Skills Academy for Sustainable Manufacturing and Innovation, Sunderland

The Skills Academy for Sustainable Manufacturing and Innovation (SASMI) is a world class centre to train workers for green industry in the North East. The sustainable centre, based at Nissan’s Washington plant, will prepare the region’s workforce in the skills they need to work in the low carbon industries of the future.

The centre provides:

A training infrastructure for sustainable manufacturing and the low carbon vehicle industry
A world class learning facilityfor employers, apprentices and students, providing new skills for new jobs
Companies across the region to access a full range of skills and training provision
Deliver best practice from Nissan and the automotive sector.
The centre will allow individuals to be trained in the new ‘green collar’ economy and develop new qualifications, harnessing the expertise in this field that Gateshead College has already established.
Designed by members of the team whilst at Dewjo’c Architects.

Client: Gateshead College
Construction Value: £5.1 million
Completion: 2012