Related Developers and Contractors has introduced the winners of its annual Development Control Festival, which have been commemorated at ABC Conference 2025 in Las Vegas on Feb. 27. Clemson College, affiliated with the ABC Carolinas bankruptcy, was once named the total winner of the 2025 festival with the easiest cumulative issues within the 5 festival classes. A complete of 34 groups of undergraduate scholars from schools and universities national competed this 12 months.
Clemson positioned within the most sensible 3 in two classes, protection and total fulfillment. The College of Central Florida, ABC Central Florida’s scholar bankruptcy, earned 2nd position total and positioned in estimating, mission control and high quality regulate. Pennsylvania School of Generation, ABC Keystone’s scholar bankruptcy, earned 3rd position total and positioned within the estimating, mission control and protection classes and was once named the 2024 Pupil Bankruptcy of the Yr.
“Our trade desperately wishes professional, skilled younger building execs who can upward thrust to the problem and remedy issues in order that contractors can construct with excellence,” stated 2025 Chair of the ABC Nationwide Board of Administrators David Pugh, spouse, Bradley, Birmingham, Alabama. “This festival provides long term trade leaders that form of precious, resume-building revel in whilst concurrently serving to them succeed in their building profession goals. I’m excited to peer how those brilliant leaders give a contribution meaningfully to the trade all the way through their careers.”
The four-person groups put their building mission management talents to the check by means of finishing the similar real-life building control mission. This 12 months’s multiphase mission centered at the MiraCosta Well being and Wellness Hub, which encompasses 27 acres on the japanese finish of MiraCosta School’s Oceanside Campus in Oceanside, California. The improvement features a cutting-edge, 30,000-square-foot health club and a 27,000-square-foot Allied Well being Construction. Moreover, all the 27-acre website online will go through improvements, that includes new concrete, paving, landscaping and strolling paths.
The mission scope features a complete website online construction at the japanese aspect of the campus. The brand new gymnasium will change the prevailing gymnasium constructing and supply a consolidated location for athletics instruction areas, locker rooms, kinesiology and a wellness middle. The brand new well being constructing will supply a consolidated location and suitable amenities for methods.
The 34 groups that participated in ABC’s 2024 Development Control Festival are:
- Appalachian State College, ABC Carolinas bankruptcy
- Auburn College, ABC Alabama bankruptcy
- Ball State College, ABC Indiana/Kentucky bankruptcy
- Clemson College, ABC Carolinas bankruptcy
- Colorado State College, ABC Rocky Mountain bankruptcy
- East Carolina College, ABC Carolinas bankruptcy
- Ferris State College, ABC Western Michigan bankruptcy
- Florida Gulf Coast College, ABC Florida Gulf Coast bankruptcy
- Florida World College, ABC Florida East Coast bankruptcy
- Kent State College, ABC Northern Ohio bankruptcy
- Louisiana State College, ABC Pelican bankruptcy
- Michigan State College, ABC Higher Michigan bankruptcy
- Minnesota State College Moorhead, ABC Minnesota/North Dakota bankruptcy
- Minnesota State College, Mankato, ABC Minnesota/North Dakota bankruptcy
- Mississippi State College, ABC Mississippi bankruptcy
- Norfolk State College, ABC Virginia bankruptcy
- North Carolina A&T State College, ABC Carolinas bankruptcy
- Pennsylvania School of Generation, ABC Keystone bankruptcy
- Prairie View A&M College, ABC Higher Houston bankruptcy
- Purdue College, ABC Indiana/Kentucky bankruptcy
- Seminole State School, ABC Central Florida bankruptcy
- Texas State College, ABC Central Texas bankruptcy
- The College of Alabama, ABC Alabama bankruptcy
- The College of Southern Mississippi, ABC Mississippi bankruptcy
- The College of Texas at San Antonio, ABC South Texas bankruptcy
- College of Central Florida, ABC Central Florida bankruptcy
- College of Cincinnati, ABC Ohio Valley bankruptcy
- College of Florida, ABC Florida Gulf Coast bankruptcy
- College of Louisiana at Lafayette, ABC Pelican bankruptcy
- College of North Florida, ABC Florida First Coast bankruptcy
- College of Northern Iowa, ABC Iowa bankruptcy
- College of Tennessee, Knoxville, ABC Higher Tennessee bankruptcy
- College of Wisconsin–Platteville, ABC Wisconsin bankruptcy
- College of Wisconsin–Stout, ABC Wisconsin bankruptcy
All members are energetic participants of the ABC Nationwide Pupil Bankruptcy Community, which connects native ABC chapters to varsities and universities with building control methods to construct the skill pipeline and mentor long term leaders of the development trade.
DEWALT® is dedicated to empowering the following era of tradespeople and is the presenting sponsor of ABC’s Nationwide Pupil Bankruptcy Community. The contest could also be supported by means of Autodesk® Development Cloud, which supplies building control device depended on by means of developers on greater than 2 million tasks; Gordian, a supplier of data-driven answers for all stages of the constructing lifecycle; and ABC’s Trimmer Development Schooling Fund, which promotes a secure, professional, sustainable and numerous benefit store building group of workers.
A complete listing of the winners is to be had at abc.org/cmc.
