• Cairo

    Cairo

Sustainability, Energy and Change: Fundamentals of Transition Engineering

OBJECTIVES

  • Articulate and evaluate key sustainability challenges to their own organisation
  • Apply the Transition Engineering process to organisations or activities
  • Identify business risks of unsustainable activities and external trends
  • Evaluate the costs and benefits of transition products and services
  • Use strategic analysis to develop business opportunities

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This course is suitable to a wide range of technical professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Those who are involved at any level in functions of engineering, quality or environmental management, or in any energy-dependent functions of the organisation
  • Engineering and Technical Personnel involved in energy management, product development, logistics, procurement, transportation and energy efficiency

outline

Introduction and Historical Background of Sustainability and Unsustainability

  • Sustainability; the capacity for continuity into the long term future
  • Safe operating spaces and “unsustainability”
  • The importance of energy in human systems
  • Historical background to current global challenges
  • Historical responses to unsustainability
  • Overview of global problems of unsustainability

Future Scenarios and Introduction to Transition Engineering

  • EX The unsustainability challenges facing my organisation
  • Examples and use of future scenarios
  • The challenge of energy return on energy invested (EROI)
  • The problem of exponential growth
  • The relative usefulness of existing future scenarios for my organisation
  • Introduction to the Transition Engineering approach

Engineering, Change, and Thinking Differently

  • The role and responsibility of engineers in the change process
  • Path break concepts; envisioning a sustainable future
  • Sustainable models for economic activity and capital
  • Achieving resilience to external change
  • Examples of organisations that have made path-break changes for sustainability
  • Back-casting – working out how to get to where you want to be

Making it Happen - Planning a Program of Change

  • System thinking for change towards sustainability
  • The survival spectrum
  • Sustainability Principles – The Natural Step
  • Value Analysis
  • Creating a  vision of future success
  • Trigger Events – external and internal events that help avoid undesirable inertia

Tools for Analysis and Action Planning, Assessment

  • Core and non-core activities and how to treat them
  • From “More newer faster bigger” to “better”
  • Stakeholder analysis and engagement in change
  • Strategic analysis of unsustainabilityrisks
  • Energy auditing – using the ISO 50001 model to assess vulnerability
  • Assessment; multiple choice test

 

Training Methodology:
This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies as a percentage of the total
tuition hours:-
• 30% Lectures, Concepts, Role Play
• 30% Workshops & Work Presentations, Techniques
• 20% Based on Case Studies & Practical Exercises
• 20% Videos, Software & General Discussions

Certificates

A Certificate of Completion will be issued to those who attend & successfully complete the programme.

Schedule

  08:30 – 10:15 First Session

 10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:15 Second Session

 12:15 – 12:30 Coffee Break

12:30 – 14:00 Third Session

 14:00 – 15:00 Lunch

 Fees

 The Fee for the seminar, including instruction materials, documentation, lunch, coffee/tea breaks & snack is:

 

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