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Skills

Skills and knowledge

 

A lack of relevant skills is one of the barriers to improving the design quality of the built environment. Here you can find out where to go to get the skills, qualifications and knowledge you need to work in the built environment, whether you are new to the field or upskilling. Careers in the built environment include architecture, urban design, planning, surveying, landscape architecture and engineering.

 What's it like to work in the built environment?

To find out what it’s really like to work as a Planner, Urban Designer or Architect, listen to our interviews with young and inspiring professionals working in the built environment.

Designer, Wayne Hemingway

Chair of Building for Life; Chair of the South Coast Design Forum; Co-Founder of Hemingway Design

Planner, Richard Jones

EDAW, London

Urban Designer, Sarah Winge-Sorensen

EDAW, London

Environmental Designer, Emma Marchant

atelier ten, London

Architect, James Kay

Moxley Architects, London