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Special Interest Group - Business Skills in the Built Environment

Introduction

Enterprise & Commercial Learning for Built Environment Graduates

The development of an "enterprise" culture has been recognised as the key to maintaining and enhancing the quality of life within the UK over the longer term. As a result, the UK government has provided significant resources to improve links between the Higher Education sector and the industrial and commercial sectors. The key to this improvement is the provision of suitable learning opportunities at University level to ensure that graduates have both an awareness of and the skills, to make a useful contribution to a knowledge based economy. The government has placed particular emphasis on the need for engineering and science graduates to obtain such skills and an awareness of the importance of enterprise and wealth creation to society.

All Built Environment departments now need to provide teaching which will bring business skills into the curriculum. However, given academics’ limited personal expertise of commercial environments, this area of provision is seen as particularly problematic.

To address this need, CEBE has funded a special interest group, based at the University of Sheffield, to provide a concise, searchable list of resources for the teaching of business and commercial skills to students in universities.
The resources included have been selected as they have been designed specifically for teaching students in a University environment. The database is organised by key business skills. If you are interested in using any of the materials listed, you will need to contact the appropriate contact shown at the end of the resource description.

Search the Key Business Skills Database

The Business & Commercial Skills Database has been developed by the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield, courtesy of CEBE SIG funds.