Contests by AECOM - Contest Watchers

Urban SOS: hOUR City – Global Student Competition

Contest Watchers Editorial Team — Mon, 08 May 2017 10:00:29 +0000

Presented by AECOM and Van Alen Institute, with 100 Resilient Cities — pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation, hOUR City is this year’s Urban SOS™ student ideas competition. The organizers are asking students to propose new solutions to tackle housing, transportation, or economic development challenges and to re-imagine what a future “hour city” boundary can be. A total of $15,000 in prize money will be distributed among the finalist teams, and the winning team will receive up to $25,000 of in-kind support from AECOM to implement a pilot of their proposal.

Urban SOS 2016: Fair Share – Global Student Competition

Contest Watchers Editorial Team — Thu, 19 May 2016 12:00:36 +0000

Van Alen Institute and AECOM have just launched Fair Share, the 2016 Urban SOS global student competition. The organizers are inviting multidisciplinary teams from around the world to apply the tools and principles of the “sharing economy” to tackle pressing urban challenges. Expert juries of global thought leaders in five cities around the world will select competition finalists. The winning team will receive US $7,500 and up to US $25,000 of in-kind support from AECOM to bring their project to life.

Urban SOS 2015: AECOM’s Global Student Competition

Contest Watchers Editorial Team — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:00:55 +0000

Urban SOS: All Systems Go – the 2015 AECOM’s global competition, calls on multidisciplinary teams of students to envision more resilient food, water, and energy systems for supplying cities and regions today and in the future. All Systems Go is the 6th student competition in AECOM’s Urban SOS program, created to engage students in urban planning and design, architecture, landscape architecture, economics, environmental studies, and engineering with the issues confronting modern cities and allowing them to propose solutions that, if worthy, will be seen by established professionals. Three short-listed teams will be invited to present their proposals before an interdisciplinary panel at the A+D Museum in Los Angeles in October 2015. Urban SOS: All Systems Go jurors will award US$15,000 in prizes, which may be divided among one or more teams. In addition, AECOM will make available up to US$25,000 of cash and in-kind staff time to support the implementation of a prototype of the winning team’s strategies.