A team of four final-year students studying at a university in New Zealand have won the Chartered Institute of Building’s (CIOB) Global Student Challenge competition.
The members of the winning team, called Wonders, are studying for a Bachelor of Construction degree at Massey University’s School of Built Environment in Auckland, New Zealand.
Wonders has received £2,000 in prize money, with the award collected virtually due to the worldwide covid-19 pandemic.
CIOB’s annual Global Student Challenge, which is open to full-time students, is a test of construction industry know-how, taking place in stages over a number of months. The competition provides a realistic simulation where teams, made up of three or four people, act as a board of directors running their own company.
More than 35 international teams entered this year’s competition before the top six best performing competitors were chosen to go through to the final.
The other finalists were:
- Harsa Bayanaka – University of Indonesia
- CQUNB – Chongqing University
- Greenwich Construction – University of Greenwich
- Eco Advance – Taylor’s University
- Welly Construction – Wellington Institute of Technology
Mike Foy, president of CIOB, said: “This is a challenge not for the faint hearted. Our competition has pushed the competitors’ strategic, financial and management skills to the limit. As students, they will now have a greater sense of what it’s like to work in a construction company making high-level decisions. I have no doubt that all our finalists will be able to reach that level when they leave university.”
Entry for the 2022 challenge will open later this year. Find out more about Global Student Challenge: http://gsc.ciob.org
