The design for the PCI Big Beam was completed in late March and fabricated on April 4, 2025. Thank you to Tpac for making this beam possible.
The following are alternative designs the team developed in order to meet the competition constraints.
The following is an excerpt from the report describing how the decision matrix and performance multipliers function.
To keep the competition fair across all regions, the PCI Big Beam Competition determined a pricing structure for cost.
The pricing structure is shown below.
For an estimated concrete strength of 8 ksi (f'c), the cost is as follows.
