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 2025 rules for the student symposia. Requests for Information (RFI) and Clarifications, which include any revisions to the rules, are published on

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.

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.

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

2022年6月14日 · In this article, Angel Leon, Simpson Strong-Tie Training Specialist/Outreach Coordinator and cofounder of Timber-Strong, discusses the creation of this ASCE design build competition, what it teaches architecture and structural engineering students, and how the program will grow in the future.

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 2021 Timber-Strong Design BuildSM (TSDB) Competition enables students to gain experience in performing crucial aspects of common structural engineering design and practice. Participating students will learn about the processes involved in professionally designing and proposing a project bid, which