Two teams from the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) took part in IDEERS 2026, an earthquake engineering competition held from 5 to 7 November at Taiwan’s National Center for Research on Earthquake Engineering (NCREE) in Taipei.
The team in the postgraduate category, Malaysia’s only entry in that category and made up of four students who are still undergraduates, finished in the top six and won three awards: Best Presentation, Design Concept Exhibition and Aesthetic Architecture. The undergraduate team placed 16th out of 40 international institutions, the best result of any Malaysian university, and its tower earned earthquake-resistance and structural-integrity certificates.
The students built models of earthquake-resistant structures that were put to the test on a shake table. Their participation was supported by UTM’s eSEER engineering seismology research group and industry sponsors.
