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About the course
In 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. 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.
This course is for professionals who want to understand the sustainability challenges facing the real estate sector, and want the knowledge and insights to implement resilient measures to address these challenges. Real estate developers, entrepreneurs, city planners, architects, engineers, and other built environment professionals will learn about the latest planning and design considerations, as well as opportunities for sustainable development. Public sector professionals will have the opportunity to study the impact of sustainability on society, systems, and the broader built environment, and explore solutions to potential challenges. Investment professionals will also gain value from the course, as they realise the impact of climate change on real estate investments and the value behind delivering a sustainable built environment.
Gain valuable and relevant skills, and walk away with
- Insight into the sustainability challenges facing the sector
- An understanding of how sustainability is helping to redesign buildings and cities
- Tools and frameworks to respond to sustainability challenges
- The ability to influence your organisation’s success by implementing sustainable strategies
- A personal action plan to implement a sustainable approach in your sphere of influence
Learn to lead in a changing world
Join over 24,000 students globally who have already benefited from the opportunity to:
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Gain verifiable and relevant competencies and earn invaluable recognition from a top-tier university, entirely online and in your own time.
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Enjoy a personalised, people-mediated online learning experience that consistently achieves over 90 per cent course certification rate.
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Experience a flexible but structured approach to online education as you plan your learning around your life to meet weekly milestones.
Explore effective strategies as you work through the weekly modules of this online short course
Module 1: Real estate sector challenges and opportunities
Module 2: Key themes for a sustainable real estate sector
Module 3: Systems thinking for resilience
Module 4: Redefining the business value for sustainable real estate
Module 5: Design and procurement for sustainable real estate
Module 6: Sustainable operation of the built environment
Module 7: Developing a strategy and encouraging action
Module 8: Maximising your influence and impact
Who should attend?
This course is for professionals who want to understand the sustainability challenges facing the real estate sector, and want the knowledge and insights to implement resilient measures to address these challenges.
Through expert insight and guidance, you will develop a personal action plan to deliver a sustainable outcome in your own built environment context.
Course start dates
- 17 April 2024
- 3 July 2024
Format
Online, tutor-assisted
Length
8 weeks online, 8 – 10 hours per week
