AIA UK Sustainability Series - Upskilling For a Transforming Construction Sector with the RIBA Climate Guide
When: Wednesday 29 May 2024 @ 07:30 (Eastern US Time)/ 12:30 (UK time)
Where: Online
CES Credits - Estimated 1.0 LU/ HSW for AIA Members
Speaker
Mina Hasman, RIBA, ARB, FRSA, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, BREEAM AP
Sustainability Director, SOM | Founder, Climate Framework
Description
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 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 requirements defined by the RIBA 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. Uniquely, the book highlights interlinkages that exist among all of these priority areas to enable stakeholders across the built environment value chain to make holistically informed decisions.
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.
