APEC
The Architecture Planning Engineering and Construction Forum was set up in 2013 and aims to support both the Department of Land Economy and the Faculty of Architecture (the latter particularly needing help with outside teaching by practising architects).
Its inaugural event was an elegant and stimulating presentation in the Council Chamber of London City Hall by Spencer De Grey, Foster and Partners’ joint Head of Design who is also a visiting Professor at The University of Cambridge.
The APEC Forum has become one of the most active Forums and has established a series of annual events. The main one is the Planning Update afternoon conference hosted by Dentons which last year and this includes two Government spokesmen amongst a range of contributors.
APEC arranges a careers afternoon with the head of department at the school of architecture when we invite major practices to tell students about the career paths they offer. Last year two presentations were given by the students they recruited the previous year!
We ran two evening events hosted by Macquarie Bank looking at the future of the workplace and are following this in 2021 with a tour and a debate ‘Workplace III’ at 22 Bishopsgate hosted by Lipton Rogers.
APEC has arranged visits to the NW Cambridge site, the new extension to the Judge Business School and specialist talks about collaborative building contracts and tunnelling Crossrail under London amongst other things. We also staged a re-run of the Churchill College architectural competition 50 years on which was fully written up in the Architects’ Journal.
We also regularly sponsor the faculty’s amazing end of year show in London and its catalogue.
The APEC committee is well attended and hosted in London variously by engineers Price & Myers, lawyers Pinsent Masosns and surveyors Bidwells. New members are always welcome.
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