Past Competitions

Cornell Seismic Design attends the EERI Seismic Design Competition with about 40 other undergraduate, international teams. These are the past rankings in each category of the competition, and our final rankings.

2023 - San Francisco, CA

  • Igor Popov Award for Structural Innovation
  • 6th in Architecture
  • 7th in Communication
  • Third place overall

2022 - Salt Lake City, UT

  • 3rd in Architecture
  • 5th in Communication
  • 5th in Final Annual Seismic Cost
  • Second place overall

2021 - Virtual

  • 9th in Communication
  • 11th in Architecture
  • seventh place overall

2020 - San Diego, CA

  • No Score

2019 - Vancouver, Canada

  • 4th in Communication
  • 9th in Architecture
  • 9th in Final Annual Seismic Cost

2018 - Los Angeles, CA

  • 7th in Communication
  • 7th in Analysis Predicted Score
  • Seventh place overall

2017 - Portland, OR

  • 1st in Communication
  • 8th in Architecture
  • 12th in Final Annual Seismic Cost
  • First Place Overall

2016 - San Francisco, CA

  • 4th in Architecture
  • 3rd in Final Annual Seismic Cost
  • 6th in Analysis Predicted Score
  • Third place overall

2016

Garret Tower

  • Third Place Overall

2017

Pettygrove Tower

  • First Place Overall

2018

Lautner Tower

  • Seventh Place Overall

2019

Yggdrasil Tower

2020

Olita Tower

2021

Fauci Tower

  • Seventh Place Overall

2022

Altair Tower

  • Second Place Overall

2023

Stratus

  • Third Place Overall