CPD in the Built Environment
Greg Watts, Norman Watts
- 194 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
CPD in the Built Environment
Greg Watts, Norman Watts
About This Book
The aim of this book is to provide a single source of information to support continuing professional development (CPD) in the built environment sector.
The book offers a comprehensive introduction to the concept of CPD and provides robust guidance on the methods and benefits of identifying, planning, monitoring, actioning, and recording CPD activities. It brings together theories, standards, professional and industry requirements, and contemporary arguments around individual personal and professional development. Practical techniques and real-life best practice examples outlined from within and outside of the industry empower the reader to take control of their own built environment-related development, whilst also providing information on how to develop fellow staff members. The contents covered in this book align with the requirements of numerous professional bodies, such as the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), and the Chartered Institute of Builders (CIOB).
The chapters are supported by case studies, templates, practical advice, and guidance. The book is designed to help all current and future built environment professionals manage their own CPD as well as managing the CPD of others. This includes helping undergraduate and postgraduate students complete CPD requirements for modules as part of a wide range of built environment university degree courses and current built environment professionals of all levels and disciplines who wish to enhance their careers through personal and professional development, whether due to professional body requirements or by taking control of identifying and achieving their own educational needs.
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1 What is continuing professional development?
1.1 Introduction
1.1.1 History of continuing professional development
- Identify the gap in your knowledge, skills, or experience.
- Find and attend a course or activity that will fill the gap.
- Record the event.
- Apply the knowledge, skills, or experience gained.
- Reflect on the learning and development.
- Repeat.
A Building Surveyor may identify a gap in knowledge in understanding Sustainable Draining Systems (SUDS) a more environmentally friendly approach to managing drainage in and around properties. The surveyor identifies a 2 day course, enrols, and completes it gaining a successful completion certificate. As a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, the surveyor records the event in their RICS CPD log. However, the surveyor does not get the chance to use this new knowledge in any future work. You could reasonably conclude then that this event has been a waste of time for the surveyor and the knowledge had no tangible merit in their professional development.However, on further reflection the course could have had merit in some other less-tangible way such as team building skills if the course happened to have used working in teams as part of the course delivery mechanism. Subsequently for step 4 the surveyor could apply the knowledge, skill gained on the course it just happened to be in teambuilding on a challenging new project not in using SUDS knowledge.
1.2 Benefits to the practitioner
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