Competence framework for sustainability in the built and natural environment

the Edge is currently working through the CIC’s Climate Change Committee on the development of an overarching framework for competence in delivering sustainability in the built and natural environment. The framework will be published as a BSI Flex standard and is intended to provide commonality and consistency across the sector and become the basis for all organisations developing their own discipline-specific competency documents and curricula.

Central to the Flex document is the proposition that competence is a combination of skills, knowledge, experience and behaviour (SKEB) and these are broken down into categories preliminarily proposed as:

·       Potential (Natural systems/Resources/Energy and carbon/Social value/Harms and solutions);

·       People (Education, training and literacy/Behaviours/Teamworking);

·       Process (Finance and risk/Practice/Tools and technologies);

·       Projects (Land use and planning/External spaces/Infrastructure and accessibility/Buildings); and

·       Performance (Project monitoring, information & feedback/Resilience and adaptation/Emergency response).

A scoping paper giving further details and examples of the contents of each of the categories is available here

The latest Note (#4) on the development of the Flex is available here

Should you or you organisation wish to input into the development of the framework please get in contact with or comment on its preliminary scoping document at contact@edgedebate.com.