This interactive half day course will cover all of the steps needed for a social value assessment, including:

Why attend  

Gain the latest thinking on social value, and clear processes of how to generate and measure social value. The session will be compelling and interactive allowing you to think through the key touchpoints for a development to create broader positive impact on communities, whilst also learning from networking with your peers and experts and hearing about their experiences. 

Who should attend? 

This course will be most relevant to built environment professionals who are striving to maximise social value outcomes. We recommend delegates have a base level understanding of social value in the built environment before joining the course. See more on our learning levels here.

Course Leader

Oliver Kempton, Partner at Envoy Partnership.
Oliver is a Social Value International Level 3 Accredited Practitioner and was a member of UKGBC’s Social Value Task Group. He sits on the Social Value International methodology sub-committee, and the BREEAM Social Impact Technical Working Group. He also teaches at London School of Economics.

Free Gold Leaf member tickets available – please contact learning@ukgbc.org.

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Health, Wellbeing and Social Value

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Similarly, the operation of existing non-domestic buildings is responsible for 23% of built environment emissions. Retrofitting our existing buildings without adversely increasing embodied carbon emissions is a key challenge we need to address in our transition to net zero. Our How Circular Economy Principles can impact carbon and value report explored the opportunities circular economy design principles can offer to reduce whole life carbon, and how this can be valued in built assets.

To bring to life the opportunities and lessons learned from a recent pilot project that explored this challenge, UKGBC is hosting a site tour of CISL’s Entopia building – a case study featured in our report last year, targeting WELL Gold rating, BREEAM Outstanding, and EnerPHit Classic. 

Being joined by ISG and Architype the tour will include presentations from the design and delivery teams outlining the range of sustainability interventions introduced and key lessons learned, followed by post-tour refreshments and networking. 

Why attend? 

• Deepen understanding of how to retrofit non-residential buildings and minimise embodied carbon impacts
• Raise awareness of the value of circular design principles and whole life carbon reductions
• Explore solutions, challenges and lessons learned first-hand from the design and delivery teams
• Network with fellow built environment professionals

Who should attend? 

Built environment professionals focused on the retrofit and/or the fit-out of commercial buildings who are looking to include circular design principles in their work and reduce whole life carbon emissions. 

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The need for rapid decarbonisation is clear. The impacts of climate change are being felt here and now, with average global temperature records being broken across the summer. We need to accelerate action to mitigate our impacts on our planet. But we’re not moving fast enough. The Whole Life Carbon Roadmap indicates that continuing business as usual would see the sector fall well short of the 2050 net zero target.

Organisations across the built environment value chain need to play their part in reaching net zero, and each and every person in those organisations can support the transformation.

That means you!

‘Net zero’ can appear confusing, complicated, and highly challenging to achieve, but UKGBC are here to help you understand what this means, why it’s important and what actions you can take.

This webinar series will build your core net zero knowledge through exploring key concepts, ideas and solutions needed to reach net zero across our built environment. Each session will delve into a new subject, from measuring carbon, to retrofit and much more.

UKGBC’s Advancing Net Zero team will provide expert guidance across the series, alongside inspirational examples of success and case studies from UKGBC members. Each session will allow for questions, giving you the opportunity to ask our experts and guests anything you want.

Series detail

Each webinar will run from 09:30 – 10:25 GMT (with an extended Q&A from 10:25-10:45)

The subjects covered and dates are as follows:

1. Advancing Net Zero in the Built Environment – An Introduction – Friday 22 September

2. Net Zero in Organisations – Friday 29 September

3. Defining, Designing, and Delivering Net Zero Carbon Buildings – Friday 13 October

4. Whole Life Carbon and the Circular Economy – Friday 27 October

5. Procuring Renewable Energy and Carbon Offsets – Friday 10 November

6. Retrofitting the UK’s Built Environment – Friday 24 November

Why attend?

Every one of us needs to be part of the journey to a net zero, sustainable built environment. As organisations set carbon reduction targets and progress towards more sustainable business objectives, it’s important to understand some of these key concepts to ensure you are not left behind.

