The team from the Bánki Faculty of Obuda University (Zsombor Kovács, Regő Rédei, Dávid Dunavölgyi, and Szilárd Márkos) once again participated in the professional bridge-building competition held during the 11th Bridges and Bridge Builders Day, which this year took place in Győr.
This year, the task was to build a bridge with a minimum span of 3.65 meters. However, unlike in previous years, the materials were not pre-distributed to the teams. Instead, teams had to gather them from a bulk storage area, and only 60% of the needed amount was available for each.
The team performed excellently. Despite having no opportunity to practice and collecting only 112 slats — which turned out to be 50 mm shorter than the dimensions provided beforehand — they managed to redesign their structure quickly and completed the bridge within 8 minutes.
Among the university teams, first place went to the team from Széchenyi István University, whose bridge held 25 paving stones. In a close contest, Obuda University’s team followed with a bridge that supported 21 paving stones, outperforming the Budapest University of Technology and Economics team, whose bridge held 13 paving stones. We are very proud of our students and colleagues for working together so effectively and achieving such an impressive result!
