Enabling Successful Built Environment Apprenticeships: A Call to Action
…continuation and success of built environment apprenticeships, especially at higher technical and professional levels. Apprenticeships have emerged as a key avenue for bringing people into technical and professional roles in…
A blueprint for successful built environment professional apprenticeships
…and deliver successful apprenticeships? Workshop two: Solutions needed to achieve successful apprenticeships Ensuring high-quality apprenticeships and the collective achievement of positive outcomes for all stakeholders. Enabling successful built environment apprenticeships…
Building climate competency: how UCEM is leading the way in professional sustainability education
…stages of the built environment life cycle, it is imperative that these various approaches to developing professional competencies are aligned as closely as possible. The professional institutions will also need…
Climate change denial: 6 common myths, debunked
…change scepticism and denial is a very real and common position that threatens to destabilise and undo the work of governments, businesses and everyday people to combat global warming. What…
Net zero carbon buildings explained: here’s why they matter
…Business Specialist Apprenticeship will give your teams the skills they need, both now and in the future. Find out more: Sustainability Business Specialist Apprenticeship – University College of Estate Management…
7 sustainability skills every built environment professional needs
…way of thinking and doing helps to create a culture where sharing ideas that are less mainstream and comfortable not only becomes accepted but encouraged. 6. Communication Good communication skills,…
A path to disaster – unpacking the fallout of the final Grenfell Inquiry report
…due course. This will be developed following consultation and in collaboration with the Grenfell community and our Community Forum.” As the Construction Industry Council commented in a statement on the…
Podcast: Digging Deeper – Projects
…module – a two-semester research module culminating in a 10,000-word dissertation. To help those students prepare for the module, we sought perspectives from UCEM staff and students. UCEM academic delivery…
A case study: Steaming ahead with an apprenticeship on the Crossrail project – Yehya Hawila, Assistant Quantity Surveyor at Costain
…It was interesting to learn that Sir Terry actually began his career as an apprentice too! His story is a great example of the success an apprenticeship can bring if…
Hong Kong construction booming but talent at an all time low
…business project. Also, companies generally end up spending much less on up-skilling and retaining staff compared to the amount required to recruit highly skilled candidates. And educating unqualified staff while…
My life in the Built Environment: Guest blog by David Hunt, UCEM’s BSc Access Module Leader
…and after two years I moved to Warsaw for a role in their Polish office. I then took another career break to complete a postgraduate certificate in Russian Language at…
Lucy Roper’s weekly Built Environment blog: Brexit business advice, recent architectural feats and surprising facts about librarians
…advice for businesses If we are to still leave the EU, it may be worth brushing up on what you can do for your business to prepare for life post-Brexit….