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Scholarships and Awards

construction industry sustainability professionals and then pulled these results together to form a
set of practical recommendations and areas for further study.
After Vera Bukachi was awarded her share of the WCC and BRE International Research Award in
2015, she travelled to Nairobi to carry out her main fieldwork and in July attended the Water,
Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) conference at Loughborough where she participated in
the sessions associated with her research project. Later in the autumn of 2015 she travelled to
Stockholm to attend the World Water Week conference. As Vera needed to write up and complete
her PhD thesis in the following 6-9 months and simultaneously take up full time employment with
Ove Arup, it was jointly agreed with BRE to postpone the delivery of her final report. Her
presentation will thus take place later in the year.
The International Research Award was shared with Buro Happold (Richard Look and Caroline Field).
They published their highly professional 70-page report into a “Resilience Insight into 12 Cities” in
February 2016. It addressed the resilience of developing cities to withstand a broad spectrum of
shocks and stresses with the declared objective of assisting in-built resilience design; gaining an
holistic understanding of the components of such resilience and prioritizing and measuring the
performance of resilience policies. The model created by Buro Happold was unique in that, unlike
many other assessment tools, the methodology was risk-based and took long-term trends into
account. The full paper is available on the WCC website.
It is hoped that the Worshipful Company of Constructors, the BRE and Buro Happold will be able to
stage an event in the next few months to congratulate Richard and Caroline and allow them to
present their paper.
Scholars 2016/17
SIDS Scholars
The SIDS Scholars are Andrew Thompson of Lakeside and Liz Walters of Sir Robert McAlpine.
Andrew is progressing well on his scholarship which is focusing on “increasing Primary School places
and improving school buildings in the South East with innovative designs”. Liz is also proceeding
well with her Scholarship which is focussing on “Construction as a Career Choice for Young People”.
Sustainability Scholars
There are 2 Sustainability scholars for 2016/17, Holly Gregory and Anthony Hull.
Holly Gregory works for Atkins and is writing a paper on “Whole Life Carbon Assessment on Building
Projects, a Review and Recommendations”.
Anthony Hull works for Network Rail and is writing a paper on “Identifying and overcoming barriers
to integrating sustainability into management of infrastructure projects.
Royal Charter International Research Award
The Company are now looking at the applications for the 2017 International Research Award and it is
expected that interviews for selected candidates will take place in December.

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