Sustainable Construction

Sustainable Construction

Sustainable development is now integral to the business planning and management of organisations from a range of different sectors. This is particularly the case within the construction industry where there is continuing pressure to demonstrate that developments have been built according to the principles of sustainability.

The objectives of this one day course are as follows:

to provide an overview of sustainable development and sustainable construction
to suggest reasons for, and the benefits of, the sustainability agenda
to review and discuss key topics in sustainability

Course Outline:
Session 1 Course Introduction

Session 2 Introduction to Sustainable Development

Session 3 What Is Sustainable Construction?

Exercise 1 Sustainable Construction KPIs

Session 4 Benefits of Sustainable Construction

Video 1 ’Designs That Hold Water’

Session 5 ISO 14001 - Environmental Management Systems

Session 6 Waste Minimisation

Exercise 2 Sustainable Construction Policy

Session 8 Sustainable Construction Techniques

Video 2 ’Building a Cleaner Future’

Session 9 Course Review

Increasingly, ’environmentally sustainable’ materials are being requested and this raises questions as to what constitutes a sustainable material and how they can be sourced and selected? This course also looks at the methods behind some of the measurements of environmental performance, including Environmental Profiling.

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The challenge and opportunity to build more sustainably in Wales has never been higher. More and more public and private organisations are looking for information on how to build more sustainably and what this means in terms of the design, construction and management of our built environment as well as the people we employ, their skills, understanding and commitment.

A major aspect in delivering sustainable buildings in Wales is down to material selection and use. Wales has finite resources and as we know from the WWFstudies, if we keep consuming resources at the rate we are then we will need three planets. Therefore as part of this event we will be looking at timber and its uses in delivering sustainable buildings.

The second part of the event will be the launch of Woodknowlege and Woodsource Wales. These initiatives have been set up by the Welsh Forest Business Partnership and sponsored by the Forestry Commission Wales and the Welsh Assembly government. Their roles are to work with forestry and timber businesses in Wales to help innovate and market their products.

Wales Forest Business Partnership (WFBP) is an industry led group of businesses and other organisations across the forestry and wood processing sector which has been established to help strengthen the competitiveness of the sector as a whole, with the remit of delivering The Welsh Assembly Government¡¯s ’Woodlands for Wales’ strategy. WFBP will be launching two of its initiatives: Wood Knowledge Wales and Wood Source Wales. Sponsored by the Assembly and Forestry Commission Wales, the roles of the initiatives are to provide support to businesses and for the sector as a whole. WKW and WSW are providing businesses with opportunities for business development, providing specialist technical, innovation and marketing support to encourage the development of new products, processes and markets.

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