A student team from the Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague took third place overall in the Solar Decathlon 2013, an engineering competition which is organized biennially by the U.S. Department of Energy. The competition challenged 20 collegiate teams from around the world to design, build, and operate an energy-efficient solar-powered house.
On the site of the former US hospital in Heidelberg-Rohrbach, a dormitory is being constructed that will be both a residence and a meeting place for students, trainees, and young professionals from the Collegium Academicum.
Radoslav Dimitrov, a civil engineering student, took advantage of RSTAB when writing his paper, for which he analyzed a stadium roof. The object of the paper was to design a stadium for soccer matches and athletic sports events, offering space for an audience of 70,000 people. The framework of the roof is a tubular steel structure with 17,791 members in total.
The Fondation Avicenne, formerly known as the Maison de l'Iran, created in the 1960s, is a building of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris (CIUP) which now shelters many houses where students from all around the world are accommodated in an outstanding landscaped environment. The architect Claude Parent completely redesigned the sketches of Iranian architects Mosheine Foroughi and Heydar Ghiai, who originally designed this project, initiated by Mohammad Reza Chahd'Iran.
In 2013, a very special project was carried out in Pitigala, Sri Lanka. A bridge was designed, calculated, and built by 30 students. They are part of the university group "Engineers Without Borders Karlsruhe Institute of Technology e.V.", which realizes development projects in seven different countries.
Brock Commons is an 18‑story mass timber hybrid student residence currently under construction at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
When completed in summer 2017, it will be the tallest mass timber hybrid building in the world, at 174 feet high.