Upskilling for a Transforming Construction Sector with the RIBA Climate Guide The built environment has a vital role to play in responding to climate and biodiversity emergencies. There is a pressing need for all the industry professionals to acquire the requisite knowledge and skills to design and deliver built environments that respond to increasing demands of our world, while ensuring holistic, sustainable outcomes are consistently achieved. In this Cover to Cover session, sustainability expert and author Mina Hasman will introduce her new book - the RIBA Climate Guide - created to help build knowledge and skills around the climate literacy mandatory competence which RIBA defined in 2021. The RIBA Climate Guide maps out the essential background knowledge around climate science, international agreements, legislations, commitments, and roadmaps, with the aim to equip all built-environment professionals with the key information required to mitigate impacts of climate change in their day-to-day practice. Contextualising the climate emergency and the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 within the built environment landscape, the Guide is structured around the six, core themes of the Climate Framework which include Human Factors, Circular Economy, Energy and Carbon, Water, Ecology and Biodiversity, Connectivity and Transport. The RIBA Climate Guide presents a collection of short, building- and urban-scale case studies, which illustrate real-life applications of design strategies and industry-wide tools, as well as standards that are deployed in climate-conscious built environments all around the world. This session will: Raise your awareness on the construction sector’s current knowledge and skills around climate change Help you to understand the RIBA Climate Guide’s overall structure and its overarching content Support you in gaining insights on some of the high-performance design strategies from sample-built case studies SpeakerMina Hasman Mina leads SOM’s sustainability and wellbeing daily operations and long-term vision for achieving excellence in practice. She has experience in a wide variety of projects in Europe, UK, Middle East, and Asia, bringing a greater understanding of the implications for sustainable and equitable design in different climatic, social, and regulatory contexts. As a recognised expert in her field, Mina has been elected to, and is actively involved in the UKGBC Board of Trustees, RIBA Council and the Practice & Policy Committee, CAA Council and the Practice & Policy Committee (as the Chair), LETI Steering Committee, UNEP/GlobalABC’s COP Task Force, CIC Climate Change Committee (as the Deputy Chair), WorldGBC Advancing Net Zero Steering Committee, CIBSE Intelligent Buildings (as Vice Chair), and IWBI’s Health Equity Advisory Group. Mina regularly contributes to the wider climate change, sustainability, and wellbeing debate in her role as tutor at various academic institutions, as well as regular speaking appearances at many international events. She is also the author of the RIBA Climate Guide - the book structured around the Climate Framework - which equips the built environment professionals with key knowledge to mitigate the impacts of climate change.Please note Each recording will expire 12 months after enrolling onto the module This session was recorded from the live webinar on 7 February 2024 For more information on this course, or if there are no places available, please email us, or call +44 (0)20 7307 5355 to talk to a member of the team. Please view the Terms and Conditions for more information.
