2025 Competition Finalists Announced!
- Mar 22
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 24
We are pleased to announce the top three finalists for the 2025 CIRT National Design + Construction Competition. This year we received an unprecedented 74 submissions representing 21 different states and 24 different ACE Affiliate programs.
The top three “Worthy Finalists”* teams will travel to Washington D.C. to present their work to a panel of judges and vie for a top prize of $5000. The presentations will be live streamed on April 28 at 3:00pm EST for all participants to watch and learn from (link tbd). This year's Finalists and Runners-Up are:
MULTI-MODAL TRANSPORTATION HUB (38 entries)
Worthy National Finalist
ACE Mentor Program of Washington, Seattle Tuesday Team 2 for their multi-modal transportation hub entry "The Tacoma Transit Tapestry"
1st Runner-Up
ACE Mentor Program of Connecticut, Team 1 for their entry "The New Port Authority"
2nd Runner-Up
ACE Mentor Program of Greater NY, ACE Team 8 - DDC/SCA for their entry "The Key"
IDEAL SCHOOL (26 entries)
Worthy National Finalist
ACE Paso del Norte, Windflower Architects for their ideal school entry "Ruby Bridges High School"
1st Runner-Up
ACE Mentor Program Houston, Maple Lead for their entry "Bow River High School"
2nd Runner-Up
ACE Mentor Program of Illinois, ACE Chicago Team 4 for their entry "Rebirth of the Phoenix"
CARBON CAPTURE (10 entries)
Worthy National Finalist
ACE Northeast Florida, Creekside High School National Team 2 for their carbon capture entry "The Bullard Project"
1st Runner-Up
ACE Mentor Program of Tampa, Team TBT for their entry "MC3: Maritime Carbon Capture Container"
2nd Runner-Up
ACE Mentor Inland Empire, Biochar Bulldogs for their entry "Tera Capture"
Congratulations to all participants and finalists! We continue to be impressed by your thoughtful responses to these challenges. Thank you and we look forward to the Final Presentations.
*The Worthy National Finalists are named in honor of the late Ed Worthy, a great leader in the construction/design industry and longtime supporter and advocate of the ACE Mentor Program.