New Skills for Green Jobs

Roger Stone OBESector Strategy Manager South

09 Jul 12

Aim of Today

• An overview of the UK Low Carbon Strategy

• Key LC Players

• The factors that are driving the Construction Industry’s LC Strategy

• The Construction and Built Environment response to Low Carbon (Green Deal/ Green Skills/ Green Jobs)

‘To De-Mystify’

UK GovernmentClimate Change Act 2008

Two key aims of the Act:

• Improve carbon management and help towards a low carbon economy in the UK

• Demonstrate strong UK leadership internationally- committed to taking our share of responsibility for reducing global emissions

UK GovernmentClimate Change Act 2008

Key Provisions:

• Legally binding targets: Green house gas emissions reduced by 80% by 2050, CO2 emissions reduced by 26%

• Carbon budgeting system: 5 year caps on emissions

• Committee on Climate Change: Monitor annual progress

• Include Aviation and Shipping emissions

• Have regard for the impact of domestic action on climate change

• Further measures: Introduce powers and legislation on biofuels, household waste, Green Deal

• Risk Assessment: Every 5 years

Government’s Low Carbon Plan

• Britain powered by cleaner energy

• More efficient energy use in homes and businesses

• Secure energy supplies and stable energy prices

• Jobs and growth benefits from a move to a low carbon economy

• Government departments working together on the same agenda

• Overarching plan for: Energy generation, Transport and the Built Environment

Government’s Low Carbon Plan

• 3 key areas are responsible for over 80% of UK’s greenhouse gas emissions:

– Generating electricity

– Heating homes and businesses

– Powering cars and vehicles

Government’s Low Carbon Plan- Outline actions to tackle 3 priority areas and Green Jobs

CBE related: Saving energy in Homes and Communities

• More efficient homes (Green Deal)

• Making the move to low carbon heat

• Building new homes to high environmental standards (Zero carbon)

• Changing customer behaviour

• Reducing emissions for businesses and industry

• Cutting emissions from waste (transition to a zero waste economy)

Built Environment accounts for % of all UK Carbon emissions!

47%

WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?

DEFRA

EU

GOVT

DCLG

DECC

BIS

NEW SUSTAINABLE

BUILDS

WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?

DEFRA

EU

GOVT

DECC

BIS

GREEN REFURBRETROFIT

WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?

DEFRA

EU

GOVT

DECC

BIS

GREEN COUNCIL

WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?

DEFRA

EU

GOVT

DECC

BIS

GREEN REFURB RETROFIT

GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION

BOARD

Low Carbon Construction Action Plan

• Demonstrating the benefits and opportunities of low carbon construction through leadership and cooperation across the private and public sectors 

• Creating greater clarity in a complex landscape, enabling the industry to better understand the opportunities that will be available to them in the future.

• Ensuring that we have the right framework of incentives and interventions to enable the market to flourish and the right levels of skills, research and innovation to enable and support growth

• The delivery of the Low Carbon Construction Action Plan will be overseen by the Green Construction Board

UK LC Construction Action Plan –Key Themes

• Implement changes to public sector procurement

• New level of cooperation between Government and Industry

• Leadership and Cooperation

• Public Sector good practice

• Overcoming complexity

• Affordability and funding

• Incentivisation

• Capacity and Skills

• Research, Innovation and Information

• International opportunities

WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?

DEFRA

EU

GOVT

DECC

BIS

GREEN REFURB RETROFIT

GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION

BOARD

GREEN DEAL

GREEN DEAL• A Collaborative Approach to the Green Deal and the Low Carbon Agenda

• Range of measures, such as insulation, heating or lighting, to be installed in people’s homes and businesses at no upfront cost

• Green Deal is based on the principle that some energy efficiency related changes to properties pay for themselves

• 14 million of the UK's 27 million homes expected to benefit. It also predicts that it will create 250,000 green jobs by 2015

• Energy saving measures recommended for properties will need to be both appropriate to the construction of the property and correctly installed

•A competent property assessment and installation workforce is therefore essential

•A common Code of Practice (CoP)

Green Deal – key principles– Market driven approach with parameters set by Government

– Entitlement to accredited advice – with recommendations on energy efficiency improvements

– Agreement to package of measures that pays for itself over time – ‘Golden Rule’

– Accredited products and installation

– Support for poorer households and certain installations through links with ECO

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Remote Advice

Independent and impartial advice via telephone and internet

Signposting service to other parts of the Green Deal e.g. assessment, installation etc.

