ENU, Trimble and the University Design Challenge

Students and staff at Edinburgh Napier use the facilities provided by the Trimble Technology lab in the University Design Challenge set by Timber Development UK for the past six years.

2023

Edinburgh Napier was a sponsor for the TDUK (Timber Development UK) University Design Project on retrofit technologies. Interdisciplinary teams of individual students and 2022 graduates from UK Universities addressed the urgent need to reuse existing buildings by repurposing and retrofitting.

This short , produced as part of BE-ST Fest, introduced the partners and sets out the competition program details.

Read more about the University Design Challenge #TDChallenge23 at: 

    • 34 students
    • 23 Universities
    • Duration 6 months
    • Winner – “Hemphasize” Cardiff, Newcastle, Plymouth, Heriot-Watt, London Metropolitan, Cardiff
    • 2nd Place – “Applewood Community Centre” Uni of Arts London, Uni of Westminster Grad, Edinburgh Napier, Robert Gordon
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2022

ENU / Trimble / NMITE / Transforming Timber also supported TDUK in 2022.

    • 150 students
    • 57 Universities
    • Duration 6 months
    • Winner – “Structural timber used effectively and meeting the Passivhaus standard”, Alice Senior (University of Portsmouth), Malwina Bartoszewicz (麻豆社区), Johanna Schwarting (Swansea University), Kyle Henderson (Robert Gordon University), Daniela Lopez (University of Gloucestershire), Ali Uddin (University of Edinburgh), and Deepak Sadhwani (Cardiff University)