Climate Resilience: A Learning Workshop for Project & Design Team Members

Climate resilience is no longer optional—it’s imperative. Safeguarding people and the natural environment must be our top priority, and the built environment sector is at the forefront of this mission. From designing climate-resilient homes, offices, schools, and healthcare facilities to retrofitting existing assets, our industry must lead the charge in creating safe, adaptable communities that can withstand the uncertainties of our changing climate, anywhere.

The UKGBC’s UK Climate Resilience Roadmap sets out a bold and practical framework for how the sector can respond to the key climate hazards, plan and build long-term resilience, while ensuring a just and climate-safe future for all.

This action-planning workshop will support you in using the Roadmap to develop the basis of an action plan for climate resilience, following the UKGBCs ‘four stages of building resilience’. You’ll work with others across industry to understand your current resilience on projects and develop actions to build-in resilience across project stages.

About the course

During this three and half-hour workshop, we’ll walk through the for stages of building resilience, assessing where your projects are at each stage and considering what actions you can take forward to increase resilience.

We’ll use tools and resources from the Roadmap – and some especially made for this workshop – to help you develop an action plan to use on projects.

We’ll also look at the RIBA stages, and unpack climate resilience at each stage, looking at how we can incorporate it in and link it to other sustainability issues. Finally, we’ll look at metrics and measurement.

This course expects a base level of understanding of climate resilience and adaption. If you’re new to the topic, please sign-up to our An Introduction to Climate Resilience and Adaptation in the Built Environment on-demand course.

We’re also running workshops for organisations, occupiers and owners – learn more about that course here.

The programme will

• Help you use the fours stages of building resilience to develop the basis of action plan

• Give you access to some tools to support action planning

• Give you a series of actions to take back to your teams to help increase resilience and adaptive capacity

• Explore key goals and recommendations from the Climate Resilience Roadmap

Workshop outline

• Welcome

• Climate resilience – the vision and practical route to it

• Four stages of building climate reliance exploration and workshop

• RIBA stages exploration

• Systems approaches

• Metrics and measurement

• Close

Who’s it for?

This workshop is for sustainability professionals looking to get climate resilience on agenda on projects. It’s suited to those working on projects, specially: architects, sustainability consultants and engineers, or anyone else actively working on projects.

Why join the course?

1. Build an action plan for your current and future projects
2. Understand your next steps in increasing resilience across your projects
3. Understand the connections between resilience and other sustainability and social issues
4. Connect with others working in this space and learn from their experience

CPD hours: 3.5

Keystone members are entitled to free places for this masterclass / a 15% discount on full-price tickets. Please contact learning@UKGBC.org for more information.

If you’re unsure if your organisation is a member, please check our Membership Directory.

UKGBC cancellation and refund policy

Please see our website for more details on our cancellations and refunds: https://ukgbc.org/ukgbc-cancellation-and-refund-policy/