CAM Sustainable Real Estate: Creating a Better Built Environment
Online
DURATION
8 Weeks
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
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TUITION FEES
USD 2,868
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Introduction
Discover how sustainable real estate can connect communities, create industry opportunities, and deliver meaningful business value.
Buildings produce a third of all greenhouse gas emissions and are one of the main consumers of energy in the world.1 The real estate sector plays an undeniable role in the climate emergency and needs to be reimagined if we want a sustainable future.
On the Sustainable Real Estate: Creating a Better Built Environment online short course, you’ll learn how to find opportunities within sustainability challenges in the built environment. Designed by expert faculty from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL), the course addresses and analyses the ecological, social, and governance aspects of real estate. With this overview of industry trends and risks, you’ll examine how sustainable real estate can contribute to a more resilient and inclusive society, and positively impact communities. Towards the end of this eight-week course, you’ll develop a personal action plan to deliver a sustainable outcome in your own built environment context. This strategy will help you realise the role you and your organisation can play in improving your own supply chains, as well as the vast real estate network.
1 World Economic Forum (January 2020).
About the certificate
Study sustainable real estate and earn an official certificate of completion from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
Assessment is continuous and based on a series of practical assignments completed online. In order to be issued with a certificate, you’ll need to meet the requirements outlined in the course handbook. The handbook will be made available to you as soon as you begin the course.
Your certificate will be issued in your legal name and sent to you upon successful completion of the course, as per the stipulated requirements.
You’ll walk away with: A holistic view of the ecological, social, and governance challenges and opportunities of sustainability within real estate. The systems thinking skills and knowledge to deliver resilient real estate solutions that create social and business value. A personal action plan to contribute to a sustainable future for real estate and the larger built environment. Access to the CISL International Alumni Network, which consists of over 12,000 global leaders and industry professionals who represent business, the public sector, and civil society.
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Ideal Students
This course is for you if:
- You're an architect, engineer, city planner, or professional working within the built environment and need insight into the latest sustainability trends and planning considerations for real estate.
- You're a real estate investor or developer who would like to better understand industry opportunities and the implications of sustainability on the value of the property.
- You work within the public sector or financial market and need to understand the impact of climate change on real estate investments, and how to integrate sustainability across the built environment.
Program Outcome
You’ll walk away with:
- A holistic view of the ecological, social, and governance challenges and opportunities of sustainability within real estate.
- The systems thinking skills and knowledge to deliver resilient real estate solutions that create social and business value.
- A personal action plan to contribute to a sustainable future for real estate and the larger built environment.
- Access to the CISL International Alumni Network, which consists of over 12,000 global leaders and industry professionals who represent business, the public sector, and civil society.
Curriculum
Over the duration of this online short course, you’ll work through the following modules:
- Module 1: Real estate sector challenges and opportunities
Recognise the global trends and associated risks influencing the real estate sector. - Module 2: Key themes for a sustainable real estate sector
Understand the key principles driving sustainability in the real estate sector. - Module 3: Systems thinking for resilience
Assess how developing a sustainable built environment connects communities and infrastructure. - Module 4: Redefining the business value for sustainable real estate
Explore how redefining value can reduce business risk and deliver resilient built assets. - Module 5: Design and procurement for a sustainable built environment
Introducing the key design strategies and procurement processes that help create an equitable and sustainable built environment. - Module 6: Sustainable operation of the built environment
Explore the importance of incorporating sustainability throughout the life cycle of a built environment asset. - Module 7: Developing a strategy and encouraging action
Explore the methods for developing a sustainable real estate strategy for effective outcomes. - Module 8: Maximising your influence and impact
Reflect on your personal action plan and create a network of your peers.
Please note that module titles and their contents are subject to change during course development.
Manage your time
GetSmarter's learning model is designed to help you, as a working professional, improve your skills without compromising on work and family responsibilities. The course work is broken up into weekly, manageable bite-sized modules, with incremental deadlines, designed to help you pace yourself over the duration of the course and allow you the legroom to work when it suits you best.
At the beginning of each module, you'll be presented with the course content and assignments necessary for completion. You also have access to your Success Adviser who will help you manage your time, and support you with any administrative or technical queries you might have.
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