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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Sustainable Construction and Development
Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) and London South Bank University
This course improved awareness and understanding of the complexities and interrelationships of ideas, obligations, activities and actions that play a role in the concept and practice of sustainability. It took a project-based perspective to explore and discuss the roles and obligations of individuals, organisations, and the wider stakeholder communities, and the impact they can make in improving sustainability in the construction and development of built assets
This course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles.
5 weeks, 2 hours per week
Adrian Montague
Head of CIOB Academy
Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB)
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- 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.
Syllabus
- 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.
Accreditation
This course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles.
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Issued on 6th June 2022
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