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GRAHAM

How to build a Green Career in Construction! (10am-12pm)

Virtual insight day

Application deadline: 17th November 2023

Ages: 14 - 19

1st December 2023 - 1st December 2023

10:00 - 12:00

1 day
Nationwide

This virtual opportunity is open UK Wide but priority will be given to Scottish students adjacent to the GRAHAM Clyde Waterfront and Renfrew Riverside Projects.


Leave a lasting legacy not your Carbon Footprint - UN Sustainable Development Goals and what it means to you...


The combination of construction and using eco-friendly methods to build homes, offices, and factories is a great way to improve and sustain the world’s environment. If being part of this new and growing industry interests you, we would love to see you at our Insight Session!


At GRAHAM Construction we actively promote sustainable business and constantly developing ways of reducing our Carbon Footprint. 


Our people have a range of different qualifications and skills including civil, mechanical engineering, project management, communications, quantity surveying. 


We have the skills, technology and expertise to help people turn their ideas into commercial products that reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and implement goals to calculate our Carbon Footprint.


• Learn about how using these resources better helps towards maintaining a healthier planet 

• Test your knowledge of your own carbon footprint and what you can do to reduce this more by taking our quiz 

• Learn more about the research taking place that will help us to combat climate change and pollution and the Un sustainable development goals

• Understand how to shape a responsible sustainable future.

• Take part in our challenge to come up with your own sustainable business idea

When applying, answer the following questions

  • What do you already know about our organisation?
  • Which of your skills would you like to improve?
  • What attracted you to this opportunity?

More about what we do:

GRAHAM is a privately-owned company that specialises in the delivery of award-winning construction, civil engineering, interior fit-out, facilities management and investment projects. It operates from a network of 23 regional offices throughout the UK and Ireland, and employs over 2,200 staff.

Organisational website:

www.graham.co.uk

Experience You Will Gain:

  • Explore the qualifications and skills to build a green career in construction
  • Meet the team at Graham who are working in this evolving sector
  • Test your knowledge of your own carbon footprint
  • Learn how you can shape a responsible sustainable future for the construction industry

Skills You Will Gain:

  • Listening
  • Speaking
  • Problem Solving
  • Creativity
  • Staying Positive
Apply here