From attending this series, you will:

• Understand what net zero carbon means, and how it can be achieved in the built environment sector.
• See how organisations are already rising to the challenge.
• Be inspired to participate in sustainability action in your organisation.
• Know where to find further UKGBC resources and learning

Who should attend?

These sessions are designed for anyone who’s interested in knowing more about net zero in the built environment – they’re open to all. They will cover essential knowledge, not detailed, technical advice.

You could be early in your career, or keen to know more about what net zero means for your team or role, or you may have recognised that you need to know more on this topic to succeed in your organisation. Either way, this series will give you the essential knowledge you need to support the decarbonisation of the built environment.

Discounts:

For non-members attending all six webinars, contact events@UKGBC.org to get the final session for free.

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Core content

1. The Sustainability Leadership Companion: an easily accessible written guide addressing the case for action, leaders’ purpose and key attributes, innovation, storytelling, systems change, and more. It delves into what is needed at organisational level, giving practical examples and cases at project and personal leadership level. The Companion has been designed for readers to dip in and out, ready to provide shots of inspiration at any given time.

It is designed to:

• Make key sustainability leadership insights more accessible
• Help as an explainer, what sustainability leadership is, and what is needed for a different future
• Unpack the complexity of systems thinking, and innovation in the built environment
• Help individuals explore the key behaviours needed for effective sustainability leadership

2. The Sustainability Leadership WhatsApp course: shaped with the busy professional in mind, this course delivers impactful learning to the palm of your hand. The six-week digital course explores core sustainability leadership concepts through compact and manageable learning modules, each summarised with practical actions that can be taken as next steps. Learnings are deployed through WhatsApp messages, with a 1 hour per week time commitment for reading and reflection exercises, and UKGBC facilitators helping guide participants to share thoughts and experiences.

It is designed to:

• Provide light touch nuggets of learning for busy leaders
• Act as an aide memoire – things to think about, triggers for acting differently, practical tips
• Inspire and re-energise, reassure and equip those that use it with activities to explore their own positioning to the topics covered

3. Online group calls: these check-ins provide the opportunity for delegates to meet each other and the course facilitators to discuss core themes. The calls will be at the start, mid-point and the end of the programme and will bring together the learnings and reflections from the course into a lively discussion-based session.

They are designed to:

• Encourage reflection on personal leadership styles and peer to peer learning
• Enable participants to discuss challenges to sustainability leadership with peers in a non-competitive space

Who is Leadership Lite for? 

Anyone interested in sustainability leadership.

Every one of us has the potential to act as a leader within our spheres of influence, regardless of position or job title. The Leadership Lite pack will support this.  It is aimed at you as a company, you as a professional, and you as an individual. Leaders at all levels, across in the built environment.

When does the course take place?

The Companion is available in PDF format on demand. After signing up you will receive an automatic ticket email from Eventbrite as confirmation which contains the link to the PDF Companion.

The WhatsApp course runs for 6 weeks. Please note, that, other than the check-in calls, the course is not timebound and participants can engage with the content at whatever time suits them.

October 2023 course dates:
WhatsApp course start: Monday 9 October
Kick-off call: Tuesday 10 Oct, 10:00 – 11:30
Mid-point call:  Thursday 2 November, 10:00 – 11:30
Close out call: Tuesday 21 November, 10:00 – 11:30

We are pleased to offer a group discount for colleagues of 3+ signing up for the October course. We also offer our Gold Leaf members 15% discount – email leaders@ukgbc.org for information.

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Assessing climate-related risks is becoming a legal requirement for asset owners. 1,300 of the largest UK-registered companies and financial institutions are required to disclose climate-related financial information on a mandatory basis, using guidelines from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD). This requirement is likely to expand to include smaller organisations by 2025. Now is the time to develop the skills and knowledge to assess physical risk across your portfolio.

