UTC goes down – into the basement

The innovation week is nearing the end and now it is time to build the prototypes so the most construction skilled groups go down into the depths under building C and F

Handsome, massive silver watches, trendy clothes and shoes are no barriers to swinging tools around. The sawdust flies around the room and settles in a fine layer on constructing student Heine Andreasen’s cap. Coupled with the growing sweat mark on his back, his appearance bears witness to his hard work. At the end of the empty corridors lie respectively the statics and metal workshops. It is here that the UTC-groups weld and saw and nail and paint.

“Wait and minute, here’s a screw,” says building supervisor Heine loudly and instinctively production technologist to be, Kasper Nissen, comes running with his Black ‘n Decker. Together with Ahmed Mustafa, they are building a chip board construction which portrays the triangular kitchen sink of the future.

“I am mostly used to working with keyboards,” says Ahmed quietly, who is studying to become an IT Engineer.

“It was just to try something new, so I asked a friend to sign me up for the same project that he had chosen,” he laughs and thinks of why he is suddenly a workman for a day.

Cousin Ahmed Abdulla, who is also studying to be an T Engineer, is busy with tape in one hand and a stapler in the other. The prototype for the kitchen of the future must look great of course!

The group’s energy is contrasted by the other students, who work more quietly. At the other tables people are cutting and pasting away, in quite authentic Jørgen Klevinian manner, creating houses and buildings of all sorts.

“We can just do the painting in here,” Heine interrupts and changes the hand saw for a can of spray paint. Kasper quickly jumps in and stops his colleague and says sarcastically: “Maybe we ought to do that outside – just to be a little considerate, don’t you think?”

Heine only just looks up when one of the girls carefully smiles and says “we would appreciate that, thank you.”

The young men are evidently proud of their version of the kitchen of the future. Ahmed tells and shows energetically the fruit of this week’s labour. With his hands in the air, he talks about flat screens and induction hotplates, and then he pulls the hotplates to show how they can be folded together to stand in a corner.

Experience group 8’s version of the kitchen of the future and all the other projects on the UTC market place, Friday at noon at The Square.
Caption: Heine Andreasen and Ahmed Mustafa inspect the project. (Photo: VIA University College)