Calculating environmental impacts and circularity in construction
At the request of financiers, the construction and real-estate sector must disclose data demonstrating a building’s sustainability. The assessment methodology is based on the Level(s) framework. The Environmental Act adds a requirement to also take resource-efficiency and material-circulation indicators into account.
Audience
The training is aimed at architects, designers, and companies in the construction and real-estate sector. It is suitable for both beginners and experienced specialists who wish to acquire or deepen their knowledge of assessing the environmental impacts and sustainability of organisations and buildings.
Learning outcomes
- Understands sustainability reporting requirements and can interpret them in both product-development and organisational contexts.
- Can plan and implement the measurement of life-cycle environmental impact.
- Can use the Level(s) framework.
- Applies the Level(s) framework in sustainability reporting.
Curriculum
- Life-cycle and systems-thinking principles
- The Level(s) framework
- Bill of Quantities of materials and service lives (UM3 indicator 2.1)
- Calculating the carbon footprint of a building and organisation
- Circularity indicators in construction
ScopeTotal study volume: 60 academic hours
FormatOnline mentored learning and independent e-learning; over 500 pages of materials.