This online training course has been designed to provide an encompassing introduction of the SKArating scheme whether one is a client and wishes to know how SKArating can drive and support sustainability efforts; project team members who wish to understand how to work with this scheme; or professionals looking to take the next step on the SKArating Professional Pathways.
This online learning course is essential learning for all Architects, Interior Designers, Contractors, M&E Engineers, Project Managers, Portfolio/Asett Managers, Estimators/Quantity Surveyors and Environmental Consultants and supply chain specialists who wish to fully engage with sustainability drives and feel confident working with environmental assessment methodologies.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Build a base of your Sustainability knowledge and what it means to aim and deliver a sustainable fit-out project and space.
- Understand the appropriate projects to use SKArating on.
- Understand the SKArating philosophy, assessment methodology and general governance of the scheme.
- Learn the key characteristics of the scheme, how to achieve a specific rating, what tools and documents are available to refer to and how to read them.
- Understand how to apply the SKArating process to a one-off interior fit-out project, across a property portfolio/estate and on a rollout of branded stores.
- Understand how to assess issues with evidence examples, as compliant or not.
- Explore working with the project team and accessing details of an assessment via the online platform.
- Find out about SKArating Pilot assessments for sector schemes not currently live or for international project locations that add to options for clients.
There is on-going testing of your knowledge throughout the lessons which forms part of the learning process. At the end of the training course there is an opportunity to sit an exam and obtain the course certificate.
This course is the 1st step on the SKArating Professional Pathways. Delegates that wish to follow the SKArating Professional Pathways to become either an Assessor or a Competent Professional are required to sit this course and pass the final exam before taking next steps. The online exam is open book, multiple choice and forms part of the learning process. It is time restricted and must be passed within two months, but it can be taken as many times as you wish within this window. Following this time period, extensions can be purchased at extra cost per month of extension.
Course price includes VAT.