#BU-03-29 Sustainable Construction and Development
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
Chartered Institute of Building AcademyDescription
Improve your understanding of sustainable construction and development
Sustainable development meets the needs of the present by carrying out activities that do not compromise future generations’ ability to meet their own needs.
On this course, you’ll learn about the obligations and actions that play a role in the concept and practice of sustainability in construction and development.
You’ll explore the need for environmental, economic and social sustainability, and the implications for the construction industry.
You’ll learn best practices from successful sustainability initiatives, and understand the challenge of achieving sustainability in the future.
What topics will you cover?
- The complexities of sustainability in construction and development of the built assets, together with challenges, importance, and impact of role performance.
- Environmental sustainability in construction and development of built assets, and the important roles of innovations, professionalism, ethics, culture and procurement practices and regulations.
- Economic sustainability and the roles of effective business cases, organisational size, dynamics of networks & integrated delivery; and procurement practices.
- Social sustainability in construction and development of built assets, and the roles of construction processes, outputs and outcomes on people and society.
- Lessons learned from good and best practices in sustainability, and how these could be embraced and taken-up, together with challenges and appropriate guidelines for implementation.
- Future challenges in sustainable development based on possible scenarios considering the level of success of current mitigation and adaptation measures.
Who will you learn with?
Associate Director – Academy, and looking forward to participating with learners construction related and broader topics of discussion
Dr Jørgensen is an Associate within SNC-Lavalin’s Atkins business. As a chartered engineer with 30 years’ experience, she provides sustainability leadership across the construction industry.
My name’s Carolyn and I’m the Training Coordinator at the CIOB. I’m responsible for many of the logistics involved in delivering our online programmes, as well as our face to face courses.
Who developed the course?
Working with industry and for industry, CIOB Academy helps support your employees on their development paths and make sure your company meets industry demands now and in the future.
What Will I Learn?
- Demonstrate understanding of the complexities of sustainability from generic and project specific perspectives, and the obligations of stakeholders.
- Evaluate the environmental considerations of sustainability and their implications on construction processes and practices
- Evaluate economic considerations of sustainability and their implications on construction processes and practices.
- Evaluate social considerations of sustainability and their implications on construction processes and practices.
- Demonstrate knowledge of lessons learned from good practices of sustainability initiatives, and better understand how these could be implemented in projects.
- Explain the nature of the task of attaining sustainability in the built environment in future, considering the most likely future scenario of the sustainable development agenda.
Topics for this course
Getting Started
Lets Begin Our Journey00:03:04
Study Guide
The Sustainability Discussion
Global Issues and Challenges
The Foundations of Sustainable Development
We need not only business development, but also innovation from sustainable development. The courses on the role of economic sustainability and effective business cases, organizational size, dynamic and integrated delivery and procurement practices of networks are my favorites. This course is pretty good.
This course reminds us of the lessons learned from good and best practices in sustainable development and how to accept and adopt them, as well as the challenges and appropriate guidelines for implementation. Well said, we should study hard.
It's great that this course takes us to learn best practices from successful sustainability initiatives and to understand the challenges of achieving sustainability in the future.
This course takes us through the need for environmental, economic and social sustainability, as well as its impact on the construction industry, and gives us an insight into the importance of sustainability.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is for anyone interested in sustainable construction and development, but may be of particular interest to those working in or studying construction and the wider built environment.