The Built Environment of the Future as viewed by secondary school students

Posted on: 19 August, 2019

A key theme of our centenary year is ‘The Built Environment of the Future’. To support debate on the topic, we ran a competition for secondary school students to get creative and design a ‘building of the future’ encompassing appropriate sustainability features. Here’s a selection of their efforts from the many submissions we received, including the winning designs…

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