George Blumberg is a Senior Lecturer in the School of the Built Environment, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students in construction. George is often seen out with his camera and sent in some photos from a number of his recent visits involving our students. Click on the blue links for more information on each project. And thanks for sharing these George!
AT The Bus offers a school-based programme of art as therapy to support the education, health and wellbeing of children and young people aged 7-18 in Oxfordshire.
AT The Bus - inside
Site visit to the Life and Mind Building (LaMB) - the largest building project undertaken by the University of Oxford
Wates - the contractor has kindly allowed access to the project for construction students from Oxford Brookes - CM student Toby Archard (above) recently visited the site...
OBU student Hugo Loxton-Barnard talking with senior site manager and Oxford Polytechnic graduate Alec Carr during construction of a concrete frame building with a CLT internal structure.
As part of the Oxford Brookes Creative Industries Day (5 May 2016), we invited some local schools to build (reinforce) and test some bridges in our Technology Lab. First of all the brief:
Bracing Collapses
Task: A basic structure will be provided to bridge a gap of 1080 mm; it will be required to support 5 kg in stable equilibrium but will be tested to destruction. Each group will be able to spend 30 minutes making the basic structure (which will be far too weak as provided) stronger. The basic structures will be made from corrugated plastic sheeting - in essence a an upside down trough 140 mm wide with each side 80mm deep, bent downwards, and about 4 rectangular pieces of corrugated plastic glued into position to maintain the shape.
Materials/tools will be provided to strengthen the basic shape: more of the corrugated plastic material; polythene sheeting for binding and to provide any tension elements needed for the structure and glue guns/sticks.
Testing will be carried out under the supervision of staff; each structure will be weighed and tested; the winning structure will be the one which takes the maximum load supported - minus the weight gain of the structure over and above the weight of the basic structure.
The teams were from The Oxford Academy, Gosford Hill School, Oxford Spires Academy, Cheney School and The Bicester School.
Next some photos of the reinforcement work (followed by the videos of collapsing bridges, so keep reading)...
