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The Construction Industry Council (CIC) in partnership with built and natural environment think tank, the Edge, have published the ‘Competence Framework for Sustainability in the Built Environment’.
This is an underpinning framework for developing discipline-specific sustainability competence requirements across the built and natural environment sector. The standard has been drafted as a Seed Document for a British Standard in the BSI’s Competence in the Built Environment series that commenced with BS 8670: Part 1 on Competence for Building Safety published in 2024.
The framework, which is intended for use by a wide range of organisations describing the competence requirements for specific roles in the sector, including commissioning clients and advisers, professionals, contractors, managers, manufacturers, suppliers and regulators, was developed under Workstream 10 of CIC’s Climate Action Plan, coordinated by the Edge with support from the University College of Estate Management (UCEM), through a process of extensive cross-sector and public consultation.
The aims of the framework are to:
a) Set core criteria for achieving sustainability;
b) Facilitate the development of sector-specific competence frameworks; and
c) Support a consistent approach to competence frameworks across the built environment.
The framework defines sustainability through five core criteria:
- Potential, covering natural systems, resources, energy and carbon, social impact, and harms and solutions
- People, focusing on education, training and literacy, behaviours and teamwork
- Process, addressing finance and risk, practice, and tools and technologies
- Projects, encompassing land use and planning, external spaces, infrastructure and accessibility, and buildings
- Performance, which includes monitoring, information and feedback, resilience and adaptation, and emergency response
It also outlines five stages of competence for roles and functions: Recognise, Analyse, Apply, Achieve, and Advance.
A full copy of the framework can be downloaded here.
A free webinar presenting the Framework is being held on Wednesday 12 March at 1pm, you can register to attend here.
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