UKGBC’s Framework for Measuring and Reporting of Climate-related Physical Risks to Built Assets was written to support organisations to assess their risk, and report in line with TCFD recommendations.

Following the success of UKGBCs Physical Risks Lab, we’re now launching an open learning programme for our members and wider industry to develop the skills and knowledge needed to measure and report risk.

About the course 

This practical course, spread across three months, invites delegates to use UKGBC’s Physical Risk Framework and Reporting Tool on one of their own assets. Following an introductory workshop, at which the key concepts with be introduced along with a detailed explanation of the framework and associated materials, delegates will use the assessment tools on a real asset within their portfolio. They’ll use the framework to work through the process of assessing physical risk, learning through practical application and with the support of UKGBC experts and peers on the course.  

The course will involve a series of peer group check-ins to discuss the challenges they’re facing and find solutions and will wrap up with an online session for delegates to share their successes. 

Upon completion, delegates will have a physical risk assessment for their chosen asset, and the knowledge and skills to assess the risks to other assets in their portfolio.   

Climate Change Adaptation

As the climate crisis intensifies and extreme weather events become more common, the UK’s buildings, cities and critical infrastructure, and the communities that use and occupy these, are in increasing danger. It’s vital to address how our buildings and infrastructure can be adapted to remain fit for the future.

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Resilience & Nature Partners

Our climate change adaptation work is supported by our Resilience & Nature Partners.

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Hosted by School of the Wild, this half-day experiential workshop will explore approaches to boosting biodiversity in the built environment using by using processes and design ideas inspired by the natural world.

Alongside the climate crisis, we face an ecological crisis in which biodiversity in the UK is under severe and urgent threat. With 50% of the UK’s economy linked to nature and the UK, one of the most biodiversity depleted countries in the world, restoring our natural environments is critical to building our future green economy.

From November 2023, incoming Biodiversity and Environmental Net Gain legislation will mandate a 10% biodiversity net gain on all new development. For all built environment professionals in the UK, this creates a responsibility to ensure that any new development or refurbishment is designed to not only preserve nature, but also enhance it. In addition, nature-positive solutions can build more resilient environments, tackle the climate crisis, and improve people’s lives, health and wellbeing. 

To empower the industry with the knowledge and skills to embrace and exceed the 10% biodiversity uplift in all new developments, we are pleased to offer this immersive learning opportunity. 

About the session

Through extended time outdoors and inspired by nature itself, you’ll explore new ways of thinking and discover practical solutions that can encourage far greater biodiversity whilst playing to your architectural strengths.

Why attend  

• Understand the relationship between biodiversity, climate and our built environment
• Explore tangible and practical ideas and concepts that you can take away and share
• Develop a greater appreciation of the value of nature
• Draw inspiration from natural processes
• Boost creative thinking and consider new ways of building
• Make connections with peers and like minds, grow your network

Who should attend? 

This workshop is relevant to anybody with an interest in incorporating natural systems into urban design and planning, no matter your level of expertise. 

Gold Leaf members can attend this course for free using one of their complimentary learning and development places.

For more information please contact  us.

Workshop facilitators  

Nigel Berman, Founder, School of the Wild
Nigel is founder and CEO of School of the Wild, a company that brings businesses and organisations into nature to think differently. An experienced facilitator, Nigel is passionate about the power of nature to support transformational and regenerative change in the way people work and live. 

Dylan Walker, Found, Wilderlife
Dylan is half entrepreneur, half ecologist, and half educator. Too many halves? He also failed maths at school. Through Wilderlife he runs rewilding workshops that put people first, and facilitates community-driven nature conservation and ecotourism projects. He believes that fostering a deep cultural connection with our natural world is the only way to protect our precious wildlife in the long term.

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Please note, the application deadline has been to Friday 9th June.

Celebrating 10 Years of Future Leaders

This summer we are running a special edition of Future Leaders to mark the tenth anniversary of the programme. The programme will run across multiple sites in Birmingham and London.

