Last month we had the opportunity to run two weeks of work experience with our funders Bristol City Council Strategic Partnership. This partnership of ARUP, Arcadis and Mott MacDonald, aids the delivery of new infrastructure, homes and regeneration across the city of Bristol.
We are very lucky to have such an engaged partnership with our funders, who opened their doors to the young people and worked with them through live briefs in engineering, project managing, finance and more.
During the visit to Mott MacDonald young people helped design new developments for a secondary school in Bristol. Each team were assigned a role for example: project manager, designer, finance officer and worked on the brief.
At Arcadis, young people learnt about the developments taking place in Castle Park and helped brainstorm new developments for the project.
Young people worked with ARUP to assess upcoming flood risks to the city and design flood defences around Bristol’s harbour, working within the real budget of the live project, considering social value, budget and environmental issues.
Our work wasn’t done with those visits as throughout the week young people also went on a photography expedition around the harbour, made mixed media projects at KWMC and took part in digital fabrication learning at a Maker City Making days at The Factory.