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Assessment Finance InstallationRepayments and Follow

Up

Remote Advice

Assessment

All households entitled to an energy efficiency assessment as part of Green Deal

Only an authorised assessor can produce

Standardised, impartial assessment including:

o Fabric assessment

o Other advice, including behavioural

Recommendations must be robust enough to inform quotes for approved measures/ products under the Green Deal

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Assessment Finance InstallationRepayments and Follow

Up

Remote Advice

Installation

Green Deal will require standards and accreditation for products and installers

Installer will need to:

– meet certain standards to practice under the Green Deal

– carry the Green Deal quality mark/ logo

– sign off work once complete and inform GD Provider that repayments can begin

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Assessment Finance InstallationRepayments and Follow

Up

Remote Advice

WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?

DEFRA

EU

GOVT

DECC

BIS

GREEN REFURB RETROFIT

GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION

BOARD

GREEN DEAL

WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?

DEFRA

EU

GOVT

DECC

BIS

GREEN REFURB RETROFIT

GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION

BOARD

GREEN DEAL

GREEN DEAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCE

WHO ARE THE LC ‘KEY’ PLAYERS?

DEFRA

EU

GOVT

DECC

BIS

GREEN REFURB RETROFIT

GREEN COUNCIL GREEN CONSTRUCTION

BOARD

GREEN DEAL

GREEN DEAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCE

ASSET

SUMMITCSKILLS

Vision of the Green Deal Skills Alliance (GDSA)

• Development of a Green Deal Competency Framework: an integrated portfolio of National Occupational Standards and Green Deal ready qualifications in time for the official launch of the Green Deal in Autumn 2012. This will support a ‘business solution’, to enable government policy to be delivered by a competent and safety aware workforce

• Delivery of an effective Green Deal awareness raising programme to employers, trade unions, learners and providers to ensure maximum take up of the opportunities for business growth and job creation

• Development of an approved network of Green Deal training providers to ensure that provision matches demand

Addressing the Green Deal Challenge

• Enhanced Labour Market Intelligence specific to Green Deal associated skills

• Capacity building in Green Deal specific areas ensuring that accredited workers have the right skills across the built environment

• A Green Deal Competency Framework which will clarify all competency-based standards, qualifications and schemes relevant to the Green Deal and provide a starting point for gap analysis.

• New National Occupational Standards (NOS) and qualifications specific to the Green Deal agenda and accreditation of new units at speed to be in place by Spring 2012. This included cross-occupational Green Deal standards and units, covering for example:

• Knowledge of Green Deal• Whole property energy efficiency

• Application of skills and build processes under the Green Deal

• On-site integration of Green Deal trades

• Customer service

• Training Provider Manuals aimed at promoting consistency in the delivery of training relating to ‘Green Deal’ trades, such as Energy Advice and Insulation.

• Support for training providers to enhance capability to provide the built environment workforce with the knowledge needed to deliver the government’s Green Deal vision.

