Team Building Engineering

Let’s build the Team

Our Engineering Team Alignment experience transforms a simple hands-on challenge into a powerful learning journey. Participants design, construct, and test a mechanical model — such as a catapult, bridge, or custom structure — using limited materials and time. Yet the real objective isn’t just to build a structure, but to build a stronger, more aligned team.

This experiential format develops strategic thinking, collaboration, and communication under real constraints. It helps teams move from individual contribution to collective achievement, from independent effort to shared purpose. Through structured facilitation and guided reflection, participants uncover how their decision-making, leadership, and collaboration patterns mirror their everyday work environment — and how they can realign for better performance.

Before the main challenge, we often include a short warm-up session designed around your organisation’s specific goals. This stage introduces time-bound problem solving and limited-resource scenarios, preparing the group for the core engineering task and encouraging focus, agility, and trust.

Key Learning Outcomes

*Alignment & Shared Purpose: Move from personal goals to collective success.

*Strategic Collaboration: Define strategy, plan effectively, and adapt together.

*Leadership & Accountability: Identify and strengthen natural leadership qualities.

*Team Communication: Enhance coordination, trust, and inter-team synergy.

*Reflection & Application: Translate insights into workplace action.

Delivered across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, this programme is more than a team-building activity — it’s a tailored experiential training designed to align teams, strengthen collaboration, and create lasting behavioural change.

Engineering Team Alignment was created to strengthen one of the most essential capabilities in today’s corporate world — the ability to face change and solve new challenges together. In a fast-evolving business environment, Change Management and agile problem-solving are vital for every organisation, from global corporations to growing local companies.

During this hands-on experience, teams are challenged to design and deliver a project before knowing exactly which materials they will receive. Once resources are revealed, participants must quickly adapt their plans, adjust their strategy, and collaborate effectively to achieve a successful outcome. This process mirrors the reality of today’s workplace — where conditions shift, tools evolve, and teams must stay aligned and resilient.

Why Choose Engineering Team Alignment

*Engages participants of all backgrounds and experience levels.

*Encourages full participation and shared responsibility.

*Requires minimal setup while offering maximum impact.

*Creates a powerful sense of shared success and collective achievement.

Delivered across Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, this experiential programme goes beyond traditional team building — it develops adaptability, collaboration, and alignment, helping your teams work together effectively in times of change.

Materials and Challenge

For this experience, we use simple yet surprising materials — our favourite being pasta! With its variety of shapes and dimensions, it becomes the perfect medium for creativity, experimentation, and teamwork.

In this challenge, teams are tasked with designing and building their own “skyscraper” or structure using only pasta and limited resources. The goal? Not just to build the tallest or most original structure — but to explore how collaboration, strategy, and adaptability lead to success under real constraints.

Facilitators may also introduce friendly competition, awarding recognition for categories such as “Most Innovative Design”, “Best Structural Integrity”, or “Strongest Team Collaboration.”

Through this seemingly simple activity, participants experience how creativity, communication, and alignment turn challenges into collective achievements — a reflection of how great teams build success together.

Simplicity that Drives Team Alignment

One of the greatest strengths of our Engineering Team Alignment experience is its simplicity and adaptability. It can be conducted in virtually any environment — from an elegant indoor ballroom to an outdoor setting with tables on the lawn.

The activity requires minimal setup and preparation, making it an ideal choice for teams with limited time. A powerful alignment experience can be designed and delivered in as little as one hour, while still offering meaningful insight and engagement.

This format is also highly versatile and can be tailored to focus on the outcomes that matter most to your organisation — whether it’s leadership and communication, vision and shared purpose, or creativity and innovation as drivers of success.

Whatever your team’s priorities, we customise each session to ensure it aligns with your goals and delivers measurable impact. Simple in design — powerful in results.

Engineering Team Alignment: Formats and Focus

Our Engineering Team Alignment experience can take on various formats — each customised to meet your organisation’s goals. Yet the core challenge remains the same: to design, build, and deliver a project that achieves a shared objective.

The object created can represent a symbol of your company, a core product, or embody your mission, vision, and values — allowing participants to physically bring your organisational purpose to life. From the initial sketch on paper to hands-on construction and the final presentation to peers, the process mirrors a real business project — blending creativity, strategy, and collaboration.

Each format maintains a balance between experiential learning and engaging fun, ensuring participants walk away not only with a sense of achievement but with deeper alignment, stronger communication, and practical insights they can apply back at work.

Pasta Engineering

Yes — it’s absolutely possible to create buildings and architectural structures using pasta! Our Pasta Engineering activity, also known as the Marshmallow Challenge when using marshmallows to connect the pieces, is a fun yet powerful experiential learning format.

