AIA UK Sustainability Series - Upskilling for a Transforming Construction Sector with the RIBA Climate Guide
Join AIA UK for the latest lunchtime talk in our Sustainability Series, with Mina Hasman talking about her new book, the RIBA Climate Guide!
When: Wednesday 29 May 2024, 12:30 - 13:30
Where: Online
CES Credits - Estimated 1.0 LU/ HSW for AIA Members
Speaker
Mina Hasman, RIBA, ARB, FRSA, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, BREEAM AP
Sustainability Director, SOM | Founder, Climate Framework
Description
The built environment has a vital role to play in responding to climate and biodiversity emergencies. There is a pressing need for all the industry professionals to acquire the requisite knowledge and skills to design and deliver built environments that respond to increasing demands of our world, while ensuring holistic, sustainable outcomes are consistently achieved.
In this session, sustainability expert and author Mina Hasman will introduce her new book - the ‘RIBA Climate Guide’ - created to help build knowledge and skills around the climate literacy mandatory competence requirements defined by the RIBA in 2021.
The RIBA Climate Guide maps out the essential background knowledge around climate science, international agreements, legislations, commitments, and roadmaps, with the aim to equip all built-environment professionals with the key information required to mitigate impacts of climate change in their day-to-day practice.
Contextualising the climate emergency and the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 within the built environment landscape, the Guide is structured around the six, core themes of the ‘Climate Framework’ which include Human Factors, Circular Economy, Energy and Carbon, Water, Ecology and Biodiversity, Connectivity and Transport. Uniquely, the book highlights interlinkages that exist among all of these priority areas to enable stakeholders across the built environment value chain to make holistically informed decisions.
The RIBA Climate Guide presents a collection of short, building- and urban-scale case studies, which illustrate real-life applications of design strategies and industry-wide tools, as well as standards that are deployed in climate-conscious built environments all around the world.
Speaker Bio
Mina Hasman leads SOM’s sustainability and wellbeing operations, long-term vision and strategy for achieving excellence in practice. She oversees the firm’s progress on climate action, as it pertains to its global business operations and projects.
Mina has experience in a wide variety of projects in Europe, UK, Middle East, and Asia, bringing a greater understanding of the implications for sustainable and equitable design in different climatic, social, and regulatory contexts. As a recognised expert in her field, she has been elected to, and is actively involved in the UKGBC Board of Trustees, RIBA Council, Practice & Policy Committee, and the Climate Emergency Task Group (as Co-Chair), CAA Council and the Practice Committee (as Chair), LETI Steering Committee, UNEP/GlobalABC’s COP Task Force, CIC Climate Change Committee (as Deputy Chair), CIBSE Intelligent Buildings Group (as Vice Chair) and the WorldGBC Advancing Net Zero Committee.
Mina regularly contributes to the wider climate change, sustainability and wellbeing debate in her role as tutor at various academic institutions, including The Bartlett (UCL), Architectural Association, and the Manchester School of Architecture. Developed in her leadership, the trans-disciplinary, “Climate Framework” Initiative enabled Mina to help the RIBA to define its Mandatory Competence Requirements for climate literacy. Mina also authored the “RIBA Climate Guide” – the book, structured around the Climate Framework – to equip the built environment professionals with key knowledge to mitigate the impacts of climate change.
Mina’s years of experience, expertise and leadership in climate advocacy, has earned her The Big 5 Construction Award for the Sustainable Leader of the Year in 2021, and led the TIME Magazine to identify her as one of the 100 most influential climate leaders in the world in 2023. Mina was also in the Stirling Prize Jury in 2021, and currently chairs the RIBA Silver Medal since 2023.