WORKSHOPS

Class of Your Own Limited provides a series of workshops entitled "A Class of Your Own" to introduce secondary school students to the roles and responsibilities of an 'environmentally friendly' design company.

Construction is not just about laying bricks and plastering. In line with the Diploma in Construction and the Built Environment, we wanted to inspire students to consider a professional future in the construction industry by introducing them to the 'real life' personnel who deliver the workshops with first-hand knowledge and experience.

Secondary School students become Managing Directors, Marketing Managers, Architects, Surveyors and Landscape Designers, - all investigating ideas which would conclude in the design of a single stand alone ‘Environmental Resource Centre’ - a classroom sized building with an external environment to complement that design. This Resource would be the most sustainably constructed design possible and would provide a facility to the school and its wider community where environmental and sustainability issues can be taught in line with cross curricular requirements, and the community would be encouraged and inspired to address and adopt green issues and lifestyles.

Ultimately, the school can opt to actually build such a resource with us and students would have a very active involvement taking on further roles of ‘real life’ professionals, not only as introduced in our first competitive workshop , but also as project managers, quantity surveyors, finance managers etc. They will work side by side with us to take a design right through to the finished build stage, adopting an ownership role throughout. When the building is finished, it really does become ‘a class of their own’.

Schools will soon be able to create their own ‘virtual building’ by using Class Of Your Own workshop software, currently under development with the assistance of Liverpool John Moores University, and due to be released later in the academic year.