The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership offers part-time programmes in Sustainability Leadership for the Built Environment that will provide you with the necessary skills and tools to drive change in professional practice and learn global best practices through project-based training.
Delivering exceptional future-fit built environment projects requires skills and expert coordination of individuals towards a shared vision and purpose. Our programmes are designed to foster reflection and debate, through a highly interactive and collaborative learning experience.
Through the programmes, students learn about emerging trends, opportunities, and challenges in the built environment sector and develop deeper understandings of sustainability and resilience in professional practice, including health and wellbeing, retrofit and reuse, energy and carbon, biodiversity, conservation and heritage, stakeholder engagement and cultural, political and regulatory contexts.
Our Sustainability Leadership for the Built Environment programmes are for all those involved in the commissioning, design, construction and management of projects in the built environment.
The programmes attract students from a wide range of professions from across the built environment sector including, but not limited to investors, asset managers, developers, surveyors, architects, engineers, planners, landscape architects, urban designers, contractors, and facility managers who wish to develop their understanding of and responses to the global challenges and opportunities facing the built environment.
The challenge
The built environment is facing challenging carbon reduction targets, affecting every area of the design and construction process, across public and private works. As a result, there is phenomenal appetite for sustainability and environmental skills across every built environment role. Increasingly companies are aligning their business models and procurement processes with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
With a wide range of services and disciplines contributing to the built environment sector, inefficiencies of a fragmented workplace are a key drag on construction projects. While collaboration is required, interdisciplinary awareness and related management skills are seldom part of standard professional built environment qualifications. High impact leadership and seamless project coordination and management are needed. The rise of smart cities and technological transformation demand a broader, more connected 'design-thinking' professional.
These key themes, crucial for successful built environment projects of all types, form the basis of our programmes' core modules:
1. Leadership, professionalism and interdisciplinary practice
2. Sustainability & resilience
3. Innovation & technology
4. Design thinking
5. Research skills
Applications for 2023 entry for the Masters, Postgraduate Certificate and associated scholarships and bursaries close 16 May 2023.
Join a webinar session hosted by the Directors of our part-time postgraduate programmes as they give you an overview of our programmes and admissions process for 2023.
Our Alumni share how studying at CISL has been pivotal in their careers. From becoming a leading advocate for sustainability to shaping solutions and encouraging investors and industry adoption to becoming a driver of transformational change.
CISL is pleased to offer three scholarships for the Master's in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment (IDBE). Applications are open for our Built Environment postgraduate programmes and scholarships starting in 2023. Applications close 16 May 2023 and applicants must submit their application for the Master's first.
