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The Master’s Year

That winning team, excelling against a strong field, was formed of individuals from companies
across the spectrum of the construction industry. Every competitor, selected after a rigorous pre-
Qualification stage, had less than six years’ experience in industry; the scenarios were designed to
test them to their limits. In this pressurised, fast-paced environment, the competitors demonstrated
excellent team-working and collaboration skills. The winning team, named after a pub which hosted
some of their preparatory meetings, was awarded a cash prize of £2,000, sponsored by the
Worshipful Company of Constructors.
Teambuild 2016 challenged teams to plan, design and present hypothetical proposals based around
the New Papworth Hospital; an exciting development on Cambridge Biomedical Campus, currently
underway on site. Skanska and HOK were generous enough to provide the teams with real site
information to form the basis of their hypothetical scenarios, giving an added sense of realism to the
proceedings.

Photograph by kind permission of TeamBuild
Nine teams, representing twenty-four top construction industry companies, made it through to the
hotly-contested finals, and impressed throughout with their professionalism, enthusiasm and
dedication. Their performance was evaluated by fourteen senior industry figures, each representing
a construction institution. This year the panel included Richard Brindley (Master of the Worshipful
Company of Chartered Architects), Ian Mason (Master of the Worshipful Company of Constructors),
Patricia Bessey (PM Worshipful Company of Constructors), and Professor Dejan Mumovic (FCIBSE).
The diversity of the judging panel was reflected in the institutional membership and employers of
members of the winning team: Miles Christoforides (IStructE, Eckersley O’Callaghan); Claire Hicks
(WSP | Parson Brinckerhoff), Ahmad Khattab (ICE, WSP | Parson Brinckerhoff); Richard Laplanche
(CIOB, Kier Construction); Conor Maguire (ARB, Hawkins\Brown); and Matthew Vice (CIBSE, Hoare
Lea).
The Procurement Strategy Prize of £1,500, awarded by the Worshipful Company of Chartered
Architects, was awarded by Master Richard Brindley to “We Built That”, a team from Bam

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