As part of UK Construction Week this week, the construction industry has been reaching out to High school children in order to educate them about the industry. Two different groups of Year 10 students enjoyed an interactive talk about the construction industry during their Resistant Materials GCSE lessons. The talks
The shortlist for the World Architecture Festival has been revealed. The Festival will be celebrating their tenth year this year and has seen a record amount of entries for the awards, 924, which is up 18% on the submissions from 2016. The Festival will be held this year in Berlin
The most influential people in international architecture have been announced as a new Super Jury. This new Jury, will be who decides the award winners at the tenth World Architecture Festival. The Festival is being held this year in the Arena Berlin, Germany between the 15th and the 17th November
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As part of UK Construction Week this week, the construction industry has been reaching out to High school children in order to educate them about the industry. Two different groups of Year 10 students enjoyed an interactive talk about the construction industry during their Resistant Materials GCSE lessons. The talks were given to the students of The Gilberd School in Colchester by Countryside on Monday 9th October. The students were told about two different aspect of the company. Ian Ritchie, the Senior Project Manager for Beaulieu development in Chelmsford; and Daniel Hearn, a Countryside graduate and now Marketing Co-ordinator both spoke to the students about their roles at the home building company. UK Construction Week is the perfect opportunity to try and engage with students, and supply extra information about the construction industry in order to try and recruit more prospective apprentices and workers for the industry. Supplying more information about the industry and the different jobs and career opportunities could encourage more school leavers to consider a career in the industry. The presentation given by Ian and Daniel allowed the Resistant Materials students to learn more about the most up to date construction techniques as well as the different types of jobs available in construction as well as the skills that are required. The students were also encouraged to ask questions throughout the talk about the industry. Countryside is working on a development close to The Gilberd School, in Chesterwell. As part of the development a range of different amenities are expected to be improved, with proposals for a new primary and secondary school included in the development. I9t is great that the development company are giving back to the community they are working in by giving talks as well as working to hopefully recruit the construction workers of the future. Countryside are committed to the training of future skilled workers with apprenticeships, Interns, Placement Year Students and Graduates employed throughout the business.
The shortlist for the World Architecture Festival has been revealed. The Festival will be celebrating their tenth year this year and has seen a record amount of entries for the awards, 924, which is up 18% on the submissions from 2016. The Festival will be held this year in Berlin in November and will showcase a variety of projects that have been submitted from all over the world. Due to the increase in residential submission that have been made this year there has been a new Villa category introduced. Also included in the submissions are innovative designs such as floating Student accommodation that has been designed for Copenhagen, and a futuristic pharmacy submitted from Japan. The Festival allows for the smaller architectural firms to compete against the bigger firms in the world’s largest architectural awards scheme. The shortlist that has been announced includes 434 entries and the UK has the most representation of architectural firms in the awards programme. The entries that have made it onto the shortlist have to present their design in a live judging session that will take place at the World Architecture festival between the 15th and the 17th November. The winners of each category will then go forward in order to compete for Building of the Year, Future Project of the Year and Landscape of the Year. The presentations will take place in front of over 100 international judges, with the so called Super Jury deciding on the 18 category winners. This Super Jurty will be headed by Robert Ivy, the former editor of Architectural Record and CEO of the American Institute of Architects. Also involved in the judging will be Nathalie de Vries who is the Director and Co-founder of the Dutch practice MVRDV, Ian Ritchie, founder of Ian Ritchie Architects in London and Christoph Ingenhoven the founder of the German Architectural practice Ingenhoven Architects.
The most influential people in international architecture have been announced as a new Super Jury. This new Jury, will be who decides the award winners at the tenth World Architecture Festival. The Festival is being held this year in the Arena Berlin, Germany between the 15th and the 17th November 2017. The Super Jury will be judging the entrants of the World Architecture Festival Awards. These awards are at the heart of the Festival as they look to celebrate the excellence shown by architects in projects around the world. The Super Jury for the 2017 festival includes Robert Ivy, the Chief Executive Officer for the American Institute of Architects. Robert Ivy will be the chair of the Super Jury at this year’s festival. Robert will be joined by The Director and Co-founder of MVRDV, Nathalie de Vries; Ian Ritchie, founder of his eponymous Ian Ritchie Architects and Christoph Ingenhoven, who created Ingenhoven Architects. The World Architecture Festival Awards consists of 31 different categories, where the entrants that have been shortlisted will be competing for prizes. These awards have been called the Oscars of the Architecture world and winning an award at the festival will be great publicity for the project and the architectural firm. These Awards are expected to take place over the course of the first two days of the three-day Festival. On the final day of the festival, the winners of each category will then have to present to the upper Jury who will then select the winners of the World Landscape, Future Project and Completed Building of the Year Awards. The deadline for the Awards programme has been extended until the 2nd June, which will allow more architects to enter their final projects in order to receive global recognition. This extension was announced as there was a significant number of applicants who wanted more time in order to complete their entry.
