Structural Concrete competition winners 2025
The Concrete Centre’s annual student Structural Concrete competition has been won by Harivignesh Pitchai, Aishwarya Santhosh, Bala Karthika Balakrishnan and Fathima Razeena Mohamed Basheer of University of East London.
The Concrete Centre held a prize giving awards ceremony at an evening seminar on 6 November 2025, where the winners were awarded their certificates.
The 2025 competition attracted entries from across UK schools of engineering and three prizes were awarded.
- First prize - Harivignesh Pitchai, Aishwarya Santhosh, Bala Karthika Balakrishnan and Fathima Razeena Mohamed Basheer of University of East London.
- Second prize - Roochie Cosico, University of Surrey.
- Sustainability Award - Cedric Muscat, George McPhie, Yuxuan Liu and Jinyu Liu, Imperial College, London.
Jenny Burridge, judge and Head of Education and Training at the Concrete Centre said “This year’s project was a six-storey hotel with a single storey feature restaurant over the adjoining dock. The students had the option of putting a single row of columns into the dock to support the restaurant. The judges were impressed by how the students tackled the problem and with the solutions that they proposed.”
Harivignesh Pitchai, Aishwarya Santhosh, Bala Karthika Balakrishnan and Fathima Razeena Mohamed Basheer from the University of East London impressed with their high quality, well considered submission. They produced excellent sketches and drawings together with neat and comprehensive calculations for their in-situ scheme which delivered the client’s brief.
Roochie Cosico from the University of Surrey showed a good understanding of structural principles in coming up with his precast concrete solution. Very neat and well-presented drawings and a clear, concise and specific sustainability report completed his submission.
Cedric Muscat, George McPhie, Yuxuan Liu and Jinyu Liu from Imperial College, London showed an understanding of the issues that might arise when reviewing the building in 50 years’ time, and considered the marine environment of the hotel and the columns supporting the restaurant in their well written sustainability report.
The brief for the next competition, Structural Concrete 2026 was also launched at the event - to design a luxury residential building forming part of an extensive redevelopment of a former industrial site close to the centre of a large UK town. More information can be found at www.concretecentre.com/competition
