Educational Trust - Major Competitions
The Pai Lin Li Travel Award makes grants of between £1,000 and £3,000 to IStructE members who wish to spend four to six weeks outside their own country studying current practice or trends related to the use of any construction material in the field of structural engineering. The Institution is particularly keen to encourage take-up of the award in relation to innovative materials and construction techniques.
The Award provides an unrivalled opportunity to sample the technical, economic, social and political conditions in another country and to examine how these various factors affect the practice of structural engineering.
Information on the 2009 award can be found by clicking here.
Held annually, the IStructE Schools Challenge is a practical ''''design and make'''' activity, organised by the Institution of Structural Engineers, assisted by Input and funded by the Institution''''s Educational Trust. The event is designed to promote awareness of structural engineering and the part that it plays in the modern environment to students aged between 14 and 16 years. The approach taken however is not that of a ''''hard sell'''' to students, but rather that of encouraging students to consider structural engineering as a possibility for a challenging and rewarding career.
The Young Structural Engineers International Design Competition is run every 3 years and aims to encourage ingenuity, imagination and inventiveness in young structural engineers. The competition is open to structural engineers and individuals under the age of 30 who are taking, or have successfully taken, a recognised civil and/or structural engineering course of study.
It is supported by the John Barrett Fund and the David Alsop Fund, and is sponsored by the following firms: Arup, Atkins, BDP, Bianchi Morley Ltd, Buro Happold, Clancy Consulting Ltd, Flint & Neill Partnership, Mott MacDonald Ltd, Pell Frischmann Consultants Ltd, Price & Myers and URS Corporation.
There are 4 prizes available:
- The John Barrett Prize - this is awarded to winner of the competition with £5,000 and a certificate. The prize was named in memory of the life and work of John Barrett, who was a young Member of the Institution keen to develop design skills in young structural engineers, and who sadly died in the Clapham rail collision in 1988;
- The Drury Medal of IStructE is awarded to the best entry submitted by an individual under 25 years of age;
- The David Alsop Prize is for the best entry from a country of low GNI;
- The Undergraduate Prize is awarded to the best entry submitted by undergraduates with £1,000 and a certificate of commendation.
The brief for the 2008 competition is to produce a legacy use for an Olympic stadium and its site. The stadium is to be a landmark prestige structure, worthy of the Olympic Games, and is to be representative of the city and country in which it is built. However the legacy facility is to be useful and economically viable over a projected structural life of 50 years. The design should not be wasteful of resources, either in the original construction, or in any subsequent use. For full details and entry criteria, click here.
For details of the 2005 winners, click here.
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