Teenagers known as on to layout ‘home for everyone’ in construction competitiveness

Teens Across Ireland are becoming named on to layout ‘a dwelling for everyone’ as part of a national competition aimed at attracting young men and women into the building market.

The competitiveness released by the Construction Business Federation (CIF) is aimed at senior cycle pupils and is a crew-based mostly job. Students are asked to get the job done alongside one another to design and style a dwelling that allows fix problems these as local climate improve and the housing crisis as properly as inclusivity.

The submitted styles will need to have to be eco-welcoming, very affordable and suitable for the two aged people today and those with physical disabilities.

The competitors will operate till 1 March with judging using place until eventually mid-March. The winning crew will have their design and style rendered into a 3-dimensional model, so they can ‘walk’ by the home in March 2021.

In addition, the successful school will get higher conclusion measuring tools, a laser stage and a masterclass in the use of the gear. The successful crew members will have the solution of taking a CIF scholarship or access to its apprenticeship programme if they do determine to acquire a building-linked career route in their future.

Research by CIF located additional than 63% of mom and dad would be content for their little ones to go after a vocation in building and above 50 % think the sector provides occupations for equally adult men and women.

CIF’s director common, Tom Parlon mentioned the pandemic has shown how solid a vocation in development is, as it was equipped to run during the most tricky Covid-19 period. 

“Increasingly, our employees are travelling internationally, working with engineering instead of a hammer, and are functioning as part of numerous, multi-disciplinary teams,” he mentioned.

“Salaries and wages are increasing all the time and there is a obvious job route from setting up internet site to boardroom for all those who want it.”

Parlon said the level of competition is a celebration of the “creativity and intent that’s in some cases taken for granted” in the construction market.

“We’re marrying young people’s problems about homelessness, local weather alter and inclusivity with development to show that a profession can make a variation and have a true intent.”

Any individual wishing to enter the level of competition can do so in this article.