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Sustainable Construction & Development Course – FutureLearn

Gain valuable insight into sustainable construction and development and learn best practices from sustainability initiatives Improve your understanding of sustainable construction and development Sustainable development meets the needs of the present by carrying out activities that do not compromise future generations ability to meet their own needs On this course youll learn about the obligations and actions that play a role in the concept and practice of sustainability in construction and development Youll explore the need for environmental economic and social sustainability and the implications for the construction industry Youll learn best practices from successful sustainability initiatives and understand the challenge of achieving sustainability in the future 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

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