{"id":7560,"date":"2024-02-07T09:23:51","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T14:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buildingtrades.ca\/?p=7560"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:51:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T14:51:27","slug":"cbtu-introduces-building-it-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/portal.buildingtrades.ca\/en\/cbtu-introduces-building-it-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions introduces Building It Green \u2013 Canada\u2019s most comprehensive climate-focused construction curriculum"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"7560\" class=\"elementor elementor-7560\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1e959704 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"1e959704\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59061425 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"59061425\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>Today, Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions (CBTU) announced the first pilot implementation of <em>Building It Green <\/em>\u2013 Canada\u2019s most comprehensive climate-focused construction education curriculum, designed by tradespeople for tradespeople. Funded in part by the Government of Canada\u2019s Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy\u2019s Union Training and Innovation Program \u2013 Innovation in Apprenticeship, <em>Building It Green<\/em> will be available in over 200 union training centres from coast-to-coast to support Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions\u2019 employer and contractor partners, as the program rolls out nationally over the coming months.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>Designed to empower trainers, journeypersons, and apprentices as Canada sets out to achieve its environmental targets, <em>Building It Green<\/em> is a national union training program intended to strengthen the construction industry\u2019s ability to meet the challenges of climate change. Developed by CBTU, with project partners, the Building It Green project will provide apprentices, trainers, and journeypersons with a deep understanding of how climate change and sustainability intersect with construction and the impact they have on Canada\u2019s future.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p>Together, with SkillPlan, Climate Industry Research Team (CIRT), and Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC), and through funding provided by Employment and Social Development Canada\u2019s (ESDC) Canadian Apprenticeship Strategy\u2019s Union Training and Innovation Program \u2013 Innovation in Apprenticeship, Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions undertook a multi-year project beginning in 2021 to understand the challenges the construction industry can address in supporting Canada\u2019s ambitious net-zero goals. This program is now coming to fruition.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>\u201cSkilled tradespeople are the front-line workers directly responsible for carrying out much of the work needed to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions,\u201d <\/strong>said Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Official Languages, Randy Boissonnault.<strong> \u00a0\u201cOur government\u2019s investment in this project with the Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions is ensuring that apprentices and journeypersons in the construction industry are better equipped with the on-the-job skills that are required to continue to build Canada\u2019s growing clean economy.\u201d<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Canada\u2019s tradespeople are vital to seeing through the green transformation of our infrastructure and communities,\u201d <\/strong>shared Sean Strickland, Executive Director of Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions.<strong> \u201cCanada\u2019s Building Trades Unions is committed to supporting our members by enriching their training and long-term skill development, and we\u2019re proud to provide a program where our members will learn alongside each other, across trades, as our industry collaborates together to build a sustainable future,\u201d <\/strong>continued Strickland.<strong> \u201cIn addition to being deployed across our union training centres, all instructors who have completed the first phase of the Building It Green curriculum will have the opportunity to complete additional training modules through a train the trainer model which have been adapted to over 14 specific trades.\u201d<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p>Representing over 12,000 professional tradespeople, including 3,000 apprentices, throughout Nova Scotia, <a href=\"https:\/\/mainlandbuildingtrades.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mainland Building Trades Council<\/a> is the first to roll out Building It Green curriculums in Canada. The curriculum was guided by an Advisory Committee, encompassing affiliate members of Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions\u2019 and national training directors from coast-to-coastwho shared their expertise throughout the research and curriculum development stages for trade-specific training.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>\u201cOur partners are increasingly incorporating climate considerations in their project plans, and this program will help us ensure we can meet their workforce needs,\u201d <\/strong>says Brad Smith, Executive Director of Mainland Nova Scotia Building Trades<strong>, \u201cWe\u2019re proud to be the first program up and running in Canada and leading on training for our members.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThis unprecedented collaboration between skilled trades workers, climate experts, union training centres, and workforce development experts will ensure Canada has the workforce it needs to meet the challenges of climate change. We\u2019re proud to have collaborated with CBTU as well as other project partners including SRDC \u2013 who are integral in evaluating the program delivery model, and the Climate Industry Research Team \u2013 a specialized team of academic researchers in apprenticeships, trades training and critical low carbon construction issues \u2013 to make this program a success,\u201d <\/strong>said Kyle Downie, CEO of SkillPlan.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4d9f369 elementor-align-center elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"4d9f369\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/portal.buildingtrades.ca\/building-it-green\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">Learn more<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Canada\u2019s Building Trades Unions (CBTU) announced the first pilot implementation of Building It Green \u2013 Canada\u2019s most comprehensive climate-focused construction education curriculum, designed by tradespeople for tradespeople.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - 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