Eco-friendly housebuilder launches graduate and apprentice programmes
Sheffield property company Sky-House Co has launched its own graduate and apprentice career programmes.
The company’s future pipeline now includes more than 300 homes across five sites for the next three years with more on the drawing board.
Sky-House co founder and director David Cross said, “We want to help all people in our communities live better lives, not just by creating great places to live but a great company to work with and for. “As part of that philosophy, we have launched graduate and apprentice career opportunities across all aspects of the company for anyone who is passionate about housing and the way we should live.
“We want site managers, local trades people, suppliers, dreamers and big believers and above everything else we want to build a trusted supply chain of award-winning people. We are interested in nurturing and developing people at all levels of the business, with an apprenticeship scheme that we are running in conjunction with Sheffield College.”
The Sky-House concept is based around the hugely acclaimed back-to-back housing model devised by the architects at Sheffield’s CODA Studios and creates sensitively dense, beautiful and naturally eco-friendly homes complete with their signature roof gardens, terraces and expansive windows.
The new generation of Sky-House properties are all 100% electric – well ahead of new government property regulations set for 2025 – and include as standard app-enabled/Wi-Fi heating systems, EV charging points and solar power.
Each home comes fitted with an eco-friendly indoor heat pump that recycles waste energy from inside the home and converts it to low-cost renewable hot water. For every 1kW of energy consumed, the system can produce up to 4.5kW of thermal energy. Outside there is a compact front garden, home zone parking courts and communal play areas for children.
In addition, all Sky-House Co developments are carbon-neutral in construction with 100% of carbon generated offset each year.
The second phase of the Sky-House development at Waverley is now well under way and Sky-House at Oughtibridge Mill is nearing completion. The company is also about to start work on the first Sky-House site in Sheffield city centre, close to Devonshire Green.
