The School of BEA would like to congratulate our recent top Architectural Technology graduates who have been awarded the prestigious CIAT Outstanding Graduating Award and CIOB Certificate of Excellence (and prize money) for their amazing achievement.

The two graduating students with the awards are as follows:

• Robert Marsh - CIAT Outstanding Graduating Student Award
• Anthony Withall - CIOB Certificate for Excellence

The graduates have worked very hard throughout the course and were extremely dedicated students. It's been a pleasure to work with the students and we are very proud of their achievements, especially during such a challenging time.

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

The National Student Survey (NSS) results for 2019 are in, and we’re elated! We already had a feeling this was the case, but it’s official, we have some very satisfied students!

• BEng (Hons) Civil Engineering has been ranked 1^st for overall student satisfaction in London and ranked 2^nd for overall student satisfaction in the UK.
• BSc (Hons) Architectural Technology achieved 100% overall student satisfaction.
• Overall student satisfaction doubled for BSc (Hons) Quantity Surveying (80%).
• In fact, every course in our School saw an increase in overall student satisfaction.
• In 2018, the average for teaching on our courses was 78%, this year it has jumped to 86%.
• LSBU’s Students’ Union also has reason to celebrate as it now joins the top 3 university students’ unions in London.

The School would like to thank all of the Course Directors and Module Leaders; we’re so pleased that they’re finally seeing the results of their hard work! Thanks  to Dr Haydar Aygun and our NSS sub-committee whose tirel

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

Lectures and exams may be over, but these students are preparing for the Autodesk University London 2019 Student Competition being held on Tuesday 18th June and Wednesday 19th June 2019. Using our BIM Centre, these Architectural Technology students are knuckling down to master Autodesk. We're wishing them the best of luck!

For those not in the know, Autodesk software is primarily used by architects, engineers and structural designers to design, draft and model buildings and other structures. Autodesk software has been used in many fields, and on projects from the One World Trade Center to Tesla electric cars.

Greater London Regional Councillor Richard Briffa MCIAT presented the Greater London Regional medals to BSc (Hons) Architectural Technology students at the Final Year Exhibition of student work at the University. The event was hosted by Jennifer Hardi, course director for BSc (Hons) Architectural Technology.

The winners are...

Gold Medal: Karol Krol

Silver Medal: Jag Brard

Joint Bronze Medal: Royden Gilbert and Ben Wells

Highly Commended (AspirATion Award): Sandeep Saddal

Highly Commended 2nd Year Students: Ben Clark, Lauren Webster and Like Stanley