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ASCE/AISC Bridge Competition

The design of bridges is perhaps the most exciting challenge for a structural engineer. This competition fosters the challenge of designing and testing a steel bridge. See Competitions for an overview and participation by Canadian teams below by year.

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2012 Student Steel Bridge Competition

Please see the following links for the official 2012 SSBC rules and information which apply to both regional and national events. The rules are posted on the official AISC/ASCE NSSBC website.
2012 SSBC Competition Rules (link to AISC website) 
AISC/ASCE official NSSBC website

A 2012 SSBC Competition Guide has been developed by the National Rules Committee to supplement the official rules and provide an aid to participants of the SSBC.  It is also the site from which you may download the official scoring spreadsheet. Please click on the following link access the SSBC Competition Guide.
SSBC Competition Guide

Information about elegibility, stipends and sponsorship for teams participating at the regional and national levels is provided on our main Competitions page.

2012 Regional Competition:

The 2012 ASCE Student Conference locations, host institutions, conference dates and contacts are provided on the ASCE website. 
ASCE Website

For Canadian Teams participating at the Regional Competition level, please contact the SSEF at  info@ssef-ffca.ca and provide information about your team, bridge design and details of the ASCE Student Conference in which you will participate and the SSEF will supply contact information for local CISC Members for sponsorship and fabrication assistance.

2012 National Competition:

The National Competition was held at Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina on May 25-26.
Clemson University - Host School Website

Qualified Canadian Student Steel Bridge teams will receive a $1250 sponsorship from the SSEF.

2012 Competition Results:

Congratulations to the SSBC team from University of California, Berkeley who placed first overall out of a total of 47 teams.  Second and third place overall were earned by teams from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, respectively.

Three Canadian teams including Lakehead University, Université Laval and École de technologie supérieure (ETS) showed good effort at the nationals. Competition results for participating Canadian teams are provided below.

Detailed results of the NSSBC be found at www.nssbc.info.  Photographs of the NSSBC event can be viewed through Clemson University's Photostream on Flickr. A 2012 competition-recap video has also been created by Clemson University.

Canadian Participants

École Polytechnique de Montréal : 2nd Place (Guest), Regionals (Metropolitan Conference)
EPM Steel Bridge

École de Technologie Supérieure : 19th Place Overall, Nationals
Team ÉTS

Lakehead University : 11th Place Overall, Nationals
Team Lakehead

University of British Columbia : Disqualified, Regionals (Pacific Northwest Conference)
Team UBC

Université Laval : 37th Place Overall, Nationals
Team Université Laval

 

2008 NSSBC

The 2014 NSSBC will be held at University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, from May 23-24. 

University of Akron - Host School Website

 


 

The 2013 NSSBC was held at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington from May 31 - June 1.

University of Washington NSSBC You Tube Video

University of Washington - Host School Website

Read the recent (Feb 2013) Modern Steel Construction, Steel in the News article about the 2013 SSBC season kick-off, written by Tasha Weiss.

Read the Seattle Times newspaper article about the 2013 NSSBC.