NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE — Competing against some of the top engineering schools in North America, Willowbank students demonstrated they don’t build them like they used too.

Except that they do.

The students recently returned from the Association for Preservation Technology International- National Trust for Canada conference in Ottawa, where they took part in the finals of a multi-phased student design-build competition among universities in the research, design, construction and testing of historic arches.