Building Growth South West is delivering Workforce for the Future on behalf of the West of England Combined Authority in collaboration with MOBIE and the Bristol Housing Festival. The project will support traditional construction SMEs across the West of England – helping to bridge the skills gap and futureproof the local workforce.
Read MoreMOBIE Founder George Clarke has announced the winners of the Gravity young persons’ design challenge for schools in and around Bridgwater, Somerset. See the winning designs here!
Read MoreThe Mayor of London and MOBIE Founder George Clarke have launched a design challenge for young Londoners to create homes and places of the future. School, college and university students are invited to produce inspiring designs for future homes, places and spaces in the Royal Docks, East London - Design Future London
Read MoreSunderland City Council, Education Partnership North East and MOBIE have secured funding from the Government’s Levelling Up Fund that will see the development of a Housing Innovation and Construction Skills Academy that will educate, train and upskill the people of Sunderland to create innovative factory-built new homes.
Read MoreMark Southgate, CEO of MOBIE, spoke on a panel about “What will the workforce of tomorrow look like?” at a COP26 Gloucestershire conference hosted by the Active Building Centre. In this article he sets out why young people must be at the forefront of our efforts to revolutionise the built environment.
Read MoreAre your school or college students in London interested in designing a beautiful, affordable and sustainable community for future living for Londoners? The Mayor of London is partnering with MOBIE to launch a design challenge for young Londoners this Autumn.
Read MoreThe School of Architecture and Built Environment at the University of Wolverhampton and MOBIE have joined forces to deliver an online distance learning MSc in Offsite Housing Construction.
Read MoreMOBIE's CEO Mark Southgate sets out the challenges the construction industry must face with Make the Future Yours, a magazine to enlighten and inspire young people about the opportunities open to them and raises their aspirations.
Read MoreThe UK needs bold, ambitious action if it is to tackle its housing crisis head-on. MOBIE Founder George Clarke speaks to Big Issue about what he would do if he was in charge of housing policy.
Read MoreWe welcome a blog post by Jessica Rayif-Pearson, a runner up in our Home of 2030 Young Persons’ Design Challenge. In her post, Jessica tells us how MOBIE has helped inspire her career path and offers words of encouragement to others pursuing a career in homebuilding.
Read MoreThe winners of the Riverside Sunderland University Design Challenge have been announced following an incredibly competitive six-month event. From a group of more than 300 students from 39 universities and 27 teams, the winners of were chosen following a live event where students presented their projects to a panel of expert judges.
Read MoreEight entries to the Riverside Sunderland University Design Challenge (#RSUDC21) have been shortlisted for a live judging event on Wednesday 30 June 2021.
Read MoreMOBIE’s CEO Mark Southgate discusses the passion and creativity young people showed for protecting the environment in our recent Home of 2030 Young Persons’ Challenge.
Read MoreProtecting the environment is the focus of young people’s home designs as MOBIE launches a report featuring amazing future home designs from the Home of 2030 Young Persons’ Design Challenge on World Environment Day.
George drops in on our MOBIE students from Teesside University’s MIMA School of Art & Design that have been working on a multi-disciplinary challenge preparing home designs and a masterplan for our Riverside Sunderland Design Challenge set with TRADA.
Read MoreOur BA (Hons) Design for Future Living course at BCU aims to develop innovative design thinking and asks students to question how we live now and how we might live in the future. Zoe Culverhouse, a first year student, shares her experience of the course so far and why she chose to study at BCU.
Read MoreMOBIE is teaming up with Gravity and Bounce Forward to launch a design competition that aims to encourage local youngsters to get involved with the project to create the UK’s first smart campus and community.
Read MoreMOBIE Chief Executive, Mark Southgate, recently appeared on Have We Got Planning News For You to talk about MOBIE’s impact and ambitions. Have We Got Planning News for You is a light-hearted review of the week's latest developments by five barristers from across the Planning Bar.
Read MoreRachael Milliner, architectural intern and winner of Home of 2030 young persons design challenge explains why today’s social, environmental, and economic challenges should be balanced by aiming towards net zero and more socially conscious housing.
Read MoreMobile launches a national challenge for young people in Scotland to design an extension to the Resource Efficient House in Glasgow. The challenge is being run by the City of Glasgow College, the Energy Skills Partnership (ESP) and MOBIE. The challenge will inspire the next generation of home designers, makers and innovators.
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