Five students who have recently completed their fourth year in the School of Architecture have had success at the recently held Concrete Design Competition, including a team who shared overall first place.

The winning entry was submitted by Ray McGreal and Coilin Dorgeain, Jenny Kingston was third overall, with Bozidar Milosevic and David Williams being awarded 2 of the 3 special mentions awarded this year. This is the fifth cycle of the biennial Concrete DesignCompetition which is an international event with five participating nations, organised in Ireland by the Irish Concrete Society. The theme of this years competition was energy and concrete, and as part of their prize, Ray, Coilin and Jenny will represent Ireland at an international symposium on energy and concrete which will be held this year at the end of August in the Netherlands.