Eryri VIP project team say “bienvenue” to French engineering students
Coleg Menai recently returned to the Eryri VIP project site for a second visit, this time with a group of French civil engineering students who were on an exchange trip to the college’s Llangefni campus.
Led by Eryri VIP Senior Project Manager Steve Ellison, Tunnel Project Engineer Bryony Brown and Project Supervisor Paul Neary, the visit started with a presentation at the Project Information Centre. This provided the students with some context about the Eryri VIP project and information about what they should expect to see on the project site.
The students were then given a walking tour around the Minffordd site, where they got to learn more about the day-to-day operation of a large-scale engineering project firsthand.
Dyfed Jones, Head of Construction at Coleg Menai, who organised the visit, said: “We were eager to showcase some of the construction projects taking place in our area to our French exchange students. This experience gave them a great opportunity to visit a large-scale infrastructure project in Wales, building on their civil engineering studies and broadening their experience beyond what they might have come across in central France.”
Reflecting on the visit, Steve Ellison commented: “We’re always keen to share our learnings from the Eryri VIP project, especially with students who can gain so much from seeing engineering projects outside the classroom.
“We were pleased to have been able to give this opportunity to visiting French students at Coleg Menai, after welcoming a group of their local engineering students to site last year. We will continue to engage with Coleg Menai as we plan the next phases of our ongoing educational outreach.”
If you have any questions about the project, please contact the Eryri VIP project team by emailing us at [email protected] or calling 0800 019 1898. If we are unable to answer your call immediately, please leave a message and a member of our team will get back to you.