{"id":6627,"date":"2021-04-07T12:37:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T20:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/?p=6627"},"modified":"2021-04-07T12:37:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-07T20:37:19","slug":"wsu-student-team-wins-1st-place-at-construction-management-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wsu-student-team-wins-1st-place-at-construction-management-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"WSU Student Team Wins 1st Place at Construction Management Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WSU-Construction-1024x634.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WSU-Construction-1024x634.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WSU-Construction-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WSU-Construction-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WSU-Construction-97x60.jpg 97w, https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/WSU-Construction.jpg 1123w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A student team from PacTrans consortium partner Washington\nState University took first place in the recent Associated Schools of\nConstruction competition, the largest construction management competition in\nthe U.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Despite this year\u2019s shift to a virtual format, almost 1,100\nstudents from 47 universities and 19 states participated. The competition is\ncomprised of ten-hour days where participants are required solve two rounds of\nproblems that have been generated by problem sponsors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The WSU team, coached by associate professor of design and\nconstruction, Jason Peschel, competed in the commercial category with twelve\nother teams and ultimately won first place. The student team included Meghan\nSmith, Hunter Hohman, Kali Saueressig, Cory Condon, Austin Cornell, and Georgia\nRobinson with alternates Grace Lium and RJ Clemons. The students used\nconstruction management skills such as scheduling, estimating, site logistics,\nsite safety, and technical writing to develop a proposal for a real-life\nconstruction problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the third time in the last decade the WSU\ncommercial team has won first place at the competition,\u201d said Peschel. \u201cThere\nis such strong competition that having a team place is a wonderful statement\nabout the strength of the program, the coaches, and the students.&nbsp; To see a team overcome all of the challenges\nassociated with performing collaboratively in a virtual environment is amazing.\nWe are so proud of this team\u2019s ability to adapt to the pandemic-related\nconstraints!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely thankful for the fantastic industry\nsupport that we have here at WSU,\u201d Peschel said. \u201cThe practice problem sponsors\ncompletely reimagined the problems in an effort to emulate the two-day\nformat.&nbsp; Our students are fortunate to\nget such amazing preparation for the competition. They are gaining invaluable\nskills and experiences that will bring them success in their careers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student team from PacTrans consortium partner Washington State University took first place in the recent Associated Schools of Construction competition, the largest construction management competition in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-and-workforce-development","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6629,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6627\/revisions\/6629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pactrans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}