Avoid Shift Improve in Practice

Service Description

How do we move from principles to concrete action? This session immerses you in the "Avoid - Shift - Improve" methodology applied to real-life projects. Through case studies and our real-life experiences, you will discover how sustainable strategies can be successfully integrated during a building’s design and construction. No abstract theories here—just a focus on what works, what doesn’t, and why. Through a series of examples, we show how design choices, material selection, and project coordination have a direct impact on a project’s environmental performance, cost, and feasibility - how sustainable ambitions are realised within with real-world constraints, and what lessons we've learned so far. After this training: - You will understand the logic and coherence of the Avoid, Shift, and Improve strategies and be able to use them as a critical design tool in your own projects. - You will have explored a range of practical examples that illustrate which levers work - and which don’t - depending on the building type, project phase, or stakeholders involved. - You will understand that it’s sometimes essential to distinguish early on between truly good and less effective ideas. - You will understand how and when ecological ambitions, technical feasibility, and budgetary constraints can be reconciled. - You will be able to translate a set of sustainable strategies to your own context and evaluate their relevance using criteria such as circularity, emissions, total cost of ownership, or reversibility. Why this training? Because it's time to move beyond good intentions and start taking real actions without getting lost in the complexities of sustainability. This training offers you a clear methodological framework, grounded in practical experience, that helps you increase your impact without overburdening yourself or your team or pursuing the wrong strategies. For whom? This training is aimed at architects, engineers, clients, developers, consultants, and project managers who want to integrate sustainability in a more hands-on way in their projects. It is especially useful for those who have already followed basic training in sustainability or circularity and are now ready to put it into practice.