{"id":12281,"date":"2026-10-01T12:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/?p=12281"},"modified":"2026-10-01T12:47:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T11:47:39","slug":"concrete-canoe-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/concrete-canoe-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Concrete Canoe 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2025\/12\/Felix-Concrete-Canoe-1985.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12292 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/files\/2025\/12\/Felix-Concrete-Canoe-1985-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>On the 22 October 1980 edition of STOIC&#8217;s <em data-start=\"1018\" data-end=\"1030\">News-Break<\/em>, Mike Prosser reported on a concrete canoe being built. Mike Rowley from Civil Engineering explained that they had previously entered a yearly competition at Thorpe Park. The year before this report, they had won the Construction Prize. The next event was planned for June 1981.<\/p>\r\n<p data-start=\"1311\" data-end=\"1499\">Jump forward to 1985, and <em data-start=\"1337\" data-end=\"1344\">Felix<\/em> reported that the team for that year had scooped most of the prizes, so they must have been doing something right after Mike Rowley handed over to others.<\/p>\r\n<p data-start=\"1501\" data-end=\"1591\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">The photo above is from the <em data-start=\"1529\" data-end=\"1536\">Felix<\/em> report of 1985. The video below is from STOIC in 1980.<\/p>\r\n<p><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qdIxrnHNM4E?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Colin Grimshaw October 2026<\/strong><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concrete Canoes was all the talk back in 1980. STOIC reported from Civil Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3921,295168,390],"tags":[233,212],"class_list":["post-12281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-update","category-student-events","category-technology","tag-civil-engineering","tag-stoic"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcL1pf-3c5","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12281"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12657,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12281\/revisions\/12657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/videoarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}