The team won over their competitors and brought the 1st place prize home. Khanif, the team leader, explained that they proposed the Joglo Kahuripan agrotourism concept. Their proposal is an agrotourism concept based on agricultural education that offers a ‘back to nature’ concept for the visitors through its integrated agriculture.

“Melon, fish, and maggot cultivation as the representative of life. We combined (the concept) with the local wisdom of Central Java culture, which is threatened with extinction,” Khanif explained to the uns.ac.id team on Friday (4/2/2021).

Khanif and the team consider the presence of agrotourism in the community is greatly needed to provide comprehension on the importance of the agricultural sector in the community while maintaining the high community interests toward the tourism sector. In Joglo Kahuripan, the offered agrotourism concept that introduces the plant cultivation process from the seedlings to harvesting.

Regarding the name of Joglo Kahuripan, Khanif explained that the name was selected because it could represent the agrotourism concept that the proposed. Joglo is the name of Central Java traditional house, while “kahuripan” means life. Thus, together the name means the center of life. Khanif stated in the interview that the team was delighted with their achievement.

“(We are) delighted because I have not participated in a competition for a long time. I could also collaborate with the fellows from engineering faculty,” Khanif explained.

To achieve their win, the group was challenged to combine the ideas from students from different disciplines and visualize their final idea. At the end of the interview, Khanif shared the importance of collaboration. “We do not need to be a specialist to be beneficial in a certain field. We could collaborate to create benefits. Collaboration is what we need,” Khanif stated. Humas UNS

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To uns.ac.id, Faqih explained that the competition was opened with an offer to propose an innovation for building construction amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The building was an Integrated Engineering Laboratory Building Universitas Jember, six floors building, 2,208.8 m building on 25,000 m2 land. The team used the Building Information Modelling innovation with the Naviswork application. “This innovation has easy access using HP and tablet that reduces the risk of rework and spread of Covid-19,” Faqih explained on Tuesday (21/12/2021).

Interesting visualization and time saving are other benefits offered by the SS-07 Bearnes Team, which also incorporated the concept of lean construction in their plan. Their computation showed that the construction work would take 163 working works with IDR 23.3 billion costs, including 10% VAT. The offer was then formulated in a tender document that contains technical offers, site layout, innovation, strategy, implementation method, scheduling, and work safety aspects. The team also included offered prices and a Bill of Quantities (BoQ) for the project.

This achievement made the team member delighted and grateful. Their one-month hard work pays off. The team also stated that they participated in Semar Solid Community that enables them to compete with other universities such as Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), Politeknik Negeri Semarang, and Politeknik Negeri Banyuwangi. The achievement will encourage them to work better in the future and as a learning experience for the team.

“In the future, we want to participate in other competitions. Hopefully, our expectation or target is to win the 1^st prize,” Faqih said. Humas UNS

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