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Getting Started

Signed up as a member and not sure where to start? Check out our breakdown of recommended actions and resources below.

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Start Self Assessment Benchmark Your Knowledge

Complete our free self assessment to get your bespoke action plan today.

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1. Sign up for free online

If you haven’t already registered online, it only takes ~5 minutes. Once logged into the School website, you gain access to over 4,000 resources for different sustainability, offsite, lean, digital, procurement, people and management topics, including CPD-accredited events. Sign up now >>

2. Complete a confidential assessment

Assess your knowledge as a team or individual. Note that corporate assessments should reflect your organisation’s collective knowledge. Assess now >>

3. Access your action plan

Once you’ve completed an assessment, identify your knowledge gaps and receive a 10-point action plan with recommended resources tailored to enhance your learning and improvement.

4. Download your membership level badge

Advance through our different membership levels and display your membership badge in tenders, pitches, presentations, email signatures, webpages and other marketing materials. Learn more >>

5. Track your progress

Re-assess at any time to create new action plans, demonstrating your continuous improvement in sustainability to yourself, your business and your clients.

6. Learning Pathways

Complete a curated learning pathway or allocate specific resources to target audiences, and track progress with badges and downloadable reports. Learn more >>

Welcome to the School

Watch this 5-minute video for a refresher on what School membership has to offer – including accessing our resource library, dashboards, assessments, and action plans.

Welcome to the Supply Chain Sustainability School

Watch our Sustainability Shorts

Our Sustainability Shorts series are short animated videos that provide you with digestible introductions to core sustainability topics. Check out a selection of our top Sustainability Shorts below:

ALL RESOURCES
Air Quality

Air Quality

Air Quality – Sustainability Short

Video

What factors can affect air quality, and how poor air quality can impact our health.
Beginner
Duration 10 minutes
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Biodiversity and Ecology

Biodiversity and Ecology

Biodiversity – Sustainability Short

Video

An introduction to the important issues involved with the built environment and biodiversity.
Beginner
Duration 10 minutes
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Energy and Carbon

Energy and Carbon

Climate Change and Carbon – Sustainability Short

Video

What do we mean by ‘Climate Change’ and how can we reduce our carbon emissions?

Beginner
Duration 5 minutes
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Modern Slavery

Modern Slavery

Modern Slavery – Sustainability Short

Modern Slavery - Can you spot the signs?
Beginner
Duration 2 minutes
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Energy and Carbon

Energy and Carbon

Science Based Targets – Sustainability Short

Video

You can't manage what you don't measure

Intermediate
Duration 5 minutes
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Community

Training and Skills

Social Value – Sustainability Short

Video

What is Social Value? How can my business deliver Social Value? Watch to find out more! 

Beginner
Duration 5 minutes
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Sustainability Strategy

Sustainability Strategy

Sustainability Strategy – Sustainability Short

Video

How to develop your own and why.

Beginner
Duration 5 minutes
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Waste and Resource Efficiency

Waste and Resource Efficiency

Waste Management – Sustainability Short

Video

A short animation about how to reduce waste.
Beginner
Duration 2 minutes
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Getting Started FAQs

You should log in on a regular basis as we are always updating content and announcing new training.
We recommend re-assessing every 6 months to maintain your level of membership. To learn more about the levels of membership click here.

We reward and recognise companies based on their levels of engagement and interaction with the School. Below is an outline of our membership level achievement scheme:

  • Registered: Has created an account but has not undertaken an assessment or viewed any resources or attended any School training

  • Member: Used at least one resource in the past 12 months. This can be either: completing an assessment, coming to one of our events, or accessing an online resource

  • Bronze: Has completed an assessment in the past 12 months and has viewed 5 resources in the past 6 months

  • Silver: Has completed a re-assessment in the past 12 months and has viewed 5 resources in the past 6 months

  • Gold: Has completed a re-assessment in the past 12 months (with an increased knowledge score), has viewed 10 resources in the past 6 months, and has either completed a case study or spoken at an event


Find out more about membership levels >>

The assessment tool is a series of statements or questions which is used to benchmark your knowledge on key sustainability topics within the built environment. It is used to identify any gaps in your knowledge and direct you to the most relevant resources.

You can complete an assessment in any of our topics of learning, including:

  • Digital maturity

  • Offsite processes

  • Management competencies

  • Sustainable procurement

  • People matters

  • Lean and operational efficiency

  • Core sustainability


There is also an assessment available to support companies wishing to engage with the sustainability priorities of National Highways.

Completing an assessment will generate an action plan, made up of ten recommended resources relevant to your trade category, industry sector, company size and knowledge improvement areas.

An action plan is a tailored list of ten recommend resources generated after completing an assessment.

Our assessment tools consider your trade category and industry sector to create a bespoke action plan based on your responses and knowledge improvement areas.

To gain a bespoke action plan you need to complete an assessment. The assessment tool is located on your dashboard.

You can either take a personal assessment to benchmark your own knowledge, or a company assessment on behalf of your organisation. Company assessments can be completed as part of a team discussion or through your own evaluation of your company’s current skillset.

As a member, you can set up learning pathways for your internal colleagues. You can also make the most of the public learning pathways set up by the School (job role / topic specific etc). To view our publicly available learning pathways set up by the School, please scroll down to the 'My Learning Pathways' section and then click, 'View Available Pathways'. You will then see at least 36 self-enrol pathways available covering a wide variety of sustainability topics.

 

You can manage your contact preferences at any time from your personal dashboard by selecting the "view my profile" option just underneath your avatar.

If you still need help, get in touch at [email protected].
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