Skipping to build classrooms in Uganda

Two young Gifford engineers, Hayley Maxwell and Jessica Robinson, managed to skip their way round Hyde Park, Green Park and Regent’s Park in Central London in aid of funding a trip to Uganda to oversee the building of new rural classrooms to their award-winning design.

Hayley and Jessica are part of a five-strong team of young engineers at independent engineering and environmental consultant Gifford whose innovative rural classroom is designed to be built easily by local communities but still provide a comfortable, stimulating and flexible learning environment within a sustainable structure.

Winning an international architectural competition means their blueprint will form the basis of a schools building programme in Uganda. The design was done in their own time and they need to raise funds for their trip which is part sponsored by Gifford and by Specialist Construction Products, distributors of specialist, leading brand construction materials.