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The Future of Our Industry

2018 Student House Design Competition

In the next decade, it is predicted that the building industry in Canada will need to hire over 100,000 new skilled workers. A summary from BuiltForce Canada points out how important it is to promote careers in our industry. In Alberta alone, in the next 10 years, 16,900 people are expected to retire and 14,700 new entrants are expected, leaving us with 4,600 vacant jobs.

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BILD Calgary Region promotes industry career awareness through our Student Membership and through our annual Student House Design Competition. The goal of both of these initiatives is to promote, identify, and provide experience to help students define career opportunities to ensure the long-term success of our industry.

The Student House Design Competition, now celebrating its 40^th anniversary, has been so successful in supporting high-school and post-secondary students it is now part of the

curriculum for many schools, including SAIT.

The competition provides support and opportunities for students who are interested in a career in the

industry by awakening their creativity in design, encouraging their innovation through scholarships and rewarding top competitors with a total of $8,000 to further their education in the fields of building and design.

The competition wouldn’t be possible without the dedicated, knowledgeable association judges, not only creating the criteria but critiquing the submissions. Thank-you to those judges, some of the most accomplished architects and designers in the Calgary building industry.

Please join us on May 15, to meet and honour the future of our industry at our Volunteer Recognition and Student House Design Awards dinner.

High School Winners – the high school competition is divided into three different levels, depending on

various degrees of input required.

Level 1                  Sam Mazzei                       1^st Place                Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School

Level 1                  Emily Dootka                    2^nd Place               Ernest Manning High School

Level 2                  Ethan Sexton                    1^st Place                Ernest Manning High School

Level 2                  Matthew McConnell       2^nd Place              Ernest Manning High School

Level 2                  Kate Coninx                       3^rd Place              Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School

Level 3                  Bosco Zhi                            1^st Place               Ernest Manning High School

Level 3                  Braedyn Hoople                2^nd Place             Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School

Level 3                  Anna Balabanova             3^rd Place              Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School

Level 3                  Tara Glisic                            4^th Place             Dr. E.P. Scarlett High School

SAIT Winners

5^th Place               Julia Porter

4^th Place               Kaylee Taylor

3^rd Place               Juliana MacGregor

2^nd Place              Diane Mottl

1^st Place                Chris Audibert

Thank you to all of the students who put in a tremendous amount of creative effort.

Another huge thanks to the judges, many whom have been judging the competition for many years. Combined they spend over 160 hours judging more than 250 entries and are essential to the process.

BILD Calgary Region is proud to support such promising youth as we look forward to the future of the industry. There is always room for new, creative and innovative ideas – and as the competition proved, today’s talented youth are already demonstrating immense skills and accomplishments.