Scotland is at a critical moment in its journey towards a sustainable built environment.

To ensure a just net-zero transition, we urgently need to develop inclusive community-led institutions which remove existing barriers to essential climate adaptation services and deliver an equitable low-carbon construction sector.

We see access to specialist climate literacy education and sustainable construction skills as essential to addressing some of the most significant social, environmental and economic challenges of our time.

The New Future Construction School intends to deliver funded access to innovative low-carbon construction skills training based in Dalmarnock, Glasgow. 

By establishing ourselves within Glasgow’s East End we hope to help deliver on the city’s longer term strategic vision for the social and economic regeneration of the Dalmarnock area.

Through strategic partnerships we hope to generate social and economic opportunities for communities to participate in and benefit from.

The New Future Construction School exists to equip construction sector participants with the skills required to preserve our existing, and decarbonise our future, built environment.

We believe there needs to be a foundational shift within the current model of vocational skills training.

In practice this requires new and existing construction workers to become versatile and multi-skilled experts in the practical application of bio-based and circular materials for new-build, retrofit, and heritage projects.

Our curriculum intends to bridge the widening sustainable construction skills gap in Scotland and advocate for a decarbonised, low-carbon and circular material culture in construction. 

Our novel model of retrofit and heritage training will be delivered through live construction projects, rehabilitating disused and at-risk buildings for community benefit. 

Through our work we hope to empower construction professionals and urban communities with the agency to accelerate environmental and economic transformation.

By providing accessible climate education and employment pathways, we aspire to establish a replicable model of ecological, social and economic benefit for communities across the U.K.

The New Future Construction School sits at the heart of the wider New Future project – a network of social benefit enterprises which deliver the education, training and employment required for communities to thrive in a low-carbon and socially equitable society.

The network is an ecosystem of cooperative and community-governed enterprises tasked with generating the financial resources required to deliver the educational aims of the New Future Construction School.

Address Green Skills Gap:

Develop education, training and employment systems which address the climate crises at a fundamental and foundational level.

Equip construction sector actors with the skills required to preserve our existing, and decarbonise our future, built environment.

 

Accelerate Net-Zero:

Accelerate domestic and non-domestic energy demand reduction at scale.

Sustainably rehabilitate disused and at-risk buildings for community and public benefit.

 

Equitable Training and Employment:

Remove the socio-economic barriers to education, support, training, and employment pathways.

Develop a replicable model of revenue-generating community benefit enterprises which support the charitable aims of New Future Construction School.

 

Increase Representation:

Address structural inequalities by actively engaging currently marginalised groups including BAME, women, and young people.

Provide a safe, inclusive, and supportive training environment tailored to delivering an exemplar educational and learning experience.

 

Empower Residents and Communities:

Empower urban communities, with the agency to accelerate environmental, social and economic transformation.

Prioritise retrofit and regeneration to reallocate existing resources and foster security, health, and employment.

 

Low-Carbon Construction:

Develop the infrastructures required to enable bio-based and circular material use within domestic and non-domestic new-build, retrofit, and heritage projects.

Advance the regenerative, low-carbon and circular design agenda within the built environment sector.