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www.build-up.org.uk
Linking London Lifelong Learning Network
Employer Engagement Event
27 January 2010
www.build-up.org.uk
What is Build Up?
• HEFCE ECIF Fund: £450k• Westminster Works (WCC): £80k• Collaborative project
• Professional Bodies
• CIC, LLLN, London First
• CaSE, SABE, WBS & SECS
• Launched 3 August 2009• Runs until end of September 2010
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What is Build Up?
• Programme aimed at professionals from the Built Environment sector who have been affected by the current recession
• Offers the opportunity to identify and develop skills in key shortage areas
• Focus on environment (the “Green Agenda”) and collaboration
• Targets: 1500 places offered to 800 participants
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Career Focus Workshops
• Encourage professional networking and peer support
• Facilitate personal development goal setting, skills awareness and action planning
• Signpost to relevant professional resources• Identify potential new professional development
requirements
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Developing Talent Short Courses
• A range of short courses (2 to 5 days long)• Aimed at enhancing skills within a multi-disciplinary
context covering:
• Climate change
• Community empowerment and planning
• Design skills
• Negotiation and business relationship building
• Economic skills in a changing market
• Project management
• Promoting your business through IT
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Innovative Collaboration Live Projects
• Drawing on the full range of built environment disciplines, the projects offer the opportunity to work alongside other industry professionals to undertake project-based work, involving local authorities and not-for-profit organisations.
• Lasting 8 to 10 weeks the projects offer participants (up to 15 per team) the opportunity to:
• Develop inter-professional working techniques• Identify new ways of looking at urban issues• Develop real solutions to real built environment issues across
London• Focus on the development of green skills and outline different
approaches to low carbon and sustainable community issues
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Build Up Events
• Seminars and Networking Sessions• The State and Future of the Built Environment: CIC
and Experian
• Ad hoc sessions (responsive to participants’ needs)
• Starting your own business• Career development• ??
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How have we done so far?
• 20 Career Focus workshops• 45 Short courses• 5 Live Projects
• More to come…
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How have we done so far?
• 462 Registrations
• Professional backgrounds:
• Architecture • Building Services • Construction • Housing • Planning • Structural Engineering • Surveying • Sustainability Consultancy • Transport • Urban Design • Urban Regeneration
• 120 joined our Build Up LinkedIn Group• Over 400 new employer contacts
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Challenges• Moving quickly• Capacity• Participant management
Solutions• Small, responsive team• External venues• New Build Up website/management system
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Next Steps: Creating a legacy
• Employer Engagement
• Embedded within the University of Westminster’s Employer Engagement Strategy
• Short courses and projects relevant to the development needs of business• Sponsorship of participants and courses (redundancy packages)• Support the provision of courses• Accreditation service
• Strategies for engagement
• Strengthening relationship with Westminster City Council• Brokerage of employer relationships via London First, LDA • Promotion of programme to current and new employer links• Create a “knowledge hub” – LinkedIn, website• “Upside-down” conference• Knowledge sharing events
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Further Information:
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Laura HardingBuild Up Project Director
[email protected] 373 22222