Our team recently hosted a careers day at a local school near our Waterloo & Queen Street project in Havering. Rollalong is providing temporary modular homes there to help local families.
The event let students explore different careers in modular construction and the construction sector as a whole. They also learned how our modular building projects like the one near their school come together.
The day began with an introduction to the local development and the temporary homes being built. This gave them useful background on what’s happening nearby and how modular construction can quickly create quality homes.
Staff from Rollalong, Wates, and D4S joined in for the whole day, leading interactive sessions to show what different jobs involve.
In the morning, students took part in a fun “Guess the Career” game. They asked yes-or-no questions to match team members with their jobs, which encouraged curiosity and problem-solving. The activity got everyone talking and helped students learn about different paths into construction, design, manufacturing, and other fields, while meeting professionals face-to-face.
The day also featured career workshops where students tried out different roles. In the structural engineering workshop, teams built paper structures to learn about engineering and teamwork. In the marketing workshop, students created a mock social media post to see how projects are shared with the public. In the Design Workshop, students drew home plans and learned about the basics of design and spatial planning.
These sessions showed that building homes takes more than just construction. It involves designers, engineers, marketers, sales teams, procurement, estimators, and many others working together.
Events like this are part of our promise to create social value with every project. They give young people a look at future career options and help us build stronger connections with the communities around our developments.
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18 Temporary Homes in Havering
Take a closer look at our temporary modular solution being installed on Waterloo and Queens Street in Havering.