On-site projects
Learn how going on-site allows our students to gain real-world experience.
Our students use the great outdoors to experience how to effectively work within a team to communicate, lead, and build confidence by putting management theory into practice.
Each academic year contains at least a week of cross-cutting activities within the curriculum that expose our students to the way in which different disciplines approach and solve issues concerning the built environment. These challenges are based on real-life projects built in collaboration with industrial leaders.
This sociable and challenging environment away from the classroom allows our students to put the skills they have learnt into practice. This will help them gain a more rounded understanding of teamwork, setting them up for a successful future career working in multidisciplinary teams.
The professional bodies that accredit our courses have highlighted this collaborative teamwork training as a very positive and best-practice feature of our courses, offering an innovative and engaging learning experience to meet key intended transferable skills and learning outcomes.
Whenever a new graduate comes into whatever site they’re working on and they say they’re from Loughborough, there’s already an expectation that they’ve had a good grounding and that they are of a calibre that maybe other universities and institutions don’t have.