Westleigh Building for the Future
Posted by Dave ToynApril 9th, 2009
Client Westleigh Developments Ltd recently welcomed local students to its headquarters in Whetstone for an event that forms part of the Leicestershire Education Business Company’s (LEBC) Excellence in Enterprise Awards 2009.
Entitled ‘Building for the Future’, the event saw teams of six pupils from De Lisle Catholic School in Loughborough, Countesthorpe Community College in Countesthorpe and John Cleveland College in Hinckley undertake a number of construction-based challenges, to demonstrate the variety of skills required to work in the building industry.
Participants from each school were able to watch and learn new skills from Westleigh employees during the morning, by the end of which all teams had a member trained in the fields of surveying, estimating, brick-laying, health and safety and two educated in timber construction. These skills were then put in to practice with each team challenged to construct a timber-frame scaled down house using materials from Westframe, the timber-frame division of Westleigh Developments.
Pupils from Countesthorpe College (orange), John Cleveland (green) and De Lisle Catholic College (blue) at Westleigh
