Environmental Practitioner Apprentice
Troup Bywaters + Anders
London (NW1 1BU)
Closes on Tuesday 31 March 2026
Posted on 5 February 2026
Contents
Summary
The role is part of a professional team of engineers & scientists, working with varied clients in many sectors of built environment. The aim is to improve sustainable performance of buildings by analysing design solutions or enhancements. Third party tools and methodologies give transparency, rigour and accreditation to the works.
- Wage
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£25,207 a year
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Following completion of the apprenticeship, and suitability to available roles, a permanent position would be offered. Many of our most valuable permanent staff, Partners and Board members started as apprentices.
- Training course
- Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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9am - 5pm Monday - Friday (including day release for Degree Apprenticeship).
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 September 2026
- Duration
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5 years
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
TB+A are a building services engineering consultancy based across the UK.
- As building services engineers/professionals we develop solutions for buildings to enable their effective operations, for instance solutions to identify how a building can be designed/upgraded to achieve net zero carbon performance
- The apprentice role is within the Sustainability and Building Performance Team at TB+A, based out of our London Office, a team of 13 people as of Feb 2026
- You report to the teams' partner, Mark Richardson, but would also be assigned a day-to-day line manager and mentor
- You would be responsible for developing solutions for our clients from beginning to end, including attending workshops/meetings, developing initiatives and solutions, communicating these oral presentations, written reports or updating platforms and assessing the outcomes of these projects
Within this team, typical daily duties would include:
- Contribution to building design/operations teams on sustainability initiatives
- Meeting with clients to progress projects
- Visting buildings to undertake energy/environmental audits
- Developing strategies to improve building performance and sustainable operations and undertaking engineering/scientific analysis to validate the solutions
- Developing long term road maps for building performance e.g. net zero carbon roadmaps and undertaking engineering/scientific analysis to validate the roadmaps
- Working with 3rd party building accreditation schemes, such as BREEAM, to assess building design/operations and deliver these certifications for our clients. Over time professional qualifications under these schemes would be likely
- Review the performance of previously undertaken works to assess their achievements
Where you'll work
183 Eversholt Street
London
NW1 1BU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY
Training course
Environmental practitioner (Degree) (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Apply complex environmental principles and methods to projects that integrate with the built or natural environment.
- Design, develop or manage safe and sustainable environmental solutions, be able to identify challenges these solutions pose, and assess the opportunities to deliver practical solutions that integrate with the built or natural environment.
- Balance views of potentially conflicting drivers related to environmental, social and financial constraints, and demonstrate critical analysis in the design, development or management of environmental projects.
- Apply and comply with policies and regulations, including those relating to the environment, health and safety, legal, planning and equality and diversity, and with their organisation’s formal procedures and practices.
- Determine and manage the collection, analysis, and evaluation of data used in the development or delivery of environmental solutions drawing appropriate conclusions and making practical recommendations.
- Apply, analyse and evaluate a broad range of environmental methods (utilising appropriate software and digital solutions), to inform and enable decision making within the development or delivery of environmental solutions. This includes assessing data suitability, validity, quality, and accuracy relative to its intended application.
- Effectively and safely manage tasks or projects, within environmental, legal, contractual and statutory requirements, to agreed time and resource budgets, and to agreed quality standards, through the application of appropriate project management tools and techniques.
- Deliver high quality accurate, well-structured documents and recommendations for the work for which they are responsible and are appropriate to those for whom they are intended.
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues and support and guide team members to enable them to achieve the team’s objectives as well as their own. Actively seek and provide feedback, support decision making processes, and manage any conflicts that may arise in their work with integrity, fairness and consistency in decision making.
- Communicate effectively orally and in writing in both formal and informal contexts, and with a variety of stakeholders. Listen actively to ensure the views of others are considered appropriately.
- Manage their own work independently within the limits of their ability, authority and responsibility, making use of support and specialist expertise when appropriate. Seek feedback on their performance, looking for ways to improve it.
- Develop their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD records and develop an extended network to support their professional development and maintain the required standard of, ethical behaviours and codes of conduct, associated with the environmental profession.
- Apply complex environmental principles and methods to projects that integrate with the built or natural environment.
- Design, develop or manage safe and sustainable environmental solutions, be able to identify challenges these solutions pose, and assess the opportunities to deliver practical solutions that integrate with the built or natural environment.
- Balance views of potentially conflicting drivers related to environmental, social and financial constraints, and demonstrate critical analysis in the design, development or management of environmental projects.
- Apply and comply with policies and regulations, including those relating to the environment, health and safety, legal, planning and equality and diversity, and with their organisation’s formal procedures and practices.
- Determine and manage the collection, analysis, and evaluation of data used in the development or delivery of environmental solutions drawing appropriate conclusions and making practical recommendations.
- Apply, analyse and evaluate a broad range of environmental methods (utilising appropriate software and digital solutions), to inform and enable decision making within the development or delivery of environmental solutions. This includes assessing data suitability, validity, quality, and accuracy relative to its intended application.
- Effectively and safely manage tasks or projects, within environmental, legal, contractual and statutory requirements, to agreed time and resource budgets, and to agreed quality standards, through the application of appropriate project management tools and techniques.
- Deliver high quality accurate, well-structured documents and recommendations for the work for which they are responsible and are appropriate to those for whom they are intended.
- Develop and maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues and support and guide team members to enable them to achieve the team’s objectives as well as their own. Actively seek and provide feedback, support decision making processes, and manage any conflicts that may arise in their work with integrity, fairness and consistency in decision making.
- Communicate effectively orally and in writing in both formal and informal contexts, and with a variety of stakeholders. Listen actively to ensure the views of others are considered appropriately.
- Manage their own work independently within the limits of their ability, authority and responsibility, making use of support and specialist expertise when appropriate. Seek feedback on their performance, looking for ways to improve it.
- Develop their own professional competence, regularly updating and reviewing their CPD records and develop an extended network to support their professional development and maintain the required standard of, ethical behaviours and codes of conduct, associated with the environmental profession.
Training schedule
At the end of this apprenticeship, you will have completed and achieved a Degree Apprenticeship in Environmental Practitioner which includes an Environmental Science BSc (Hons) Degree awarded by Kingston University.
Teaching will take place at Kingston University Penrhyn Road Campus, Kingston Upon Thames, KT1 2EE.
The Degree Apprenticeship will include relevant field trips to support your learning.
You will attend Kingston University one day a week although there may be occasions when additional attendance will be required for specific purposes.
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade Grade 4 - 9)
- Mathematics (grade Grade 4 - 9)
A Level in:
- Geography (grade C)
- Maths (grade C)
- Sciences (grade C)
BTEC in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Mathematics
- Science
- Geography
- Sustainability Awareness
- Strategic Thinker
- Positive Attitude
Other requirements
The role will involve a mix of office and site-based tasks. It is worth noting that this can include working from building sites/operational buildings for long of periods of time.
About this employer
Troup Bywaters + Anders is a building services consultancy, based in 8 offices in the UK and Poland. We also offer services relating to the whole life of a building, including Asset / Facilities Management and Building and Energy Performance.
After this apprenticeship
Subsequent to the successful completion of the apprenticeship, and suitability to available roles, a permanent position would be offered with TB+A.
Typically, former apprentices are some of our most valuable permanent staff, with a large number of our Partners and Board having started out as apprentices with TB+A.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
KINGSTON UNIVERSITY
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000013415.
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Closes on Tuesday 31 March 2026