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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