It gives us great pleasure to announce that two of our LSBU teams, who went through the Final CIOB Bright Futures Challenge competition won First place (massive congratulations to Lauren, Ben, Luke - who also won the first place last year, and Royden - who joined forces with them this year) and Fourth Place (massive congratulations to Christian, Livia and Evgenii)! The final event took place at the Stamford Bridge stadium (Chelsea’s football ground). They will be competing again next year in the final for the CIOB Bright Futures Challenge competition tonight. Some of the photos can be found here ttps://www.instagram.com/p/B9nErkAnedM/?igshid=1lkkz01ed03vj  

Out of the seven students participating from LSBU, five are from the Architectural Technology Course, one graduated from Architectural Engineering and is now doing the MSc Structural Engineering course and one is from the Building Surveying course.  

Congratulations to the two teams! The School of BEA is extremely proud of the stude

Jennifer Hardi MCIAT, Programme Director for the BSc (Hons) Architectural Technology and Architectural Engineering degrees at London South Bank University and the Principal Investigator for a Royal Academy of Engineering funded project recently teamed up with Dr Andry Widyowijatnoko, an architect, bamboo expert, researcher and academic from Institute Technology of Bandung (ITB) in Indonesia. They carried out a bamboo tensegrity workshop at London South Bank University in March 2019 as a continuation of a research project.

The three day workshop attracted positive collaboration from academics and students from various disciplines. Tensegrity is an abbreviation of tensile and integrity. The structure consists of compression members connected with wires or strings until it forms a balance and stability without connecting each of the compression members. It creates a floating compression. In the case of bamboo as tensegrity material, the tension member of bamboo tensegrity is in the form o