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A key supplementary service offered by our practice is training
green construction skills in communities, essential in delivering
the empowerment component of the social-economic-environment
triple-bottom-line traid. Via inter alia skills census and
local-resource audits, we determine labour availability/
unemployment rate/gender&demographic profile, resource base and
hierarchy of needs – then analyse infrastructure/human
development/capital requirements. We locate local craft skills and
practitioners where such survive – then offer top-up/new
skills-training in the methods and building techniques deemed
appropriate to context.
The outputs are thus three-fold, local
investment through infrastructure gains, employment through skills
transfer, long-term empowerment through skills roll-out and
reapplication in the broader community. An entrepeneurial training
component by others in our network/team are oft added to insure
SMME roll - out. The training component is a key lead-in to
team-driven integrated procurement, achieveable on through
multi-disciplinary action. Building/energy/permaculture Workshops
at annual SBE Conferences underscore collegial
learning-through-doing. (www.sustainablebuiltenvironments.com) |
