The winners of the annual ULI Hines Student Competition – Europe 2023, have recently been announced, with a team from the University of Manchester scooping the top prize.

Sarah Jackman catches up with one of the winning team of four, Nimrah Maryam, along with Brian Moran, senior managing director and head of Hines in Ireland as well as member of the jury for the competition, and Emanuel Rebelo, senior associate at Hines and past winner of the ULI Hines student competition.

They discuss the benefits of entering a collaborative project-based competition, what it’s taught them and how those learnings can be applied to professional life. As Moran says: “I am constantly surprised at the talent we see coming through. We insist on diversity – gender and disciplinary – because when they work together and realise that they have to collaborate to bring the best out in one another, it’s quite astonishing what happens. When you see the team working together, you see the passion and the energy come through.”