Sustainable Futures
- The course focuses on sustainability in the business agenda.
- Understanding and skills in sustainability are crucial for success.
- Sustainability integrates economic, social, and environmental policies.
- Organizations need to become more eco-efficient for resource efficiency.
- The course explores how construction professionals can drive innovation.
Overview
This one-day course focuses on the importance of sustainability in the business agenda for success in the 21st century. It explores the concept of sustainability as integrating economic, social, and environmental policies for a better quality of life. The course emphasizes resource efficiency and the need for organizations to become more eco-efficient by creating value with less impact, innovating, and meeting consumer demand for environmentally friendly goods and services. It also discusses sustainable development in the built environment and the role of construction professionals in meeting societal needs while harmonizing economic, social, and environmental growth.
Who should attend
Construction Professionals
Course Content
Course duration: 1 Day
Cost: £295 + VAT
Overview
The sustainability agenda is developing faster than any other part of the business agenda, with the relevant understanding and skills likely to be necessary conditions for success in the 21st century.
Many organisations find the term sustainability abstract, a concept with which it is difficult to connect. At its heart lies the simple idea of integrating economic, social and environmental policies to ensure a better quality of life for everyone, now and for generations to come.
Resource efficiency lies at the heart of the sustainability challenge and organisations need to become more “eco-efficient” by
• creating more value with less impact;
• seizing opportunities to innovate and to enhance competitiveness;
• making better use of physical, human and financial resources; and
• meeting growing consumer demand for more environmentally and socially acceptable goods and services.
Much architecture succeeds because it delights the human spirit, has great functionality and is secure in its urban or rural context. Sustainable development in the built environment has to be a process driven by the narrowing gap between the economic realities of life-cycle costing and the ecological necessities of life-cycle assessment. Consequently, innovation and creativity on an unprecedented scale will be required to yield new processes, new methodologies and new ways of managing the future role of consulting engineers.
This two day course examines ways in which construction professionals could take a central role in finding new ways of meeting people’s needs, expectations and aspirations whilst ensuring that the economy, society and the built and natural environments grow and develop in harmony.
