About the Sustainability Leadership in the Built Environment Programme

The Programme is a high-impact 48 hour residential seminar that takes place at Churchill College in Cambridge.

The content will take participants from a view of the global system pressures and trends which provide the context for sustainable development to the specific implications, challenges and opportunities for those working in the built environment. It will look at different responses for shifting the system including: Government Policy, Finance and Investment, Lifestyles and Communities, Supply Chains, Design and Behaviour Change.

Case studies from both within and outside the sector will be used to illustrate the strategies which have resulted in individual and collective business change.

Aims

The broad aims are that the programme will enable participants to:

• Refresh their understanding of key sustainability challenges, the complex linkages between them and societal responses, including:
  Challenges: Climate change, energy futures and choices, resource scarcity, ecosystems, poverty/equity, health, globalisation/localisation, and social justice;
  Responses: Trends in corporate, government, markets and civil society responses.
• Develop the language, understanding, and skills necessary to embed sustainability in their core business;
• Understand innovative sustainability value models and how to integrate them within a commercial context;
• Gain challenging insights from world class thought leaders and best practice case studies;
• Be inspired and motivated to take leadership and action, and to effectively communicate key issues, risks and opportunities to their teams within the company and to key stakeholders.
• Become part of an alumni 'breakthrough network' to deliver sector change through an on-going engagement process.

Follow-Up Event

A half day follow-up event takes place in London six months after the seminar to see how participants have progressed with commitments they have made during the seminar; and to share what they have learnt since the seminar.

The Programme is specifically designed for senior directors and managers, decision makers, and leaders from all organisations for whom the built environment is important.

This will include: central governments; city governments; local and regional authorities; development agencies; the finance and investment community; design professionals; service and equipment providers; utilities and infrastructure; transportation; building-user groups; academic and research organisations; professional bodies and institutes.

Programme Alumni

To view the range of organisations that attended the programme during 2011, please download a list of alumni from the 2011 programme.

The programme has been designed to be highly intensive and participatory, offering the maximum opportunity for dialogue, debate and analysis. Modules are designed to provide a challenging and inspiring learning environment for participants who will be exposed to a wide range of perspectives on the challenges of sustainability and strategic responses.

The programme will combine academic and practitioner inputs on the critical sustainability challenges for the sector. Contributors will be drawn from the relevant areas of the University of Cambridge, from those closely associated with the sector and from the CPSL network of leading thinkers and practitioners from around the world. A rich mixture of expert input and commentary will be blended with both plenary and facilitated, small group discussions thereby ensuring both increased understanding and peer-to-peer learning.

Read more about CPSL’s learning model.

The Møller Centre is part of the University of Cambridge's Churchill College, and is specifically designed as conference and training venue.

It is conveniently located just 15 minutes' walk from Cambridge city centre and is close to the motorway network, Stansted International Airport (30 minutes by car) and London (one hour by rail). The Møller Centre has excellent facilities designed to create a productive learning and working environment.

Travel Information

Read information on how to get to get to The Møller Centre.

Accommodation

The Møller Centre provides executive en-suite bedrooms with free digital TV, oversized desk, direct dial telephone, wireless broadband, minibar, tea/coffee making facilities, hairdryer and ironing board.

On-Site Facilities and Internet Access

Meals will be served in the restaurant of The Møller Centre and the Tower Lounge Bar will also be open in the evenings.

Free PC workstation access is available in public areas with wireless broadband throughout.

A range of sports facilities are available on-site, including a fitness suite and outdoor leisure facilities, jogging trails, tennis and squash courts.

Free on-site parking is available.

Accessibility

Wheelchair access is available throughout. A hearing induction loop and sonic alert pillows are available on request.

Extra Accommodation

Accommodation during the seminar is included in the programme fee, as are all meals. If you require accommodation on the night before or following the seminar, please advise us as soon as possible. You will need to pay for these additional nights separately, settling your bill directly with The Møller Centre before departure. The cost of an additional night’s bed and breakfast will be approximately £100 +VAT.

N.B. Please note that any extras will be charged to your personal account which should be settled directly with The Møller Centre before departure.

Dress Requirements

In order to encourage a relaxed and informal atmosphere, participants are welcome to wear casual dress rather than formal business attire.

Contact Address

The Møller Centre
Management Training & Conference Venue
Storey's Way
Cambridge
CB3 0DE

Tel.: +44 (0)1223 465500
Fax: +44 (0)1223 465525
www.mollercentre.co.uk

A Gateway to a Unique Forum: the Cambridge Sustainability Network   

Having attended one of CPSL's programmes or seminars, delegates join over 4,000 alumni of CPSL in the Cambridge Sustainability Network (CSN).

The CSN is an international network of sustainability leaders comprising some of the most senior decision-makers in business, the public sector and civil society. Members come from many sectors and regions, and include faculty, tutors, contributors and supporters of CPSL’s work, many of whom are the world’s leading experts in their field.

The network is increasingly seen as a major consultative forum for policy makers and other decision-makers around the world, and members are regularly invited to take part in consultation processes that offer benefits to all involved.

Membership of this network offers a means of keeping abreast of the debate, and provides further inspiration, encouragement, support and advice to those wishing to help their organisations take a lead on sustainability issues.

The CSN supports and encourages its members to remain engaged with sustainability issues after they have returned to their organisations, to share knowledge, foster cooperation and achieve real change.

Members of the network will gain:

• the opportunity to continue their leadership journey via regular events tailored to specific sectors or current issues; 
• a gateway to world-class thinking and leadership for sustainability via regular communications; 
• the opportunity to participate in consultative processes with other senior decision-makers and thought leaders.