Green skills: Learning for a sustainable future

Greener training: our courses
New training programs
Why Green skills are relevant
Our current Green initiatives
Contact us

Greener training: our courses

Green skills training may be delivered in the following industry areas:

Please check the individual course brouchures for courses that may offer Green skills modules.

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New training programs

Sydney Institute is developing new training programs for delivery in 2010. Register your interest for more information about the courses below:

Construction

Waste management on building sites
Basix understanding
Basix Assessor and reporting
Home sustainability assessment training
Material handling and erosion control.

Electrical

Energy management systems
Sustainable energy installations including photovoltaic and wind.

Plumbing

Rainwater tank installation, harvesting and storage
Grey water treatment
Wastewater reuse
Urban irrigation
Solar, heat pump and heat exchange hot water systems
Water efficient technologies
Low emission hot water systems.

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Why Green skills are relevant

Green products and services are a point of difference that customers are demanding.
Environmental training for your staff is good for your bottom line.
Learning to be sustainable at work improves staff morale.
Green skills reduce the risk of your business infringing regulations.
Green skills can help position your organisation to access new market opportunities brought about by a new low carbon economy.
There are financial incentives available.

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Our current Green initiatives

Our commitment, our workplace

Sydney Institute is determined to be a leader of training in Green skills. Through our Sydney Green Skills Alliance we will continue to transform our campus sites into showcases of best practice in Green skills and Green technologies.

Sydney Institute has a target of 5% reduction in resource consumption levels. This target is being achieved through participation in campaigns including Every Drop Counts, Sustainability Advantage, Earth Hour and Switch Off. We have also installed live electricity monitoring equipment.

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Greener business

Hino, a global enterprise with an established commitment to environmental activities, contracted Sydney Institute to provide Green skills training for their middle and senior level managers. This training resulted in Hino reducing resource wastage and complying with environmental regulations.

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Greener homes

Sydney Institute has responded to the Australian Government’s $4 billion Energy Efficient Homes Package by providing a series of short training programs to enable registration on the Installer Provider Register. The programs have been highly successful and have progressed from training individuals to providing customised training for large organisations.

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Hydraulic trade training centre

Sydney Institute’s Randwick College has commenced construction of a state-of-the-art Sustainable Hydraulic Trade Centre at Randwick College. The centre will enable the delivery of training in best practice Green building skills with a focus on hydraulic trades including water reuse, evacuated tube water heating and rain water harvesting.

The centre will include an environment management system (EMS) with a web presence that will provide real time data for measurement of utilities consumption. This data will be included in training delivery and it will also be available for learning and research purposes across industry and education sectors.

Sustainable design program

Sydney Institute’s Design Centre Enmore has developed a sustainable design program in partnership with the Australian Graphic Design Association. The program will assist small and medium enterprises in the selection of soya inks, paper stock, packaging and triple bottom line printers.

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Contact us

By telephone	1300 360 601
By email	si.greenskills (AT) tafensw.edu.au

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