Our history
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1990
At a meeting at the ICE, Richard Rooley identifies the cracks in our industry and has an idea…. -
1992
The first “Build-a-Building” Competition takes place, enabled by the ICE. -
1994
ARUP field a team for the first time. Over the next decade, more than 120 competitors from Arup will take part in this competition. -
1995
Max Fordham OBE joins the panel of judges, our first to have a royal honour but not the last! Frank Duffy is awarded a CBE in 1997, and Richard Saxon CBE judges in 2007. -
1998
Team Synergy win the competition: Arup’s first winning team! This is our most popular team name, with five teams over the years choosing this moniker. It doesn’t always work out though: it wasn’t until 2010 that Synergy won again, this time a team from Wates. -
2002
The 100th ICE member takes part in Teambuild. This number will more than double by the end of the decade, and keep increasing; more ICE members have taken part in Teambuild than from any other institution. -
2005
For the first, but certainly not the last time, the majority of the winning team are female! Well done Buro Happold. -
2009
The first Teambuild Pub Quiz: now an annual event. Generously hosted by the winners from 2008, BDP London. -
2010
“The Tender Process from Hell”: we offer the first of a series of seminars on legal and contractual aspects of the industry, in partnership with our friends at Mayer Brown LLP. -
2011
The Teambuild Association becomes a registered UK Charity, with the aims of “the advancement of education in the construction industry”. -
2012
Teambuild goes global, presenting a paper on the values of interdisciplinary construction at the ACSA conference of US Architectural Educators in Barcelona. -
2013
Support from the Commercial Education Trust allows us to hire our first Teambuild Fellow: a six-month, paid, fractional position to help the organsiers and also provide a suitable supplementary income for an individual in construction education or training. -
2014
Our first-ever Student Competition takes place, at Heriot-Watt University and the University of Edinburgh, with an exciting site visit added for the students, courtesy of Balfour Beatty. -
2015
Working 'in-house' to improve productivity: we run our first event for WSP|PB as collaborative training for their grad+2 intake
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