Climate Change for Construction Professionals – 2 Days

A course identifying future challenges for professionals engaged in all aspects of construction.

Tutors:
• Professor Robert Jackson CEng FICE CWEM FCIWEM MAE
• Dr Kieran Dineen CEng FICE FGS MAE

Preamble:

The Said Business School at the University of Oxford, together with HEC Paris (École des hautes études commerciales de Paris), one of the world’s best international business schools established in 1881, is delivering an Executive Masters in Consulting & Coaching for Change. This is aimed at senior staff in order that they become “Ready to create sustainable change. ”

Similarly, the Chartered Institution of Water & Environmental Management (CIWEM) is co-delivering with The University of Essex Business School, a Masterclass in the Circular Economy. In a 1976 research report to the European Commission the vision of a circular economy was proposed in which its impact on job creation, competitiveness, resource savings, and waste prevention was discussed. This was ultimately reported in a 1982 publication Jobs for Tomorrow: The Potential for Substituting Manpower for Energy. A Circular Economy is an economic system aimed at the continual use of resources by employing systems of recycling, reuse, remanufacturing and refurbishment to create a closed system that minimises resource input and the creation of waste.

However, such well-meaning initiatives in sustainability can be easily undermined by climate change.

Rationale:

The physical environment within which the construction professional operates is likely to change. Increased vulnerabilities and risks to infrastructure, which currently underpins our modern, life-sustaining society, will undoubtedly impact on the role of the developer, operator, engineer, architect, surveyor, planner and lawyer supporting the construction sector.