Free Online Course offered by FutureLearn on Sustainable Construction and Development

Future Learn Platform offers a free online course under the theme of "Sustainable Construction and Development".

Course background:

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, you’ll learn about the obligations and actions that play a role in the concept and practice of sustainability in construction and development.

You’ll explore the need for environmental, economic and social sustainability, and the implications for the construction industry.

You’ll learn best practices from successful sustainability initiatives, and understand the challenge of achieving sustainability in the future.

This course is intended for:

This course is for anyone interested in sustainable construction and development, but may be of particular interest to those working in or studying construction and the wider built environment.

Course duration:

2 hours per week for 5 weeks.

Course topics:

• 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.

Course objectives:

By the end of this course learners will be able to:

1. Demonstrate understanding of the complexities of sustainability from generic and project specific perspectives, and the obligations of stakeholders.
2. Evaluate the environmental considerations of sustainability and their implications on construction processes and practices
3. Evaluate economic considerations of sustainability and their implications on construction processes and practices.
4. Evaluate social considerations of sustainability and their implications on construction processes and practices.
5. Demonstrate knowledge of lessons learned from good practices of sustainability initiatives, and better understand how these could be implemented in projects.
6. Explain the nature of the task of attaining sustainability in the built environment in future, considering the most likely future scenario of the sustainable development agenda.

Course costs:

Learner can join this course for free and get access to it for 7 weeks.

Or upgrade this course for $69 and gets:

• Access to this course for as long as it’s on Future Learn.
• Access to this course’s tests as well as a print and digital Certificate of Achievement once he/she is eligible.

Or buy unlimited for $ 259.99 for one year and gets:

• Access to this course, and hundreds of other FutureLearn short courses and tests for a year.
• A printable digital Certificate of Achievement on all short courses once they are eligible.
• The freedom to keep access to any course he/she has achieved a digital Certificate of Achievement on, for as long as the course exists on Future Learn.
• The flexibility to complete own choice of short courses in learner’s own time within the year.

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