Online News--Leading U.K. Designer Launches Design Competition for Schools
CITB-ConstructionSkills is taking a novel approach to the skills gap in the construction industry with a new building and design competition called Creative Spaces.
CITB-ConstructionSkills is taking a novel approach to the skills gap in the construction industry by targeting 11- to 14-year-old pupils with a new building and design competition called Creative Spaces. The competition, launched by Wayne Hemingway as part of National
Construction Week (October 8-15, 2003), asks pupils to re-design part of their school and has a GBP50,000 top prize, allowing the winning school to actually build their competition submission. Regional winners will also receive GBP3,000.
The idea behind the competition is to tackle the skills gap in the construction industry by challenging any negative perceptions of construction in the classroom. Top designer and Creative Spaces judge Wayne Hemingway is delighted to be involved: "I believe we are becoming a nation obsessed by celebrity and so-called glamorous professions," he said, "but we are in danger of losing skills that are vital to the nation. Creative Spaces offers pupils a great opportunity to get involved in construction and find out how creative working in the construction industry is."