Corporate Quest: Flint and Neill

Client and Objective

London Quest were asked by engineering company Flint and Neill to help them celebrate their 50th anniversary. They wanted a Quest that would not only entertain their employees, but would also show off some of their engineering feats in London.

The Quest

The Quest began 3 days before the afternoon of the Quest when an email was sent around the office explaining that a new ‘Flint and Neill Fellowship’ had been created and was to be awarded to an employee as an acknowledgement of unprecedented achievement in the ‘Art of Engineering’.

On the afternoon of the Quest the employees were gathered together to hear which one of the nominees had been awarded the prestigious accolade. As the nominees were read out a courier apparently carrying the prize entered the office.

Before the name could be read out the courier had seized one of the nominees and was swiftly out of the door. The employees looked on in shock and bewilderment. No sooner had the assailant and his victim left the building a Police Officer and Detective entered. They explained the situation and gave vital information to the employees on the crime in question and the motivations for the kidnap.

The employees were divided into six teams and set off to rescue their colleague and find the perpetrators of the crime. They soon discovered a passageway where lay the remnants the original London Bridge and their colleague. He passed on further information gleaned from his captor and the teams where off in full swing.

They travelled to the masterpiece by Richard Rogers, Lloyds of London and learnt about the art behind the inside out design from a pair of interns, who in actual fact were working for a rival engineering company. The teams then moved on to the Bridge of Aspiration (one of F&N’s own), pausing to gather further information from the Police Officers. Then teams moved on to a landscape photographic exhibition at the National Theatre, its original structure designed once again by F&N. Here amongst the landscapes they discovered images of famous bridges (their specialty) and drew down further clues from one in particular.

On the home straight the ventured into the Tate Modern past the Millennium Bridge (they were responsible for the reducing the ‘wobble’) and finally finished at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London Bridge.

Although their travels were over they still had to solve the mystery. Teams had collected information en-route from the characters and now had to decipher, using a template and a booklet (highlighting all of Flint and Neill’s best work), who was responsible for the kidnap? They also had to reconstruct an image of the courier.

Only one team managed to work out that the Police Officers had really been working undercover for a rival engineering company in order to glean ideas from Flint and Neill.

The mystery solved left only one task remaining, the small question over, who deserved the ‘Flint and Neill Fellowship’? Half way around the Quest all the groups had been instructed to write a piece of poetry that defined ‘The Art of Engineering’, after putting the finishing touches to their masterpieces the groups delivered the poetry. Surprisingly, but because of their creativity and eloquence in delivery, it was the team last to complete the Quest who ended up as the new Flint and Neill Fellows.

Feedback – Louise Duval – Flint and Neill

‘Everyone enjoyed the quest immensely, so thank you to you and the actors for a memorable day! Hope I get the opportunity to do something with you again in the future.’