The specific projects were:<\/p>\n