CIOB has added its name to a list of organisations and businesses supporting a new green skills initiative in London.
The Future Skyline Skills Commitment, which will launch in October 2025, is aimed at encouraging built environment employers to offer more employment and training opportunities for new entrants, including young people aged 16-18+.
The commitment will be self-monitored and will include three levels for businesses to opt into joining.
The Skills for a Sustainable Skyline Taskforce, led by the City of London Corporation, is working to encourage building clients and developers to give preferential supplier status to firms who sign up to the new commitment, in recognition of their work to recruit new entrants into the sector.
It is free for businesses to become a signatory, and at the time of writing 27 companies have stepped forward, with a target of 50.
The commitment will be hosted on the Skyline Skills Hub, a new website resource for industry to showcase green skills best practice from across central London’s commercial built environment – including the attraction, green upskilling/reskilling and retention of skilled workers.
The taskforce and hub view the commercial built environment as a canvas where everyone can shape the future of sustainability and play a vital role in creating low-carbon office spaces across Central London.
Amanda Williams, CIOB’s head of environmental sustainability, said the institute is delighted to support the commitment.
“At its heart is the principle that construction organisations must embed both inclusion and sustainability, develop their teams so that they have the green and other future skills that they will need to compete as modern professionals, and act as role models in our industry, which is all closely aligned with the focused themes in our own corporate plan.
“This new employer commitment will support organisations to both progress the green skills agenda and increase the number of diverse new entrants to the industry, which must be seen as a huge positive.”
