Cemex UK launched its Sustainable Construction Academy earlier this year, via its Cemex University learning and development platform helping to develop future talent across the industry. The aim of this new learning programme is to demonstrate how lower carbon building can support the sustainability requirements of a wide range of building and construction projects understanding across the building and construction sectors. After a successful launch in the UK, Cemex is now taking this wider across the EMEA region.
This is very first time that the Cemex University platform has invited an external audience to participate in its learning programmes. The Sustainable Construction Academy utilises the significant knowledge and expertise Cemex has of producing construction materials with more sustainable attributes. These include products from across its Vertua portfolio that demonstrate either a lower carbon embodiment, the use of recycled materials, improved thermal efficiency or increased water conservation and design optimisation.
Its free to register via https://cemexuniversity.com/Course/SustainableConstructionAcademy and, as well as gaining a valuable insight into the benefits that can be achieved through the use of more sustainable materials and products, participants will also receive a digital certificate upon completion. The learning programme is aimed at architects, specifiers, engineers, design consultants, project managers and others from across the industry.
Mike Higgins, National Technical Manager at Cemex, explains that, “The Sustainable Construction Academy is an exciting new learning and development platform that will provide the wider industry with a better understanding of how innovative and more sustainable concrete solutions can help enhance project value and support environmental certification goals.”
It provides a wealth of knowledge around concrete with sustainable attributes, the potential of its capabilities, integration from the design stage through construction, and how these solutions can help increase the possibility of earning points in BREEAM (the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method), LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), and EDGE (Excellence in Design for Greater Efficiencies) certifications.”
Cemex University is Cemex’s award-winning learning and development platform for its 40,000+ global workforce and aims to position learning as a high-impact catalyst for growth and transformation. It offers employees learning and development programmes aligned to the values and strategic priorities of the organisation, taking critical business capabilities and translating them into specific learning needs.
Aligned to Cemex’s wider ‘Future in Action’ programme, which aims to achieve net zero by 2050 through a combined approach to tackling climate change, the learning platform offers a number of courses for Cemex employees that increase skills and knowledge relating to more sustainable business practises.
This platform further strengthens Cemex’s commitment to skills development and knowledge-sharing across the wider industry within the area of how to incorporate lower-carbon construction materials into building and construction projects.