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3. Measure the handle centres (PZ)
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Could Minecraft help
fill construction
skills gap?
Experts say the video game Minecraft could be the key to
attracting more young people to the construction industry.
A new competition
has demonstrated the
enormous potential the
computer gamecould
have for the future of
the construction industry.
The Chartered Institute
of Building (CIOB) held a
contest to design a building
on the popular game.
There were 77 entrants
and the winner was Guy
MacDonnell, who works for
Interserve Construction as a
quantity surveyor.
He built the CCTV Tower
in Beijing, China, in painstaking detail inside and
out and his work received
more than half of the votes
(52.9%) that were cast
online.
To mark International
Construction Management
Day (March 9), the CIOB
challenged people to recreate either the CCTV Tower,
the Shard in London, Kuala
Lumpur’s Petronas Towers,
the Sydney Opera House or
the Houses of Parliament in
London within Minecraft.
MacDonnell has been
playing around with the
game ever since it was first
available.
Since it began, millions of
people of all ages have used
it to create their own build-
ings, but it also allows them
to explore, gather resources
and fight rivals online.
MacDonnell chose the
CCTV Tower as he felt it
was the best option in terms
of using Minecraft to create
an “elaborate interior”. He
used the building’s plans
and elevations to achieve
his extremely detailed representation.
But Minecraft is not just
about recreating digitally what has already been
made as it gives users even
greater freedom to create
something new, as unlike
Arup, the company that
built the CCTV Tower, they
are not restricted by gravity,
MacDonnell says.
The CIOB and the Construction Industry Training
Board (CITB) are keen to
attract more young people
to learn construction skills.
It is thought that the huge
interest in Minecraft could
be a way of getting more of
them interested in careers in
the industry.
MacDonnell used his
considerable experience to
recreate the building but
he says anyone can use
the game, experiment and
develop creations of their
own.
Source: www.citb.co.uk
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