Under the official rules, there stated a damper rule. But I wasn’t able to find it in the EERI website.

There would be a separate deadline for submitting a damper proposal. The damper proposal requirements would be released soon.

I was wondering if we are to register in the 2024 Annual Meeting in Seattle because the EERI 2024 SDC is the same date and time as the meeting or we register somewhere else for the EERI 2024 SDC. I was also wondering if the Special Session Proposals and Poster Abstracts is needed for EERI 2024 SDC or is it something else because the due date is coming up on October 17th and I wanted to make sure. Do we just need to follow the schedule on 2024 Seismic Design Competition website? We are also waiting for the 2024 rules and other documents for the competition, so would it be possible if you post updates in the discord whenever it is updated on the website?

Registration for SDC team members has not opened yet. The Special Sessions Proposals and Poster abstracts are not part of the SDC, but rather the conference portion of the EERI Annual Meeting. The schedule on the SDC website is a good guide as for when to expect milestones to occur and we will be posting […]

I noticed that the rules and design guide mention that GM#1 will be released on the SDC website. However, it doesn’t appear to be up yet. Will GM#1 be released before the proposal is due?

GM#1 will be released after the proposal due date, sometime in January.

We would like to know if there is any limit to the number of advisors we can have. We currently have one faculty advisor. My team and I were looking to get advice from a different professor but he has requested that he be made an advisor first. Are teams limited to one advisor, or does the term “advisor” mentioned in the rules simply refer to anyone who advises the team, with or without an official position?

There is no limit to the number of faculty advisors a team can have, but each team needs at least one. The “advisor” mentioned in the rules refers to anyone who may advise the team, whether that’s a grad student, professor, or working professional. If this professor wants to become an official faculty advisor, then […]

We noticed that there is a new rule to not use Styrofoam beads, our team uses and reuses each year the larger size packing peanuts are these still allowed? or should we be looking for alternatives?

You can keep using the large size packing peanuts as in the previous years, as long as you maintain the cleanliness of the setup room and your workspace throughout the competition.