To support and underpin the Green Deal, the GDSA action plan will deliver the following outcomes:

GREEN DEAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCE Asset Skills

Asset has focussed on the assessment of energy use and provision of energy advice for both domestic and non domestic property

Current GDSA work:

• NOS and qualifications (Level 3 & 4) for Commercial Energy Advice

• Piloting new Home Energy Advice qualifications

• Development of Energy Advice Apprenticeship Framework (Home and Commercial Energy Advice)

• Development of a skills strategy to ensure compliance with the Carbon Reduction Commitment by large energy users

GREEN DEAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCE SummitSkills

Summit is the Building Services sector (electro technical, HVAc, refrigeration and plumbing)

Oversee low carbon reductions relating to local power generation and micro generation

Key Priorities:

• Develop a strategy for Environmental Technologies

• Establish a NSA for Environmental Technologies

•Fiscal incentives (Feed in Tariff and Renewable Heat Incentive)

•Work with DECC on the Microgeneration Certification Scheme

GREEN DEAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCE ConstructionSkills

CSkills focus is on retrofit housing: the building fabric and the interface with micro generation such as solar

Initial focus was on the existing workforce and upskilling but now working in parallel with requirements for HE, FE and new entrants

Priority areas:

• To deliver accredited training across a range of craft and technical disciplines

•Develop ‘Train the Trainer’ programmes for FE, Assessors and Work Based Learning

•Develop new/ amend existing NOS and qualifications

GREEN DEAL

Occupational areas covered:

− cavity wall insulation

− loft insulation

− solid wall insulation

− internal insulation

− external wall insulation

− cavity wall tie replacement

− insulating framed sections of buildings

− wood preserving and damp-proofing

EMPLOYER INVESTMENT FUND

RETROFIT

GREEN DEAL

GREEN DEAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCE

ASSET

SUMMITCSKILLS

EIF 1

Employer Investment Fund –EIF 1

• Enhanced LMI specific to GD

• GD Competency Framework

• NOS and Qualifications specific to GD

• Code of Practice and PAS

• Training Provider Manuals

• Support to Training Providers to provide a competent workforce

• Develop an advisory body ‘Expert Working Group’ (EWG)

• Green Deal Connection Roadshows

National Occupational Standards Insulation and Building Treatments

• Reviewed November to March 2011• Amended to reflect current practices • Occupational areas covered:

− cavity wall insulation

− loft insulation− solid wall insulation− internal insulation− external wall insulation− cavity wall tie replacement− insulating framed sections of buildings− wood preserving and damp-proofing.

National Occupational Standards

Other relevant occupational areas:

• Roofing Occupations (Solar PV Installation)• Applied Waterproof Membranes (Flat Roof

Insulation, Green Roofs)

Available QCF Type Qualifications

• Level 2 NVQ Certificate in Insulation and Building Treatments− loft insulation, cavity wall insulation, external wall insulation, draught-proofing, internal insulation, insulating framed sections

• Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Insulation and Building Treatments− wood preserving and damp proofing, cavity wall tie replacement

Qualifications cont’d

• Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Applied Waterproof Membranes− Built Up Bituminous Roofing, Green Roofs

• Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Roofing Occupations − Additional units available for preparing and installing solar collectors to roofs

(stand alone qualification pathway proposal in development for solar panel installation to roofs)

EMPLOYER INVESTMENT FUND –Phase 2

RETROFIT

GREEN DEAL

GREEN DEAL STRATEGIC ALLIANCE

ASSET

SUMMITCSKILLS

EIF 1

EIF 2

Employer Investment Fund Phase 2 (EIF 2)

• From Apr 2012 (as EIF 1 completes)

• Focus on building capacity within local supply chains and provider networks

• GDSA will work alongside early adopters of GD to:

– Support workforce development,

– Capture and propagate employer ambition

– Generate capacity within the training provider network

Cut the Carbon2012

This involves…

•raising awareness•changing/shaping perception•driving action•positioning CITB-ConstructionSkills as the leadership organisation and respected voice in green skills arena•Influencing Government decisions and policy making

Audiences

Primary•Construction SMEs – employer/individual•Major Contractors as influencers•Federations•Training Providers•Central/devolved Governments (DECC,BIS,WAG and Scottish Government)•Local Authorities and Local Enterprise Partnerships•Internal i.e. Skills Strategy, Employer Services, business product owners (NCC, Business Services)

Secondary

The consumer

www.cskills.org/cutcarbon