Overview, Methodology & Trends

Service Description

This session offers a perfect introduction to sustainable material use for those looking to reduce the environmental impact of their building projects. Through a mix of theory and practice, you will gain a concise yet comprehensive understanding of what building sustainability, circularity and environmental impact mean in 2025, which contradictions exist within these concepts, and which strategies can lead to low-impact outcomes today. The training session looks at a range of concrete solutions which are readily available and discusses the challenges and obstacles that professionals are currently facing. It concludes with a series of inspiring examples that show how far the boundaries of what’s possible have already shifted in recent years. Expect lots of inspiration, occasional amazement, and engaging discussions! After this training, you will: - Understand how conventional building materials are deeply intertwined with today’s ecological challenges. - Know how sustainability strategies such as reuse, recycling, timber construction, and modularity relate to one another, and which approaches are most or least effective in reducing environmental impacts. - Have a general understanding of current sustainability criteria, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), and their relation to the shifting regulatory framework. - Understand how the Avoid–Shift–Improve methodology enables you to drastically reduce the environmental impact of your building projects in a quick and pragmatic way. - Be able to immediately get started with a series of budget-friendly and low-impact construction materials. Why this training? This course provides you with a solid understanding of the key aspects of sustainable construction and shows you the current trends and best practices that are easy to adopt. You’ll receive arguments which will enable you to initiate conversations with your building team, stakeholders and clients, and be equipped with set of fundamental principles which will boost sustainability in your construction process in a pragmatic and budget-friendly way. For your team or organization, this session is also an excellent opportunity to start a conversation around sustainability and to work on a collectively shared vision. For whom? This training is aimed at architects, contractors, developers and any other professionals in the construction sector. No prior experience is required, and even for those already familiar with circularity and sustainability, the broad scope and up-to-date insights from practice will be of great interest!