Regular Content
How To
Humour
Motivational
Design and CAD
Single Page Dot Point
Engineering Trivia
Trivia Archive

Get this weeks

Engineering Trivia Challenge!!

A new set of Questions

EVERY WEEK

 

Challenge your workmates.

Find out who knows the most useless trivia. 

Login to EngCom



Save to del.ico.us Save This Page

UQ bamboo structure gains international recognition
 
A group of UQ students have won an international award for the intuitive design of an emergency bamboo shelter, which could be your saving grace when a natural disaster strikes.

The UQ team's sustainable structure recently won third place in the student contest organised by the International Association for Shells and Spatial Structures (IASS) , for a Light Weight Structure with a Sustainable Approach.
Thursday 30 October, 2008 03:39 AM
 
< Prev   Next >
[ Back ]
"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible" - Freeman Dyson