The Timber-Strong Design Build Competition 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.

This document, which is available at Student Conferences, Symposia & Competitions page of the ASCE Website, describes the Timber-Strong Design BuildSM Competition and states the 2024 rules for the student symposia.

This document, which is available at Student Conferences, Symposia & Competitions page of the ASCE Website, describes the Timber-Strong Design BuildSM Competition and states the 2025 rules for the student symposia. Requests for Information (RFI) and Clarifications, which include any revisions to the rules, are published on

ASCE has partnered with the American Wood Council (AWC), APA - Engineered Wood Association (APA), and Simpson Strong-Tie (SST) to pilot the Timber-Strong Design Build℠ (TSDB℠) Competition. The competition seeks student teams to design and build an artistically creative 2-story wood light-framed building that is sustainable, aesthetically ...

Timber Strong focuses on working with sustainable materials and infrastructure, crucial to consider in the modern world. The competition involves designing, prefabricating, and constructing a wooden structure given certain design and load parameters.

Timber-Strong is a relatively new ASCE student competition where a team is tasked with creating a sustainable, 2-story light-framed wooden building. There are a variety of building constraints and projects are scored based on sustainability, BIM, aesthetics, construction, and presentation.

ASCE Timber-Strong Design Build Competition . What Students are Saying. This is the only competition that brings it all together—design, drawings, BIM, and construction! TSDB matches our school motto, “Learn by doing.” BIM helped us catch load path mistakes before the build.

The ASCE 2024 – 2025 Timber Strong Student Competition allows civil engineering students the opportunity to get hands on experience with real world timber structural design and construction. The focus of the project is to design and construct a sustainable, aesthetically pleasing, and structurally sound two-story, light-framed wood structure.

The Timber Strong Design-Build Competition is where students come together to design and build a creative two-story wood framed building that is sustainable, aesthetically pleasing and structurally durable. The competition enables students …

Scoring points is divided between strength and durability analysis, sustainability, construction, presentation and display board, and creativity/aesthetics. The UCLA Timber Design Build team posing in their 2nd-place-winning house at NCSEA's 2019 competition!