{"id":7895,"date":"2019-04-01T11:44:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T10:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=7895"},"modified":"2019-04-01T11:44:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T10:44:17","slug":"constructionarium-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/constructionarium-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Constructionarium: 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2019\/03\/Constructionarium-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7917\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2019\/03\/Constructionarium-2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>In June 2006 The Duke of Edinburgh put on a hard hat and boots to watch students building their own versions of engineering landmarks.<\/p>\n<p>The engineering students from Civil Engineering were taking part in Constructionarium, an annual event in which groups had just five days to tackle a challenging project, such as creating a seven metre high version of the world&#8217;s tallest vehicular bridge, the Millau viaduct in Southern France.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2019\/03\/Constructionarium-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-7916\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2019\/03\/Constructionarium-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The event was designed to give students hands-on experience of engineering in a realistic environment. The projects took place on a two hectare section of a Norfolk site which is used for training specialist construction trade workers such as scaffolders and steeplejacks. The site, in Bircham Newton, was owned by the National Construction College.<\/p>\n<p>Prince Philip visited on the students&#8217; last day and saw the projects in their final stages. He was given a tour of the different projects underway, and watched as students pulled a replica oil rig to the middle of a lake and stabilised it. The TV Studio (by then called Media Services) was on hand to capture the event.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Constructionarium 2006\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VenTKVMmELY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw April 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2006 The Duke of Edinburgh put on a hard hat and boots to watch students building their own versions of engineering landmarks. The TV Studio (by then called Media Services) was on hand to capture the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,80,81,82,279,390],"tags":[233,18452,89,18467],"class_list":["post-7895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-people","category-research","category-student-life","category-teaching","category-technology","tag-civil-engineering","tag-royal-family","tag-students","tag-tv-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7895"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7927,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7895\/revisions\/7927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}