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BEST: Built Environment Sustainability Training

BEST: Built Environment Sustainability Training. Dr Julie Gwilliam , Director. Aims. BEST seeks to: unite stakeholders with responsibilities for skills in: Energy Water Waste Construction . Aims. BEST seeks to: create a 10 year strategy & training delivery roadmap

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BEST: Built Environment Sustainability Training

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  1. BEST:Built Environment Sustainability Training Dr Julie Gwilliam, Director

  2. Aims BEST seeks to: • unite stakeholders with responsibilities for skills in: • Energy • Water • Waste • Construction

  3. Aims BEST seeks to: • create a 10 year strategy & • training delivery roadmap to better equip businesses, employees and training providers in Wales

  4. Aims BEST seeks to: • enable a transition to a lower carbon, sustainable built environment sector • through the funding, development and provision of new training courses

  5. Introduction • Aims to develop strategy with joint sponsors, informing outline pilot training courses • Total Programme value: £7,925,362 • Training project budget: £5,747,000 • Intervention rate: 50%

  6. Introduction Key stages • Phase 1 (to June 2013): • Development of 10 year educational strategy • Proposals for current training needs • Phase 2 (to July 2015): • Procurement and pilot delivery of training • Monitoring & Reporting on the above

  7. Partners Programme Lead: Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University Joint Sponsors:

  8. Structure Construction Lead: Construction Skills Contributors: Asset CEW ProSkills • SummitSkills Low Carbon Energy • Lead: • Summit Skills, Contributors: Asset CSkills EST E&U (S.G.) Waste Lead: CEW Contributors: Asset / Cskills ProSkills • SummitSkills , • E&U (S.G.) Water Lead: EST Contributors: Asset EST • SummitSkills • E&U (S.G.) Existing Build: Lead – Asset, • Contributors: Cskills, EST, SummitSkills, E&U (S.G.) New Build: Lead – CSkills, Contributors: Asset, SummitSkills, E&U (S.G.)

  9. Objectives • Strengthen the knowledge base, supporting the knowledge economy. • Focus upon up-skilling the existing workforce • Redress gender imbalance issues • Support uptake & promotion of females entering/gaining occupational qualifications

  10. Objectives • Through a central Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship role: • Investigate existing delivery of the ESDGC agenda within Wales • Research best practice from wider UK and international delivery • Ensure training embeds agenda within new courses • Suggest modifications to existing courses

  11. Objectives • Respond to the need for advanced qualifications • Focus on higher level / professional skills Level 4 & Above • Enable skills development & progression from typical L2 craft skills/qualifications towards L3, L4 • Delivered in a flexible and accessible manner e.g. distance, blended and e-learning.

  12. Blended learning

  13. Objectives • Ensure that the strategy, courses & skills delivered are evidenced and relevant • Increase capacity for forward planning in skills for the sector. • Collaborate with existing projects/organisations & avoid duplication

  14. Targets Total participants: 560 Gaining qualifications: 250 Employers assisted: 240 Adoption / improvement of Equality &Diversity strategies & systems: 125

  15. Next Steps • Delivery of Skills Needs Analyses: Spring 2013 • Programme awareness raising: Ongoing • Procurement workshops: North & South Wales • Staged open procurement of priority training courses: Ongoing 1ststage – March 2013

  16. WEST? WEST: Welsh Energy Sector Training Main objective: to develop skills to aid the utilisation and uptake of new technologies developed through the industrial research projects of the Low Carbon Research Institute Convergence Energy Programme. Duration: to February 2015 Lead: Cardiff University, Welsh School of Architecture Partners: Glamorgan University / Cardiff University School of Engineering Swansea University / Glyndwr University / Swansea Metropolitan University.

  17. WEST? • Focussing on LCRI Work Strands: • Develop & implement a Skills Needs Analysis • Develop a low carbon educational strategy for Wales • Develop & pilot modules within industry • Develop a continuation strategy • Email: WEST@cf.ac.uk / Twitter: @LCRI_WEST / Web: www.welshenergysectortraining.org

  18. Legacy BEST aims to leave a lasting legacy on the training and up-skilling in sustainable practises of the existing workforce in the Welsh Built Environment sector, not least through its 10-year strategy, but also through commissioning new pilot training courses. These courses are likely to set Wales apart and create a precedent for their development in neighbouring nations.

  19. Contact web: www.best.cf.ac.uk twitter: @best_wales email: best@cardiff.ac.uk

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