Sustainability

We’re proud to partner with the Supply Chain Sustainability School, joining over 200 industry leaders to push the built environment toward a more sustainable future. This empowers our staff and students to engage and improve their sustainability skills and knowledge. We support the School by funding its resources to enable our supply chain to access free content, enabling them to deliver more sustainable projects with us.

We are making our estates ecofriendly by reducing our waste, energy and water consumption and have achieved zero landfill across our three Colleges. We are working closely with HI Group and Trident as we embark on the next stages of our decarbonisation journey, adopting more sustainable energy strategies to reduce both our carbon emissions and operating costs.

We’ve aligned our curriculum with the 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – a globally-agreed, shared blueprint for a better world by 2030. By mapping where and how SDGs are delivered across our courses, we ensure learners are engaged in sustainability education. This approach supports both staff and student development and embeds the SDGs throughout our teaching.

Although sustainability is embedded into all of our curriculum, we have developed a range of Green Skills courses. Covering topics like Carbon Capture and Storage, Heat Recovery, Groundworks and Pipelaying and Fenestration, these programmes equip learners with the technical skills needed to work with key green technologies or enter high-demand sectors.

We’ve joined over 3,000 schools, colleges and nurseries in supporting Let’s Go Zero - a national campaign uniting education providers in climate action. We’re also collaborating with S4FE, the Association of Colleges, the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges, Yorkshire Learning Providers, and Climate Commissioner Steve Frampton to strengthen our commitment to sustainability.

We host our own Sustainability Week to inspire students and staff to take part in eco-friendly activities and show how small changes can make a big difference. This year’s events included recycling and upcycling workshops, tree planting, clothes swap shops, meat-free days, sustainability pledges, and more.