Careers

Educators

The Building Plymouth partnership believes it’s vital to increase awareness of career opportunities in construction and the built environment with the next generation. To do this, we’ve joined forces with many great schools in the city to help us to spread the word. Let’s work together to transform the prospects for the city’s next generation of construction personnel.

The world of construction and education

As a city, the Building Plymouth Adopt a School’ programme is designed to engage, inspire and educate the future generation on the interesting world of construction. With STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) becoming an increasingly important part of the curriculum, we want to show how STEM topics and construction go together in the real world.

To find out more about the Building Plymouth Adopt a School programme read our relaunch news article here

Bringing the world of construction to life

Construction is an exciting industry which needs to be celebrated. To encourage both primary and secondary students, Building Plymouth worked alongside The Box and Arts University of Plymouth for STEAMfest 2025 – Mission Mammoth. The challenge which over 400 primary school – was to build a new landmark for Plymouth so Mildred the existing Mammoth exhibition in The Box can invite all her friends and visitors across the work to Plymouth – Making life an adventure. Through a series of activities centred around learning about mammoths, sustainability, shape and measure and landscaping and working with over 80 construction friends they found out all they needed to know to do this.

Watch this years videos to take a look at this incredible event.
Mission Mammoth 2025 – Design Brief Here
Mission Mammoth 2025 – Watch the event in action here

Plymouth schools careers lead joined is at our members meeting to accept their Building Plymouth Adopt a School programme certificates and meet their adopters.

Find out how we can work with your school to help increase the interest in construction and the built environment. speak to Morven who is the lead on schools activities. Get in touch by emailing morven.maclean@buildingplymouth.co.uk