The focus of the programme will be on taking ideas from the last 10 years of the programme and developing them into actionable business plans. Participants will gain skills in insight gathering, prototyping and experimentation as well as business model design.

What is Future Leaders?

The renowned five-month Future Leaders programme is designed for forward-thinking professionals with 5-10 years’ experience in the built environment industry. Through a mix of online and in person workshops, retreats and showcase events, participants work in teams to develop the skills and personal confidence to drive transformational change in their organisation. This transformation will not come about by business as usual, but through a radical and fundamental shift, in which sustainability and innovative thinking are strategic drivers.

Participants will benefit from a range of expert inputs and high profile keynote speakers, and will work to develop an innovation idea on key built environment sustainability challenges which are developed through the programme.

The Future Leaders 2023 Summer programme includes 3 key touchpoints:

Part 1: Explore and initiate

5th July: Kick-off Workshop (Online)

18th – 20th July: 3 day Innovation and Leadership Workshop (Birmingham)

Sustainability and radical transformation

Part 2: Develop and refine

12th – 13th September: 2 day Nature Retreat (Venue TBC)

Personal leadership

Part 3: Action

29th November: 1 day Showcase (London or Birmingham)

Innovation pitches

There are also four additional online touchpoints and 1:1 coaching offered throughout the programme.

Who should apply?

Future Leaders are drawn from a range of backgrounds from the built environment sector, and are selected based on an enthusiasm to learn, an openness to new ways of thinking, and a desire to challenge the status quo. It is not a prerequisite to have sustainability in the job title – in fact the diversity of perspectives is crucial to the programme’s success.

As with our other leadership programmes, applications for Future Leaders are highly competitive, and we accept a maximum of two applicants from each organisation. 

UKGBC offers up to five bursary places each year to an individual from either a not-for-profit organisation, SME, or local authority. In order to be considered for this place, your organisation must be a UKGBC member. Please contact leaders@ukgbc.org for more information.

If you have any further questions, please contact leaders@ukgbc.org

Download the Future Leaders Prospectus here

 

Download the Future Leaders Application Form here

Leadership Programme strategic partners

With thought leadership provided by Talik & Co.

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With over 70% of the UK’s non-residential building stock constructed before the year 2000, there is an urgent need to increase the pace at which we are retrofitting the UK’s commercial real estate in order for us to meet the UK’s energy efficiency and net zero targets. 

To bring to life the opportunities and lesson learned from a recent project, UKGBC is hosting a site tour of Arup’s 10 George Street in Edinburgh – a case study featured in our Delivering Net Zero: Key Considerations for Commercial Retrofit report last year and achieved SKA Gold certification for the fit out. 

UKGBC member and office fit-out specialist, Overbury, led the project with a strong focus on reducing embodied carbon from concept stages through to delivery. The project team employed a circular approach to minimise waste, chose products with Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs) where possible, and integrated carbon factors into value engineering decisions. 

The tour will include presentations from the design and delivery teams outlining the range of sustainability interventions introduced and key lessons learned, followed by post-tour refreshments and networking. 

Why attend

• Deepen understanding of how to retrofit non-residential buildings
• Raise awareness of key challenges and opportunities of commercial retrofit
• Explore solutions, challenges and lessons learned first-hand
• Network with fellow UKGBC members

Who should attend? 

Scotland based design and delivery teams focused on the retrofit and/or fit-out of commercial buildings.

Speakers 

• Lyle Chrystie, Director, Reiach & Hall Architects
• Graeme Gidney, Director, Arup
• Elliot Wishlade, Director, Arup
• Mike Clarke, Director of Membership, UKGBC
• David Steen, Senior Policy Advisor, UKGBC Scotland

Advancing Net Zero Partners

Our climate change mitigation work is made possible thanks to the generous support of our Advancing Net Zero Programme Partners

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The Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 Act has helped to bring the broader social value agenda to the fore. It has encouraged public sector procurement teams to look beyond financial metrics and measurements within bids and tendering activities, much of this being driven by enlightened local authorities. This shift in focus is changing expectations, creating a market where suppliers are increasingly expecting to demonstrate social value. 

