Building Skill in Professionals
Educating the industry; executive training for professionals
The best professionals never stop learning. We help them understand how enduring techniques can create sustainable spaces and places.
Our Building Skill in Professionals programme provides RIBA-accredited planning and development training. Our workshops bring architects, developers, builders and craftspeople together to learn from each other's passion, wisdom and experience.
The programme is delivered through seminars, masterclasses and walking tours.
Previous tours have visited Poundbury, the sustainably-build urban extention to Dorchester, and examined examples of urbanism in Shoreditch, Bath and Upton.
To find out more, please contact Bettina at Bettina.Balwah@princes-foundation.org, or on 020 7613 8566
Examples include:
POUNDBURY
Poundbury is a sustainable urban extension to Dorchester masterplanned by Leon Krier after the West Dorset District Council approached HRH The Prince of Wales in 1987. The tour explores Poundbury as a benchmark project which produces sustainable development appropriate in an era of rapid climate change and increasing urbanisation.
THE PRINCE'S HOUSE
We offer masterclasses and tours of The Prince's House. Built on the Innovation Park of the Building Research Establishment (BRE) at Watford. The project partners are BRE and Natural Building Technologies, who will work as consultants and material suppliers, and Kingerlee Homes. Building of the Prince's House began in 2009 and is now complete. The Innovation Park is open to both the building industry and the general public. We aim to showcase priciples of sustainable construction, the emphasis being on natural materials.
UPTON
We were brought in to create a sustainable urban extension that would promote best practice in sustainable urban growth. The existing masterplan, design code and energy-efficient homes create a highly efficient development while providing a comfortable, walkable environment. The tour highlights the different aspects of sustainability in the private and public sectors.
SHOREDITCH
Shoreditch and Spitalfields are small neighbourhoods in the London Borough of Hackney that were the first extensions from the medieval city. Shoreditch has been converted from an industrial neighbourhood full of Victorian warehouses to a successful, mixed-use arts neighborhood. Spitalfields Market thrives today as a centre of activity, as it has since 1638. The aim of the tour is to demonstrate the sustainable urbanism principles exemplified by traditional neighborhoods like Shoreditch. Such places evolve over time to adapt to changing markets and lifestyles, continuing to be active parts of the city.
BATH
Bath’s timeless architecture and urbanism are fine examples of how successful, beautiful cities are built. Our tour focuses on parts of Bath that exhibit the principles of sustainable urbanism. Bath’s timeless design incorporates harmonic architectural details, respects the complex character of the place and provides a legible street network on a human scale.