“Three-Minute Competition” is a well-known event initiated by AACE Montreal Section back in 2019, in which tens of candidates at Master’s and PhD level, from different universities around the world present their theses as a short ‘elevator pitch’, to a panel of judges from academia and industry, with an emphasis on project controls. Thirty-two (32) candidates from topnotch universities in Canada, US and Middle-East (i.e. Concordia, ETS, University of Toronto, UBC, TEXAS A&M, Pennsylvania State Universities, Georgia Institute of Technology, etc.) applied to this year’s competition, from which twenty (20) finalists got qualified for the two sections the presentation and the poster section.

AACE Montreal is pleased to host the three top winners of the presentation section of the competition, to have an extended presentation of their projects for the AACE audience. A group of panelists will provide their insights on the presentations. Winners are awarded a combination of cash prizes sponsored by AACE Montreal, HATCH and SNC-Lavalin.

The winning presenters and topics are:

1 Amit Ojha Human-Centric Non-Invasive Physiological Sensing System for Early Detection of Construction Workers' Heat Stress

2 Shayan Jorjam Stochastic 4D Simulation of Multi-purpose Utility Tunnels Construction Methods

3 Danilo Caron Project Delivery with Indigenous Communities and Methods to Incorporate Indigenous Ways of Knowing

The panelists are:

1 Rebecca Dziedzic PhD, Assistant Professor, Concordia UniversityDepartment of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering

2 Ashwin Lala B. Eng., WCA – Regional Manager – Project ControlsProject Delivery Group, Hatch

3 Amin Jahanshahi M. Eng., PMP, PMI-RMP, CCP, Change Manager, EJV-NouvLR Project