Team builds the foundations of better living
HBJ Gateley construction partner Frazer Wardhaugh has joined a delegation of 15 Scottish housing and community professionals on a housebuilding mission to Malawi, south-east Africa.
The delegation raised more than £35,000 to fund their venture, where they teamed up with the charity Habitat for Humanity to develop accommodation for carers of orphaned and vulnerable children.
Wardhaugh said: “Housing is of critical importance in providing safety and security for those in already exceptionally vulnerable situations. My team members and I are all driven by the desire to make a difference and help those who need it most.”
Life expectancy, infant mortality and incidence of HIV/AIDS is high in Malawi, with many orphans brought up by extended family members who already struggle to feed their own children.
See www.habitatforhumanity.org.uk
Graduates pitch their skills
Surveyors from some of the industry’s biggest firms have brought their football skills to bear against students from the industry’s biggest feeder universities.
The five-a-side tournament was staged on 29 April by Jones Lang LaSalle to engage with aspiring real estate graduates (and footballers).
The site of the action was Wembley Powerleague, where teams from JLL, BNP Paribas Real Estate, CBRE, DTZ, Gerald Eve, GVA, Knight Frank and Savills battled against students from Nottingham Trent, Cass Business School (City), Kingston, Oxford Brookes, Henley Business School (Reading), Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam and Bristol UWE.
Nottingham clinched a 4-2 victory against BNP PRE in the final. Alan Campbell, London 2012 single sculls bronze medallist, presented the trophy. While Macdonald and Company offered the winners a tour of Wembley Stadium as a prize.
The Oxford Brookes Real Estate Student Society quite literally had a ball last month, when more than 200 students, alumni, lecturers and industry professionals descended in their finery on Oxford’s Macdonald Randolph Hotel for an annual networking event and soirée.
The OBRESS Ball, jointly sponsored by Savills, Symm, Leadbitter and Premier Lettings, had all the features of a sophisticated knees-up before the nocturnally-trained pushed on to a private after-party at Oxford’s Varsity Club.
This was the flagship event for OBRESS, which carries out sporting, academic and charitable events for the Evision Foundation.
Scholarship
Building and Civil Engineering’s Charitable Trust and RI Beck Trust have created an annual scholarship to support training in construction.
The partnership represents the joining up of two bodies – including Mowlem, sold in 2006 – whose work is entrenched in the British construction industry.
The scholarship will be known as the Mowlem Award for Training.
CBRE in fashion as Bowie draws in the crowds
Retail’s finest (and most avid Bowie fans) gathered at CBRE’s annual retail party at the Victoria & Albert Museum last Wednesday.
The event, first launched by Malcolm Dalgleish through his eponymous retail agency in 1990 before he sold to CBRE, was attended by more than 800 clients and colleagues. Guests included Mishcon de Reya’s Susan Freeman, Next’s Andrew Varley and Marks & Spencer’s Clem Constantine.
As well as the plates of canapés and endless glasses of champagne, guests were this year treated to free entry into the sold-out David Bowie Is exhibition, which features more than 300 objects owned by the pop sensation, including handwritten lyrics, original costumes, fashion, photography, film, music videos, set designs and instruments.
