Environmental Certification for Construction Professionals – Workshop I

About the ECCoPro Project

As the lack of investment in skills at all levels of the construction industry supply chain represents one of the main risks to large scale energy renovation in Ireland, the Irish Green Building Council is now exploring the opportunity of introducing a customer-friendly energy efficiency accreditation system for building professionals ECCoPro.

The objective of such a scheme would be to support closer alignment between professionals, and to allow end-users to clearly identify construction professionals who have upskilled in energy efficiency related skills, thus incentivising professionals to upskill in the area.

This project targets employed and unemployed construction professionals, as well as future construction professionals i.e. students.

About the workshop

Following up on the publication of “Construction professionals’ energy efficiency knowledge and upskilling – A short review” in September, the aim of this initial workshop is to better identify industry skills needs.

The workshop will be facilitated by Chris Chapman from the Change Exploratory.

RUNNING ORDER

08.45: Registration & Networking  

09.15: Welcome address – Marion Jammet, IGBC 

09.35: Participants Introduction 

09.55: Session 1 – Better identifying key industry skills needs  

10h45 Coffee Break 

11h10 Session 1 – Key Findings

11h25 Session 2 – Driving the demand for upskilling

12.45:  Closing remarks and next steps 

For further information on this workshop and /or the ECCoPro project please contact [email protected].

This project is partly funded by the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland.