While registration for MERIT 2012 has now closed (closing date was: Wednesday 25 January 2012) we still can fit you in. Use the Contact Us  page to get in touch.

The fee for taking part is £425 (+ VAT*) per team.      (VAT would NOT apply to companies outwith the UK)

Please note, we do need a Purchase Order number before we can accept a teams full registration. However, we have provided a facility for you to pre-register, pending you getting hold of the all important Purchase Order Number.

Full Registration

There are two ways to register for MERIT 2012.

• By using the On-line Registration Form
• By downloading, completing and returning the Paper Registration Form

Pre-Registration

Pre-registering will give you access to trialling when it becomes available, so that you can be ready for when MERIT 2012 starts. Once we receive the Purchase Order number and Accounts details, you will then be added to the main game.

• Pre-Registration Form

Training Grant

• A Training and Development Plan Grant is available to eligible employers registered with CITB-ConstructionSkills.
  
  A maximum of two training days per individual participant may be claimed. The team members will need to obtain the achievement certificate following their participation in MERIT, identifying they have obtained the two ICE CPD points.
  
  For further details, please contact your local office http://www.cskills.org/contact-us/offices.aspx or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Our Accounts Details

Please use the following details if we need to be placed on your suppliers list:

MERIT 2012 has been set up to model a construction industry operating in an economy emerging from a recession with up to date bank interest rates and charges and current corporation tax. Learning to survive as a construction business in tough market conditions with fierce competition is the knowledge currently needed by our industry executives.

After completing eight rounds simulating two years of trading the top six teams will be invited to Loughborough University to experience a further two years of simulated trading in the MERIT 2012 final, the winning team will be presented with the ICE’s Silver Salver and named the 2012 MERIT Champion.

Registration

• Sep 2011 - Feb 2012

Trialling

• Mid. Dec 2011 - Late Jan 2012

Submissions  

• Round 1 - 18:00 GMT, Thursday 26 Jan 2012
• Round 2 - 18:00 GMT, Thursday 02 Feb 2012
• Round 3 - 18:00 GMT, Thursday 09 Feb 2012
• Round 4 - 18:00 GMT, Thursday 16 Feb 2012
• Round 5 - 18:00 GMT, Thursday 23 Feb 2012
• Round 6 - 18:00 GMT, Thursday 01 Mar 2012
• Round 7 - 18:00 GMT, Thursday 08 Mar 2012
• Round 8 - 18:00 GMT, Thursday 15 Mar 2012

Final at Loughborough University

• 03 & 04 April 2012

Overview

• MERIT Overview (Powerpoint Presentation)

MERIT Software & Tutorial

If you have Registered (or Pre-registered) a team for MERIT, the MERIT Team Module Software (when released) and Tutorial will be available on your Team's dedicated download page.

Login details for you to access your Team's download page are sent out via email to all team members:

• If Trialling is open, within 24 hours of your registration (or pre-registration) being received.
• If Trialling has not opened, when Trialling opens.

If you need these details to be sent out again, then please Contact Us.

The tutorial for MERIT is avaialble in both Microsoft Powerpoint and PDF format. The Tutorial can be found on your 'Team Details' page once you are logged in.

Promotional material

Please click here for the The MERIT 2024 flyers

contact form

The following games are currently running:

Glasgow Caledonian University 2012: gcal 2012

• Team Registration in progress

Loughborough University: cvb2011

• Game completed

MERIT 2011

• Game completed
  - The Blue Revolution are crowned champions

Loughborough University: cvp2010

• Game completed

MERIT has been developed over a period of thirty years at Loughborough University by Prof. Ron McCaffer and colleagues experienced in the management of the construction industry, business management and training. MERIT remains based at Loughborough University.

For 2011 we have a new IT support team with a background in the construction industry.

MERIT has enjoyed the support of many other individuals over the years including successive chairmen of the Institution of Civil Engineers’ Engineering Management Board, in particular Haro Bedalian FREng who was chairman of the Engineering Management Board and director of Balfour Beatty when MERIT was launched as the ICE’s National Business Game.

The support of many former staff in Balfour Beatty and the other sponsoring organisations, namely Mouchel and CITB, is also acknowledged.

The primary support team for MERIT:

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