North East Construction Sector Careers Toolkit – Sustainable Housing

The decarbonisation of homes to achieve net zero presents a huge opportunity for construction businesses, creating demand for a new set of skills and services to help make homes and buildings more sustainable. 

These resources have been designed to be used as starter/plenary sessions for subject lessons, connecting to relevant topics within the scheme of work or related subject specific skills. There are links to additional resources or optional extension activities which could support a full careers lesson if desired. 


Teacher guide - Careers in construction – Sustainable housing

Lesson presentation - Careers in construction – Sustainable housing


Useful links

The Plan

The North East Strategic Economic Plan: Creating 100,000 more and better jobs for the North East economy.

North East Evidence Hub

The North East Evidence Hub brings together key data about the region and provides tools to help residents, businesses, education establishments and policy makers to make use of this data in a simple and accessible way.

National Careers Service

Explore different careers in construction and trades on the National Careers Service website. 

Options for young people

We’ve brought together information on all the options for young people so teachers can help students find out about the full range of opportunities available to them.

North East Provider Portal

Our provider portal provides details of short courses, study programmes and apprenticeships located all over the North East.