ACW Mourns Passing of Green Built Environment Expert, Prof. Colin Patrick Gleeson
Colin Gleeson was a Reader at the University of Westminster’s School of Architecture and the Built Environment (UK)
Addressing climate change opens the door to developing a revitalized building industry characterized by a highly skilled, thermally literate workforce that utilizes its knowledge and skills to achieve an important social objective. Successful implementation of low carbon construction requires up-skilling the workforce combined with a major reorganization of the labour process. Thus, the overall aim of the Built Environment Working Group is to research the labour and labour process implications of transitioning to low carbon, energy efficient infrastructure and living spaces.
Colin Gleeson was a Reader at the University of Westminster’s School of Architecture and the Built Environment (UK)
Presentation by Linda Clarke, Melahat Sahin-Dikmen, Colin Gleeson, ProBE (Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment), University of Westminster, at ACW All-Team Meeting’s Researcher Presentations.
Governments in all countries are experiencing significant difficulties in implementing the green building code.
The role of trade unions in the transition to low carbon construction: examples from Denmark, Germany, Italy and UK/Scotland.
City Building is a ground-breaking not-for profit building organization with an in-house training centre, a large apprenticeship scheme, and a highly unionized, directly employed workforce.
This workshop addresses this debate and is concerned in particular with the active role of workers and the trade unions in this transition, including examples from the built environment of successful intervention.
Architects are one of the key construction professions, and in this report, author and architect John Mummé explores the training of students at Canadian architecture schools – the professionals of the future.
These papers are part of a series being produced for the ACW’s Built Environment Working Group—chaired by John Calvert —which is investigating the BC Insulators union’s efforts to promote a major climate initiative in the construction industry.
There is considerable evidence of a significant gap between the needed skill sets for low carbon construction and the capacity of the training and apprenticeship systems to deliver appropriate skills – including climate literacy – to the construction workforce, both in Canada and internationally.
This paper examines the efforts of one Canadian building trades’ union, the BC Insulators, to influence the culture and climate change policies of the construction industry in British Columbia.