Designing the Future Workforce: Meet the Experts

Design Engineer Construct! (“DEC”) was born from Building Schools for the Future, connecting young people with the professionals designing and delivering their own schools. Seventeen years later, the challenge of building the future workforce remains just as urgent.

Join Alison Watson of Class Of Your Own, Andrew Dutton of Arcadis and DEC students and teachers for an informal lunchtime conversation about how education estates projects can do more than create great buildings: they can create genuine pathways into surveying, design, engineering, construction and digital careers.

Hear what employers need from the next generation and explore practical ways that schools, clients, consultants and contractors can turn live projects into meaningful classroom learning, work experience and future employment opportunities.

Free lunch provided to those registered under the Future Leaders Programme, provided by Arcadis