Guest Post by Equiterre

Equiterre and ETS (Ecole de technologie supérieure) are proud to present the fourth edition of Ecologez, a competition of integrated design for a green building. With a design ‘charrette’, the competition offers the opportunity to students coming from the fields of architecture, engineering, design, environment, and urbanism to put their knowledge in practice for designing an ecological building. This designing will be carried out in an integrated fashion, an approach that is gaining ground in the professional world as the preferred approach to achieve environmental and social objectives in buildings.

The competition will be held on March 6 and 7, 2010, at ETS (an engineering school named Ecole de technologie superieure) located in downtown Montreal. Students registered in a Bachelor or Graduate University Program related to building design and its impact are welcome to participate. The design problem will be presented at the beginning of the competition, on the morning of March 6. The multidisciplinary design teams will also be defined at that moment. We invite you to register as soon as possible. Twelve teams will be formed with the first 72 registered participants. The deadline for registration is March 5. In addition to offering a rich experience to the participants, this competition will also offer 5000$ in prizes to the teams that will rank in first and second.

By concern of having a balance between the disciplines represented within the teams, the organizers reserve the right to refuse inscriptions if a number necessary of participants of the same discipline were already registered.

Register here

To know more about the competition, take a look at the previous year’s competitions

Read comments and quotes from past participants

To learn more about the fundamental notions of integrated design

With this new competition where collaboration and the environment matter, Equiterre and ETS wish that students will be able to learn and experience the fundamental notions of integrated design, an approach that is becoming essential in a professional practice that must respond to the current requirements of sustainable development.

Co-organizers