Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering

Elenor Naraidoo is a 3rd year MEng Civil Engineering student and the winner of the Women in Property’s 2020 South West Student Award. In this blog, Elenor shares her journey from the nomination stages of these awards to eventually being announced as a regional winner.

Our BSc Architecture student and poster competition winner Rebekah Ball talks about her two years of placements with an architecture studio in Manchester, the projects she worked on, how working from home affected her and the differences between her two placements.

Quarantine story is a blog written by one of our BEng Architecture Students, Colton Newbury, about his experience of starting his 3rd year placement during lockdown 2020.

During our studies in the MSc Environmental Design course we worked on a design project to build a sustainable Passive House standard school. Read about it and watch the video which shows our initial design and explains our sustainable design strategies.

Translucent paper. Remnants of history. Backtracking one’s journey. In this 14th issue of PaperspACE we follow trails through the city, highlighting often forgotten signposts. We explore the marks left behind by those before us and their continued influence in the present.

Author: Muskan Kheria - Architecture undergraduate, Muskan Kheria, spent her placement working abroad in RMJM, a leading Architecture firm in Dubai. Despite spending a majority of her placement working from home, Muskan shared the invaluable experience that she has gained before...

Author: Maria Juszczyk - I’m a second year Bsc Architecture student, currently undertaking my first thin sandwich placement at Stride Treglown in Bath. As a company, Stride Treglown is actively engaging with our University, through participating in the RIBA Student...