Are you shining a light on your Social Impact?
Our invaluable ‘Adopt A School’ partners are doing amazing work with DEC students and teachers.
They’re maximising every DEC opportunity by recording evidence for existing contracts and future bids
by completing our DEC activity logs.
We feed it all back to them the the end of each academic year, so they have it all in one place.
Industry supporters of Hautlieu School in Jersey are completing activity logs every time they work with their adopted DEC Centre.
It’s highlighting their HUGE impact while working on Jersey’s “Our Hospital” project.
Take a look!
Company: Soundings
Volunteer: Steve McAdam, Engagement Consultant
Year Group: DEC Level 3, Year 12 – 7 students
Activity:
A talk about communications and engagement in the construction industry with reference to a range of Soundings projects.
How did it go?
It was very enjoyable and the students, though engaged ‘digitally’, were involved, alert and a pleasure to enter into discussion with at the follow-on Q&A session.
Company: Rok Ltd
Volunteer: Richard De Gruchy, Director
Year Group: DEC Level 2, Year 10 – 12 students
Activity:
I have undertaken sessions with Hautlieu for Level 2 and 3 focusing on
Client Needs, Functional Requirements, Site Visits and Practical Surveying to Sustainability.
Resources: ‘Crib sheets’; and informed classroom exercises
How did it go?
Awesome; great teacher and both year groups are truly engaged.
Company: Arup
Volunteer: Ryan Blakeley, Sustainability Consultant
Year Group: DEC Level 2 & 3, Year 10 & 12
Activity:
Presentation and discussion around sustainability strategies, their purpose, what form they may take and what makes a good sustainability strategy.
Resources: Recording of presentation
How did it go?
We have a schedule of future engagements. It was great to have some much engagement from the pupils (even via MS Teams), both related to project work as well as interest in my role.
It was also great to receive interest in, and share my experiences about, my own career path.
Company: Morris Architects
Volunteer: Peter Garforth, Director & Project Architect
Year Group: DEC Level 2, Year 7 – 12 students
Activity:
Site Analysis, Schedule of Accommodation, Spatial relationship, Planning, Building Bye-Laws, Feasibility Report.”
Resources: 3D model of Victoria College
How did it go?
Student session are very rewarding experiences with pupils reacting to key topics discussed. An example of the pieces of work submitted after the session was outstanding and provided an impressive understanding of the site context, spatial relationship of the internal and external spaces.
Company: Our Hospital
Volunteer: Jessica Hardwick, Project Manager
Year Group: DEC Level 3, Year 12 – 7 students
Activity:
Students presented their draft design briefs for their specific construction project. I provided verbal and written critical feedback to each of the students.
Resources: Each of the students had prepared their draft design briefs.
How did it go?
Students did a great job of presenting their briefs, with one student creating cue cards to assist. All feedback was provided during the lesson, with key advice for future assignments being to really consider all elements of the task and ensure all are covered in any response.
“So useful to have students present to a real client and get first-hand constructive feedback.
Myself, students and Jessica completed an online questionnaire with scores and www/ebi boxes for each presentation. This was easily collated into a spreadsheet and shared with students for them to demonstrate receiving and then reacting to feedback.
The recording of the session on Teams is an excellent opportunity for them to screenshot and evidence the feedback/presentation process in their portfolios.”
Simon Forestiero, DEC Teacher
Company: Skills Jersey
Volunteer: Dave Roworth, Senior Advisor, Digital and Innovation
Year Group: DEC Level 2, Year 10 – 7 students
Activity:
Assessment of short presentations
How did it go?
Very impressive and inspiring, students are clearly benefiting from the range of expert input from our Industry Adopter organisations.
Company: TNG Consulting Engineers
Volunteer: Russell Pitman, Chartered Engineer, Managing Director
Year Group: DEC Level 2, Year 10 – 10 students
Activity:
Presented to the class on embodied and on demand energy, passive and active measure to save and generate energy, how the internal environment needs to be suitable for the inhabitants.
Resources: PowerPoint.
How did it go?
I had a great time, the students were very attentive, interactive and from the feedback given very intuitive, I did enjoy the experience.
Company: Arup
Volunteer: Steven Burrows, Senior Engineer Building Physics
Year Group: DEC Level 3, Year 12 – 5 students
Activity:
Brief introduction to passive design measures, approaches to save energy in the context of buildings. I spoke about building fabric, thermal mass, energy, comfort and thermal modelling. I have provided a legacy presentation that covers many of the topics we discussed during the session.
How did it go?
The session went well, I believe, although we had a bit of crossed wires in communication so we relied on existing presentation material and delivered things on the fly.
Company: Llewelyn Davies
Volunteer: Leonardo Ali, Architect
Year Group: DEC Level 3, Year 12 – 7 students
Activity:
Crit panel to students’ concept design work.
Resources: Online reports on each student’s concept design & presentation.
How did it go?
Good practice at verbal presentation for the students, quite impressed. General expectation would have been for more graphic content, but understand they have limited time on this area.
Company: Mace
Volunteer: Fredel Gibson, Associate Director (Project Management)
Year Group: DEC Level 2, Year 10 – 9 students
Activity:
Interactive presentation on project planning and human resources.
How did it go?
I enjoyed the session, it was good to see some of the students come up with contributions and questions.