By working with such an unexpected material, teams are pushed into unfamiliar territory — challenging assumptions and stimulating “out-of-the-box” thinking. The exercise highlights how creativity and adaptability emerge when resources are limited and time is short — just like in real business situations.

Participants must plan their approach, divide roles, coordinate efforts, and contribute to a shared construction project that requires communication, innovation, and teamwork to succeed. While it may appear simple, this activity reveals valuable insights about collaboration styles, leadership, and decision-making under pressure.

Because of its flexibility and short duration, Pasta Engineering is perfect for events with limited time — as a dynamic energiser before dinner, a conference breakout, or as part of a broader Team Alignment or Leadership Development programme.

Presentation and Recognition

After showcasing their creativity and engineering skills, teams present their final structures to a panel of judges or their peers. This presentation stage encourages participants to communicate their strategy, teamwork, and problem-solving process, not just the final result — mirroring real-world project reviews.

You may choose to introduce a friendly competition, awarding prizes for categories such as “Tallest Structure,” “Most Innovative Design,” or “Closest to the Original Goal.” Alternatively, the session can be designed to emphasise collective success, celebrating each team for a different strength — whether it’s creativity, stability, teamwork, or originality.

This closing moment reinforces key messages about collaboration, alignment, and shared achievement — turning the experience into a memorable reflection on how diverse skills and perspectives combine to build success.

Lego Engineering

Imagine spending a couple of hours reconnecting with your inner child — not just for fun, but to represent your company and its mission through play. Our Lego Engineering activity transforms simple bricks into a powerful experiential learning tool, designed to strengthen relationships, communication, and collaboration within teams.

Participants are challenged to use Lego bricks to create 3D representations of corporate Mission, Vision, or Values. While building with Lego may feel familiar from childhood, translating abstract concepts into a tangible project requires strategic thinking, active listening, and team alignment.

Every team member’s input counts, and our facilitators observe how teams communicate, negotiate ideas, and find common ways to collaborate effectively. Through this creative process, teams gain insights into how collaboration, clarity, and shared understanding drive success in their professional environment.

Beyond creativity and collaboration, Lego Engineering can be adapted to focus on understanding, communication, and leadership. In this version, teams are given precise instructions, but these are communicated to each individual first, who must then explain the rules to their team. It’s a surprisingly challenging exercise: remembering, interpreting, and conveying instructions under time pressure mirrors real-world leadership and communication challenges.

Participants gain firsthand experience of how clarity, listening, and leadership impact team performance, while also developing patience, coordination, and problem-solving skills.

Throughout the activity, teams spend quality time together in the Lego world — building objects, collaborating on shared goals, and strengthening relationships. They work on both communicative and creative aspects, while being challenged to translate ideas into tangible results.

Catapulta Building

Our Catapult Engineering activity engages participants’ imagination and problem-solving skills by challenging them to design and build a functional machine. Teams start by drafting their project on paper and then construct their catapult using eco-friendly, recyclable, and recycled materials such as wood, cardboard, and rope. Inspired by the inventions of Archimedes or Leonardo da Vinci, the task combines creativity, engineering thinking, and strategic collaboration.

To heighten the challenge, teams do not know in advance which materials will be available, requiring adaptability, quick decision-making, and effective communication. Teams compete to earn the best materials, learning how resource management, coordination, and shared strategy impact results.

The activity culminates in a launch test, where the distance and precision of each catapult determine the winner. Beyond competition, this final act provides an engaging reflection point for participants to discuss teamwork, planning, and alignment — translating the experience into practical insights for workplace collaboration.

Hydraulic Constructions

Among our team alignment activities, we offer a unique social engineering format: Hydraulic Toys. In this hands-on experience, participants design and build functional toys for children in need, such as guests at family homes, kindergartens, or local schools.

Teams work collaboratively, using all necessary tools and following safety protocols, to create toys from 100% eco-friendly materials, including cardboard and wood. Some toys incorporate hydraulic systems, allowing participants to apply engineering principles while designing engaging, functional creations.

The process is fully guided by our experienced trainers, who facilitate planning, problem-solving, and collaboration. Participants also decorate the final products, combining creativity, imagination, and teamwork. While the activity is fun and rewarding, it challenges teams to coordinate, communicate, and innovate, reinforcing practical skills that translate directly to the workplace.

In Hydraulic Toys, teams must:

*Split tasks effectively to leverage each member’s strengths.

*Design and plan the construction collaboratively.

*Follow instructions carefully to ensure functionality and safety.

The primary goal is, of course, to create toys for children in need. But beyond that, this activity strengthens team cohesion, accountability, and motivation. By working together on a socially meaningful project, participants gain a shared sense of achievement, deepen collaboration, and experience firsthand the power of purpose-driven teamwork.