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Build Knowledge & Confidence

Sustainability is becoming part of everyone’s role in the built environment. Whether you’re new to the topic, want to raise your awareness of an unfamiliar area, or need to refresh your knowledge and get up to speed with the latest thinking, UKGBC’s learning helps you understand the sustainability challenges shaping our industry and what they mean in practice. Build and broaden your knowledge at your own pace, explore the issues most relevant to you, and develop the confidence to take your next step.

Who is this learning for?

Our Build Knowledge & Confidence learning portfolio is designed for anyone who wants to develop, broaden or refresh their understanding of sustainability in the built environment. Whether you’re building your knowledge from the ground up or getting up to speed with an evolving area of sustainability, you can choose the learning that’s relevant ot you.

It may be right for you if you:

  • Are relatively new to sustainability.
  • Need to understand sustainability as part of a wider role.
  • Want to raise your and others’ awareness of a sustainability issue or topic.
  • Want to build knowledge in an unfamiliar sustainability topic.
  • Want to refresh your existing knowledge or get up to speed with the latest thinking.
  • Want a clear foundation before progressing to more specialist learning.
  • Need accessible learning that can fit around your work.
  • Want to create a shared language around sustainability within your organisation.
You don’t need to be a sustainability specialist. Our learning is designed to make complex subjects accessible, relevant and connected to the realities of the built environment.

What will you develop?

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Understand the sustainability principles

and challenges shaping the built environment.
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Build confidence

with key concepts and terminology
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Refresh existing knowledge

and keep up with evolving thinking and practice.
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Understand why

different sustainability issues matter.
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Recognise how

sustainability connects to your role and organisation.
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Identify actions

you can take and areas where you want to develop further.

Learn in ways that work for you

Build, broaden or refresh your knowledge through flexible learning in a range of formats.

  • DIGITAL LEARNING: Develop your understanding through accessible online learning that you can complete around your work:
    • Learn via your Inbox: build your sustainability knowledge through UKGBC’s Sustainability Essentials for the Built Environment email course. Explore here
    • Carbon Reduction Essentials in the Built Environment: Understand how the built environment contributes to climate change and how sustainable buildings can lead to a low carbon future in this four module on-demand course. Explore here.
    • Building for a Changing Climate: Foundations of Resilience & Adaptation: Discover the fundamentals of climate resilience and adaptation in the built environment in this four module on-demand course. Explore here.
  • BITESIZE LEARNING: Get to grips with important sustainability topics through concise resources designed to make complex issues easier to understand. Explore here.
  • VIDEOS AND OTHER RESOURCES: Hear from experts and practitioners and explore sustainability issues through accessible, engaging content. Explore here.

Build sustainability knowledge across your organisation

Need to raise awareness or build a shared understanding of sustainability across your teams? UKGBC can create tailored learning aligned with your organisation, sector, and sustainability priorities. From raising awareness of key sustainability issues and introducing core concepts to refreshing knowledge and helping people understand what sustainability means for their role, we can help you build knowledge, confidence and a common language across your organisation.

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Knowledge is the foundation – not the destination

Understanding sustainability is the first step. The next is being able to apply it. As your knowledge and confidence grows, UKGBC’s practical “Deliver Action” learning helps you develop the expertise to apply sustainability knowledge within your role, projects and organisation.

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