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Arch Jacquiann Lawton and Arch Garfield Wood

accompanied them. Head of School Arch Dr Patricia

Green joined the group for a part of the time. The

students also visited the Instituto de Arquitectura

Tropical of Costa Rican Arch Bruno Stagno. The

Caribbean School of Architecture collaborated with

four entities, the School of Architecture --Escuela de

Arquitectura, Universidad de Costa Rica; Ministerio de

Cultural y Juventud; La Comisión Nacional de Patrimoni

Historico de Costa Rica; and Costa Rica ICOMOS.

AS4 Local Study Tour 2015

Annotto Bay, St Mary in Jamaica between February 1st

and 15th 2015

Eleven students from Year 4 of the Undergraduate

Programme participated in the Jamaica AS4 Study Tour

component in the town of Annotto Bay, St Mary between

February 1st and 15th 2015. This enhanced pre-requisite

teaching and learning methods for observing a city and

drawing these observations in ways that communicate

the spatiality of urban form. The broad aims were to

identify the urban elements of a rural town, document

the unique

q u a l i t i e s

o f

i t s

architecture,

and reflect

o n

t he

development

needs of the

town given

its physical

a t t r i bu t es .

Studio Tutors

Arch Robert

Fuller, Arch

Brian Bernal,

Arch Desmond Hayle, and landscape architect Mark

Martin accompanied this tour. The Caribbean School

of Architecture worked with the wider Community of

Annotto Bay especially the Annotto Bay Community

Development and Environment Association in

collaboration with the St Mary Parish Council, also

the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency

Management (ODPEM).

MAI Study Tour 2015:

Old Havana and its Fortification System, Cuba, April

10th - 24th 2015

Three graduate students in the first year of the Masters

Programme visited the World heritage site of Old

Havana and its Fortification System in Cuba from April

10th to 24th 2015 to study the city with reference to

climate, assemblage and varying contexts to include

historical, social, economic, political and cultural, while

attempting to unravel the interactions between the

city and how its inhabitants live, work and play. Studio

Tutors, Arch Cheryl Pouchet and Arch Christoper

Wymm-Stone, accompanied them at varying times.

For this, the CSA collaborated with three institutions,

Colegio Universitario de San Gerónimo, Habana Vieja;

Office of the City Historian of Havana; and Cuba

ICOMOS.

School of Building and Land Management

MSc Built Environment

The MSc. BE candidates went on a four-island (Antigua,

Montserrat, Dominica, Barbados) tour during the period

May 4 – 17, 2014. The tour of Barbados culminated

with a presentation by students and lecturer, Jacqueline

Douglas-Brown at the Caribbean Urban Forum (CUF).

Presentation Topic - Towards Safe Placemaking:

Demonstrating the Use of Urban Design Elements to

Enhance Safety in a University Town, Papine, Jamaica.

Surveying Equipment Donation

The student-led Land Surveying Club, UTech, Jamaica

made a generous donation of three automatic levels

and three levelling staves to the Faculty of the Built

Environment, UTech, Jamaica. This valuable gift was

the brain-child of the faculty representative for the club,

Mr Alvin Clarke, who himself donated a total station

and an automatic level. The new instruments represent

a significant addition to the under-resourced Surveying

Equipment Store.

Continuing Education Courses

The LEVS division continues to offer the professional

Real Estate Salesman 100 hours/4 weeks (full time)

course. A number of other short professional courses

were also delivered

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University of Technology, Jamaica

• ANNUAL REPORT 2014-2015