The Supply Chain Sustainability School has secured £285,000 of industry co-investment from the UK Commission for Employment & Skills (UKCES) to help expand into FM.
The plan is to create an online sustainability support resource for FM suppliers, contractors and clients. Partners in the FM School include contractors Carillion, BAM, Cofely UK, Emcor, Interserve, Kier, Skanska and Vinci, and Sodexo.
Carillion chief sustainability officer David Picton is chairman of the school’s new FM leadership group. He said: “Delivering consistently well on environmental, social and economic responsibilities has become key to balanced, long-term growth and responsible business. Challenges are particularly intense in the complex and pressurised context of the FM and Services supply chain, so the School’s free resources and dynamic knowledge development will be ‘business critical’ in supporting suppliers to meet exacting requirements of clients, users, wider stakeholders and the communities they serve.”
The Supply Chain Sustainability School was launched in 2012 to provide online learning and has more than 7,000 members, with backing from 17 of the UK's leading main contractors.
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