The ITS team celebrates its success in the 2018 KJI-KBGI event

Makassar, ITS News – A proud achievement was again achieved by Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS) team. This time, the ITS Team won the General Champion at the 14th Indonesia Bridge Competition (KJI) and 3rd Place in the 10th Indonesian Building Competition (KBGI) held at the University of Hassanudin, Makassar, which ended on Sunday (2/12) night.

At this prestigious event of civil engineering that was held on the 30th of November, ITS won three categories from six categories contested in the KJI Baja class. The three categories is the category of Conformity Implementation to Design that won The Best, the category of Occupational Health and Safety (K3) won The Most Complete, and the category of bridge won The Strongest.

Furthermore, ITS also managed to win one of the six categories contested in the KJI Canai Dingin class. The category of implementation for the best design helped deliver ITS to sit second in KJI Canai Dingin.

KJI Baja coach, Raden Buyung Anugraha Affandhie ST (three from the right) showed off the KJI 2018 General Champion trophy

KJI coach, Aniendhita Rizki Amalia ST MT expressed her pride at the KJI Team’s guidance. Especially with the title of this overall champion, ITS managed to repeat its glory in 2015. “These kids have tried to the maximum, this is truly a pride,” she said.

The Civil Engineering lecturer explained, different from the last year, this year ITS team was a combination of Diploma and Bachelor students. “The team involved two departments, namely the Department of Civil Engineering (bachelor, red) and the Department of Civil Infrastructure Engineering (diploma, red), you could say this is a joint achievement that was successfully inscribed by ITS,” she said proudly.

Responding to the KBGI Team that won the overall champion last year, this year they must be satisfied to be in the third place, she still expressed his pride. Because, ITS also won the champion in the category of creativity in design and construction methods. “I think their performance is quite good,” she said.

The assembly process in KJI Arch Bridge by ITS team

For KJI Bow itself, she believes in mental strength when competing becomes an obstacle for the ITS team to win. “Actually, the KJI Arch Bridge team itself often won the race, but, in this competition the kids said that they were nervous,” said the KJI Canai Dingin coach.

In addition, according to her, preparation to regenerate the team has begun through the participation of crew members from 2016 and 2017 generation. Students will be evaluated in the future to improve the performance of ITS team in the next competition. “We will hold an evaluation later after the euphoria of this victory is complete,” she concluded. (hen/Anjani/ITS Public Relation Officer)

ITS Team while waiting for the results of the announcement of the 2018 KJI – KBGI champion