Posted On January 24, 2019
On the lookout for tomorrow's timber talent
TRADA University Challenge 2019
On 8-9th February 60 UK students will gather in Sheffield for a charrette-style challenge to design healthy student accommodation predominantly from timber.
G&T Partner, Oliver Booth, is supporting the TRADA University Challenge and will form part of the judging panel across the two days. The Challenge brings 60 students from multiple disciplines and universities together at the University of Sheffield鈥檚 Diamond Building, separates them into ten teams of six and then challenges them to design a building predominantly from timber. The 2019 challenge invites students to design exemplary student accommodation, with an emphasis on health and well-being, energy efficiency and building to budget.
This year students will be asked to design to a tight brief, incorporating sponsors鈥� products while working around real life constraints provided by the existing site chosen for this challenge, an old shopping centre in the heart of Sheffield鈥檚 shopping district. As an additional challenge and to emulate real life experience, students of quantity surveying have been added to each team this year to stress the importance of building to budget. Each team will include two architects or architectural technologists, two engineers, a landscape architect and a quantity surveyor 鈥� creating situations and relationships comparable to project teams, with pioneering design professionals and industry members providing specialist support.
"We want to help students gain confidence in how to design, specify, cost and build with timber and timber products"鈥婽abitha Binding, TRADA鈥檚 University Engagement Manager
Tabitha Binding, TRADA鈥檚 University Engagement Manager, shared:
鈥極ur University Challenge is all 撸撸视频app putting multidisciplinary teams, where students have not met prior, up against a strict deadline and watching them flourish while working together within a practical context. We want to help students gain confidence in how to design, specify, cost and build with timber and timber products鈥�.
鈥榃atching last year鈥檚 challenge, Urban Buzz 2018, unfold was an inspiration,鈥� Tabitha continued, 鈥業 can鈥檛 wait to meet this year鈥檚 cohort, amongst whom I have no doubt we鈥檒l find some more of tomorrow鈥檚 timber talent鈥�.
"I can鈥檛 wait to meet this year鈥檚 cohort, amongst whom I have no doubt we鈥檒l find some more of tomorrow鈥檚 timber talent"TABITHA BINDING, TRADA鈥橲 UNIVERSITY ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
Universities involved include
- Bath
- Bournemouth
- Bristol
- Canterbury
- Cardiff
- Coventry
- Derby
- Dundee
- Edinburgh Napier
- Herts
- Leicester DMU
- Liverpool
- Newcastle
- Norwich
- Nottingham Trent
- Reading
- Salford
- Sheffield
- Sheffield Hallam
- Strathclyde
- Trinity St David
- UEL
- USW
- UWE
Confirmed judges include architects Alex Abbey of Cullinan Studio, Waugh Thistleton鈥檚 Kieran Walker and dRMM鈥檚 Patrick Usborne, engineers Tom Harley-Tuffs of Ramboll, AKT II鈥檚 Ricardo Candel and Arup鈥檚 Jaffel Versi, as well as quantity surveyor Oliver Booth of Gardiner & Theobald and landscape architect Stephanie Crewe of LUC.
For more information, please contact tbinding@trada.co.uk.