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COURTESY CANADA’S BUILDING TRADES UNIONS - Canada’s Building Trades Unions’ Building it Green program aims to upskill construction tradespeople in climate-friendly and sustainable practices. The program consists of a free, 2.5-hour online foundation course for unionized building trades apprentices and journeypersons as well as affiliated unions and contractor-employer partners.
A single-day, train-the-trainer, in-person workshop has also been developed to teach instructors how to integrate the lessons into their existing curriculum.“The tradespeople are leading this transition in the construction industry and we want to make sure that tradespeople are well equipped with the knowledge and they know that construction is not necessarily a barrier, but it’s a solution,” explains Lindsay Amundsen, director of workforce development at the building trades.
The train-the-trainer workshop will empower trainers to integrate climate literacy into apprenticeship training for net-zero construction, increase green building awareness and share effective teaching strategies. “We are making sure that we update this information as things change and evolve over time in the trades,” says Amundsen. “We’re going to update our content so that it is always fresh. We see this as sort of step one and building that foundation and knowledge and, as there are new job opportunities out there, we can work together to complement that training and build off of it.
The team interviewed trades and instructors and learned they were already being taught some of the necessary skills but didn’t explicitly know that they had a bearing on climate change.
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