Built environment: visions for greener healthier buildings

We need retrofit and build indoor environments to be healthy, affordable and sustainable but what are the options and how can they be delivered? How do make key decisions such as on the right balance between retrofit versus building new?

In this Critical Conversation we will explore the issues involved in ensuring we have healthy, affordable and sustainable buildings and, in ensuring we take account of people’s needs, the need for public voice and dialogue within the built environments in which we live.

This event will be hosted by Academy CEO Dr Hayaatun Sillem CBE, who will be joined by a specialist panel - to be announced soon.

Register: https://raeng.org.uk/events/2024/nov/critical-conversations-built-environment-visions-for-greener-healthier-buildings

Engineers play a critical role in showing how we can achieve socially beneficial outcomes, however, these must be shaped by wider society. Identifying these outcomes and their challenges needs conversations between publics, policymakers, researchers, innovators, and those that build the infrastructures we rely on. Having discussions about the futures we need to build, in relation to net zero, involves actively involving wider publics in the engineering sphere, and having real dialogue about what that is and how we get there.

This Critical Conversations mini series will explore the role of public dialogue in informing engineering’s response to the net zero transition and what pathways should be taken. The three topics will be energy, transport and built environment.

Bringing together the thoughts of leading experts from across the Academy’s networks, our Critical Conversations explore issues of relevance to global professional engineering community and wider society. Fellows, awardees, and engineering partners gather to tackle topical issues of relevance to the global professional engineering community and wider society. 

You will be able to pose your questions to the panel during the live event via the comments section on LinkedIn. 

Catch up on all previous Critical Conversations here.