Are building and construction graduate skills meeting the needs of a greener built environment?
Project Leader: Dr Carolyn Hayles , School of Planning Architecture and Civil Engineering The construction and building industry is an industry where employees with knowledge and understanding of sustainability and sustainable development are in increasingly high demand. This is as a result of the push to implement more environmentally sustainable management policies, practices and operations to meet current environmentally focused legislation. The intention of this research is to establish whether skills priorities have changed given the increased awareness of the need to focus on the environment and on building ‘green’ and whether our current graduates leave QUB with the skills required to meet the needs of the industry.
