Calling all students of the built environment - ready for a retrofit challenge?

CLIMATE RESPONSIVE RETROFIT DESIGN CHALLENGE

Retrofit is essential; It’s more challenging than new-build, and it takes a team of caring professionals to accomplish schemes that work. Our future professionals must grasp the complexity and embrace the constraints and challenges. This year we are pleased to announce that #TDChallenge23 will tackle the improvement of an existing timber frame building to?EnerPHit?or AECB retrofit standard.

This nationwide competition is open to any student (or recent graduate)?of Built Environment courses from UK Universities. The challenge?fosters multi-disciplinary teamwork and?will run until Summer 2023. There is a limit of 20 teams and up to 160 places. Sign up now to avoid disappointment. Registration deadline closes 01 December 2022.

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[Deadline to register: 01 December 2022]

THE CHALLENGE

Interdisciplinary teams (max 8 people) are challenged to design, engineer, landscape, specify and cost a retrofit scheme to?EnerPHit?or AECB retrofit standard for an existing non-domestic timber frame building in Hereford.

#TDchallenge23 - The Brief

WHY ENTER?

• Become low carbon employable: Students are being hired directly as a result of participating in these design challenges, with this challenge teaching the practical skills called for by employers.
• Design to the highest industry standards: Learn how to?retrofit and extend an existing timber frame building to?EnerPHit?or AECB retrofit standards with bio-based and natural materials.
• Learn directly from leading experts: You will be learning directly from experienced leading professionals; architects, engineers, and more; from top companies in the Built Environment sector.?Participate in?free webinars?& workshops. Teams will gain access to a competition mentor.
• Win cash prizes: Walk away with skills and a bigger bank account.?Cash prizes are available to the top 4 placed teams decided in a live final at NMITE in front of a professional judging panel.
• Collaborate with your peers: Develop your skills in an environment which mirrors what you will be doing as a built environment professional by working in multidisciplinary teams.
• Be trained on integrated software: You will learn industry standard software including Trimble SketchUp Studio, DesignPH and PHPP, and the AECB Carbon Calculator to understand how to design a net zero home using modern technology.

Learn more about the design challenge here: https://bit.ly/TDchallenge23

The Passivhaus Trust (PHT) is delighted to support?the 2023 university challenge led by? Timber Development UK (TDUK), in partnership with? Built Environment - Smarter Transformation BE-ST,? NMITE (NMITE), Edinburgh Napier University (ENU), & the (AECB) Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB).