RWU students declared Northeast Regional Championship winners in 2015 design-build student competition

THE WINNING team, from left to right: Brittany Reed, Philip Romagnoli, Joshua Snarski, Brianna Moretti and Anthony Racicot. They were declared Northeast Regional Championship winners in the recent 2015 National Design-Build Student Competition. / COURTESY ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY
THE WINNING team, from left to right: Brittany Reed, Philip Romagnoli, Joshua Snarski, Brianna Moretti and Anthony Racicot. They were declared Northeast Regional Championship winners in the recent 2015 National Design-Build Student Competition. / COURTESY ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY

BRISTOL – Roger Williams University students were Northeast Regional Championship winners in the recent 2015 National Design-Build Student Competition.
This is the second consecutive year that RWU has earned the Northeast Regional Championship title.
Roger Williams’ team competed with 31 other student teams from 26 universities to create a proposal to design and construct an $18 million, 46,000-square-foot science building on a liberal arts college campus.
Anthony Racicot, Phillip Romagnoli and Joshua Snarski, all construction management students, and Brianna Moretti and Brittany Reed, architecture students, worked for 10 days and nearly 100 hours to create the proposal that includes design renderings, pre-construction and construction plans, schedules, cost estimates and safety and quality control plans, among other components.
All except Racicot are members of the Class of 2016; he is a member of the class of 2017.
The students also consulted with RWU faculty members, local companies and industry professionals on the proposal.
The National Design-Build Student Competition is organized by the Design-Build Institute of America. It familiarizes students with the rigors of a design-build selection process.
The group’s faculty adviser, Gokhan Celik, associate professor of construction management in the School of Engineering, Computing and Construction Management, said the project will prove valuable for the students’ professional careers.
“The Design-Build Student Competition is a well-run competition and a true simulation of what a design-build project is like in the industry,” Celik said. “In addition to applying the technical content they learn in class, the students take away valuable skills in areas such as leadership, working as a team, prioritizing, planning and meeting deadlines.”
Snarski, the team captain for the group, said the experience was valuable in expanding his leadership skills.
“Working on this project for the Design-Build competition helped us expand on what we’ve learned from class and actually apply it to something in the real world,” Snarski said. “It’s allowed me to speak with different industry professionals and really demonstrate what I know and what I’ve learned in class. It’s also been a great leadership opportunity, and I enjoyed leading both architecture and construction management students to make sure we were all communicating and working as a team.”
As regional winners, the RWU team vied for the national title against eight other student groups; early this week, they were notified that they did not place among the top three teams. Student teams from the University of New Mexico, University of Washington and University of Colorado Boulder will advance to the final round of the competition in Colorado.
The team’s next venture is the Associated Schools of Construction Regional Student Competition, which will hold its ASC Region 1 Competition Nov. 13 and 14 in Morristown, N.J.

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