Posted On February 19, 2019
Winners announced for TRADA University Challenge 2019
Students design “healthy” student multi-storey accommodation from timber as part of two-day charrette-styled competition that invited architects, architectural technologists, engineers, landscape architects and quantity surveying undergraduates from UK universities to participate.
G&T’s Oliver Booth was on the judging panel for this year’s event, helping teams find solutions to the brief - ‘To design “healthy” student accommodation predominantly from timber’. The challenge took place 8–9th February at the University of Sheffield’s Diamond building. 60 students from 25 universities split into 10 teams of six - competing to see who could design, cost and engineer accommodation that used timber and timber products to emphasise health and wellbeing, energy efficiency, and building to budget. An existing site in the heart of Sheffield’s shopping district grounded and gave real life constraints to the project brief.