DOSS stands for the Dutch Open Student STEEL (DOSS) Award: the annual international prize, initiated by the Technical University Delft and the Dutch Steel Construction Institute Bouwen met Staal and supported by various acknowledged organisations, educational institutions, and design-, build and steel production companies worldwide.
The award works out as an epochal appreciation and recognition of MSC students in civil engineering at (technical) universities from all the world, who have incorporated in a distinctive and representative way the features, possibilities, and benefits of steel for structural application in their graduation projects. Meanwhile the award also challenges and encourages next generations of graduation students to do so in the future. Thus, making their contribution to the ongoing upgrading of the usage of steel for civil structures in worldwide practice; making it (even)more aesthetic, reliable, economic, smart, long lived, and green.
That’s in it for us all.
The DOSS Award might just be your ‘claim to fame’ in the world of civil engineering. Just by taking part with your thesis, you’ll be winning the full attention of a broad collective of respected expert professionals, gathered in the international DOSS Award jury.
When receiving a nomination for the prize, you can present and discuss your project during a public online GRAND DOSS FINAL in April, attended by all those that matter within the international steel building industry. At this event the winner(s) will be announced.
First prize winner(s) will be rewarded with 2.500 Euro, second prize winners with (of course) half of it: 1.250 Euro.
Participation in the DOSS Award is possible for graduation projects that incorporate a key role for steel. The project can be in the field of structural design, engineering as well as research and (product)development or combinations.
The jury measures all projects on the issues:
objectives and ambitions • originality and aesthetics • creativity and ingenuity • thoroughness • context • relevance for civil engineering knowledge and practice • (smart) application and performance. The jury pays special notice to projects that trigger the innovative and sustainable application of steel in civil structures.
MEMBERS OF THE JURY 2025:
Yoo Sang Choo (Adjunct Professor in Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at National University Singapore, Singapore) • Alan Dunsmore (Chief Executive Officer of Severfield plc, United Kingdom) • Markus Feldmann (Professor Steel Structures and Head of Department Institut für Stahlbau, RWTH Aachen, Germany) • Leroy Gardener (Professor of Structural Engineering at Imperial College, London, United Kingdom) • Bernhard Hauke (Editorial Director of the Ernst & Sohn publishing house, Berlin, Germany) • Florentia Kavoura (Assistant Professor of Steel and Composite Structures, TU Delft, Department of Civil Engineering and Geosciences) • Ulrike Kuhlmann (Professor at Institut für Konstruktion und Entwurf, Universität Stuttgart) • Raffaele Landolfo (Full Professor in Structural Engineering and Head of the Department of Structures for Engineering at University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy) • Frank Maatje (Managing Director Dutch Steel Construction Institute 'Bouwen met Staal', Zoetermeer, Netherlands) • Gang Shi (Professor Steel Structures at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China) • Luís Simões da Silva (Professor of Structural Mechanics, University of Coimbra, Portugal) • Andreas Taras (Full Professor of Steel Construction and Composite Structures at ETH Zurich, Switzerland) • Oliver Vassart (Chief Executive Officer Steligence ArcelorMittal, Liège, Belgium) • Milan Veljkovic (Professor of Steel and Composite Structures, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) • Brian Uy (Professor of Structural Engineering and Head of the School of Civil Engineering at the University of Sydney, Australia) • Peter Zeman (director of Zeco and chairman of FMTI Bildungsausschuss, Vienna, Austria)
