Built By Us EDI Training
Over the past couple of weeks, we have had "Allyship and the Built Environment Training" and "Inclusive Leadership Training" hosted by Danna Walker from Built By Us. The sessions were enjoyed by the whole office covering themes including conscious and unconscious bias, allyship, employment rights and responsibilities, the Equality Act and workplace culture. Built By Us offered training with a specific relevance to working within the built environment and architectural sector.
This training underpins CGL's commitment to improving EDI within our own workplace culture, and a desire to push for a better, more diverse and inclusive built environment sector. Built By Us were invited to provide these sessions by our inhouse Diversity and Inclusion Group. The group has previously published the first edition of the Diversity and Inclusion Manifesto: "A manifesto for a better industry, to enable a representative body of architectural professionals, and to ultimately enrich the profession and architectural discourse."
The manifesto’s 7 key themes to improve the industry:
Celebrate
Represent
Enable
Impact
Challenge
Embed
Reflect
CGL have also committed to the NLA Diverse Leaders Pledge, a programme developed specifically for Built Environment sector companies to address EDI across three key themes: Recruitment, Progression and Advocacy.
We look forward to publishing more about the work that we are doing to tackle issues relating to Diversity, Inclusion and Equity in the coming months, as well as outlining more of what we do to provide Social Impact through the work that we do, and to support the communities we have the responsibility to design for.
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