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In PacTrans most recent Spring edition newsletter, found here, our cover article highlighted many of the great accomplishments made by our consortium universities’ student competition teams. Well, we have another one to report. Oregon State University’s Big Beam team earned third place among competitors throughout North America at the Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute (PCI) Big Beam Contest.

The contest objective is for student teams to fabricate and test a precast/prestressed concrete beam with the help of local PCI members. The beam must be made primarily of concrete without any trusses, arches, or other non-flexural members. Prizes are awarded to the top 20 performers in consideration of efficient design, highest load capacity, and other categories.

Congratulations to the students on an outstanding performance and thank you to PCI producer Knife River for your continued support of student learning at Oregon State.