DATES

May 19-20, 2024

ELIGIBILITY

We encourage teams that integrate students, building analysts, designers, architects, engineers, programmers, and other participants. Registrants may form teams in advance or at the event.  Teams may include up to 6 people.

PROJECT AND SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

Teams will have 24 hours to address a building performance simulation challenge of their choosing.

Prizes:

Best Overall Hack

$1,000 awarded to the most innovative and well-executed project with the biggest “wow” factor.

Judging Criteria and Winner Selection:

Creativity and Innovation (25%)

How innovative and groundbreaking is the idea?  Is it something that we could see changing the BEM industry?

Execution (25%)

How well implemented is the hack? How difficult was the technical problem that the team solved? Did you find a new use for, or leverage, an existing piece of technology? Did the team produce a working demonstration?

Teamwork & Collaboration (20%)

How diverse is the team across professional disciplines, skill sets, and organizations?

Open-source (20%)

Is the project on GitHub/Bitbucket? Is it open-source? Is it well-documented with examples?  Did you build upon other open-source software?

Learning (10%)

Did team members challenge themselves to learn something new? Which technologies/APIs/products/methods did you use that you didn't know before?