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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