Overview 

Join us for a half day course to discuss how the built environment industry can understand, measure, and communicate its social value. The course will cover all of the steps needed for a social value assessment, including working with stakeholders, measuring outcomes, and applying monetary values. It will explore the different frameworks and tools that are available, including UKGBC’s Framework for Defining Social Value. The course will be interactive, with a range of examples, discussions, and exercises. 

Why attend  

Gain the latest thinking on social value, and clear processes of how to generate and measure social value. The session will be compelling and interactive allowing you to think through the key touchpoints for a development to create broader positive impact on communities, whilst also learning from networking with your peers and experts and hearing about their experiences. 

Who should attend? 

This course will be most relevant to built environment professionals who are striving to maximise social value outcomes. 

Course leader 

Oliver Kempton, Partner at Envoy Partnership. Oliver is a Social Value International Level 3 Accredited Practitioner and was a member of UKGBC’s Social Value Task Group. He sits on the Social Value International methodology sub-committee, and the BREEAM Social Impact Technical Working Group. He also teaches at London School of Economics.

Free Gold Leaf member tickets available – please contact learning@ukgbc.org.

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Capturing the key highlights and ideas from UKGBC’s impactful leadership programmes, Leadership Lite conveys the key concepts and take-aways required to deepen understanding, expand thinking and drive behaviour change, empowering readers with the knowledge and skills to steer and lead progress, whatever their job title. 

It is comprised of: 

• The Sustainability Leadership Companion: this easily accessible written guide supports built environment professionals, in all stages of their careers, to gain further transformational leadership skills.   

• The Sustainability Leadership WhatsApp course: designed with the busy professional in mind this course is delivered to the palm of your hand. Core concepts are delivered through compact and manageable learning modules, each summarised with practical actions that can be taken as next steps.  

Who is Leadership Lite for? 

Anyone interested in sustainability leadership.  

Every one of us has the potential to act as a leader within our spheres of influence, regardless of position or job title. The Leadership Lite pack will support this.  It is aimed at you as a company, you as a professional, and you as an individual. Leaders at all levels, across in the built environment. 

Core content 

The Sustainability Leadership Companion is a detailed guide that addresses the case for action, leaders’ purpose and key attributes, innovation, storytelling, systems change, and more. It delves into what is needed at organisational level, gives practical examples and cases at project level and personal leadership level. The Companion has been written for readers to dip in and out, ready to provide nuggets of inspiration at any given time.  It is designed to: 

• Make key sustainability leadership insights more accessible  
• Help as an explainer, what Sustainability Leadership is, and what is needed for a different future 
• Unpack the complexity of systems thinking, and innovation in the built environment  
• Help individuals explore the key behaviours needed for effective sustainability leadership 

The Sustainability Leadership WhatsApp course accompanies The Companion, to practically take busy professionals and leaders through a ‘light’ version of The Companion. It is a 6-week short course with a time commitment of 1 hour a week. Learnings are deployed through WhatsApp messages, with facilitators helping guide participants to share thoughts and experiences. The course brings to life the more extended thinking of The Companion in a bitesize way and gives practical examples to enable readers to apply learnings. The WhatsApp course: 

• Provides light touch nuggets of learning for busy leaders 
• Acts as an aide memoire – things to think about, triggers for acting differently, practical tips 
• Aims to inspire and re-energise, reassure and equip those that use it with activities to explore their own positioning to the topics covered
• Connects participants with others on their own leadership journey, enabling discussion and peer support  

When: 

The Companion is available in PDF format on demand. 

The WhatsApp course is running from Monday 16th January for 6 weeks.

Cost 

• £85 per person + VAT UKGBC for members (please note, Gold Leaf members receive a 15% discount – contact leaders@ukgbc.org)
• £195 per person + VAT for non-members 

Sign up here  

After signing up you will receive an automatic ticket email from Eventbrite as confirmation which contains the link to the PDF Companion.

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