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The Company

Teambuild 2018

The Company was once more a co-sponsor of Teambuild’s “Future Leaders” Competition, which culminated in a weekend of
frenetic but constructive rivalry in mid-November 2018 at the Lane End Conference Centre in leafy Buckinghamshire. Due to
indisposition, the Master was unfortunately unable to be present.
The competition is a cross-disciplinary construction contest organised by the charity Teambuild UK which pits teams from tier
one, two and three companies to plan, design and build a real design-and-build project via a simulated scenario. Teams face a
series of challenges that replicate real life design and construction tasks, and have to develop innovative and creative
solutions to a variety of realistic scenarios. Teams have also (literally) to think on their feet, as the scenarios involve
presentations to demanding clients and their advisers, and handling worried stakeholders, and they need to cope with a
number of unexpected but very realistic onsite eventualities.
The site and project for the 2018 competition were generously provided by St Edward Homes, a residential-led mixed-use
development at Green Park Village, west of Reading.
The winning team, Consilio, were awarded a cash prize of £2000 once again sponsored by the Worshipful Company of
Constructors. In the absence of Master Mike Parrett (who was indisposed), the prize was presented by Past Master Patricia
Bessey, a 2018 judge and TeambuildUK trustee. The team were commended for their professional and ingenious solutions to
the challenging problems set, and comprised Alice Galvin (Landscape Institute, BDP), Jon Hall (IEMA, BDP), Rodolfo Leon
(ITESM, BDP), Christina McHugh (CIBSE, BDP), Gergana Popova (RIBA, BDP), and Marcel Peeperkorn (PMI, Mace).

The Procurement, Contract and Risk Prize worth £1500 was sponsored by the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects
and was presented by the Master, Barry Munday, to Aedifico, a team from Buro Happold Engineering and Cartwright Pickard.

An individual prize for leadership worth £500 was once again sponsored by the London Chamber of Commerce & Industry’s
Commercial Education Trust and was presented by Clinton Leeks, a liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Constructors, to
Marcel Peeperkorn, a project manager from Mace.

The competitors’ performance was evaluated by a panel of 7 senior industry figures, representing a wide range of disciplines,
including Barry Munday (Master of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects), Patricia Bessey and Richard Rooley (both
Past Masters of the Worshipful Company of Constructors and the latter founder of Teambuild), and Clinton Leeks (a company
liveryman).

The winning team are pictured on the right and the
picture on the left shows Mike Peeperkorn, the winner
of the leadership prize being presented with his prize
by Liveryman Clinton Leeks.

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