Multi-university student team wins timber design challenge with ‘excellent’ retrofit project

Posted on 24 Jul 2023 by James Devonshire
(L-R) Tabitha Binding, Head of Education, Timber Development UK. Dafyn Richards, Plymouth University. Deepak Sadhwani, Cardiff University. Daniel Green, London Metropolitan University. Beverley Gibbs, CAO NMITE. Absent: Shweta Salvankar, Cardiff University. Irene Dumitrascu-Podogrocki, Newcastle University. Martin Juricek. Heriot-Watt University.
(L-R) Tabitha Binding, Head of Education, Timber Development UK. Dafyn Richards, Plymouth University. Deepak Sadhwani, Cardiff University. Daniel Green, London Metropolitan University. Beverley Gibbs, CAO NMITE. Absent: Shweta Salvankar, Cardiff University. Irene Dumitrascu-Podogrocki, Newcastle University. Martin Juricek. Heriot-Watt University.

A mixed-discipline student team featuring built environment students from across the UK took top spot in the Timber Development UK University Design Challenge 2023 (#TDChallenge23), as they competed to reimagine and retrofit a real-life building using timber.

TDChallenge is the pre-eminent competition for students to learn how to design and build with timber, a sustainable, low-carbon building material, while providing skills they can take into their careers by simulating real challenges the students will face. Fiercely competitive, from the 150+ who first registered, 34 students from 22 universities were selected from across…

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