Last edited 11 Dec 2023
Diversity and inclusion
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[edit] Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Equity, diversity and inclusion should be at the forefront of everyone's minds when looking to improve and progress your organisation. Here is a wide range of content that can be applied across the built environment and beyond, to ensure everyone is welcome and included within the industry.
- A Blueprint for Change report.
- Apprenticeships and social mobility: Fulfilling Potential
- Balance for better: why lack of diversity is an issue for everyone.
- Boardroom to building site skills gap survey.
- Build a Better Future: The Built Environment and the Sustainable Development Goals (Bioregional)
- Building from the bottom-up: Recommendations to support the Construction Leadership Council’s Skills Plan (Building People)
- Building inclusivity: Laying the foundations for the future (RICS)
- Building Site to Boardroom (BS2B).
- Charter for diversity and inclusion in construction and special report launched by CIOB.
- Civil engineering and language
- Diversity and inclusion in the construction industry.
- Diversity in regeneration.
- Diversity in the construction industry.
- Diversity Wins - How Inclusion Matters (McKinsey)
- Equal opportunities policy.
- Equality Act.
- Equality and diversity: Good practice for the construction sector (EHRC).
- Flexonomics: The Economic and fiscal logic of flexible working
- Gender stereotypes examined in Unlimited Potential report.
- Inclusivity in engineering.
- Inclusive Employers Toolkit
- ISO 30415.
- Making cities more gender inclusive.
- Protected characteristics.
- Routes to Diversity & Inclusion (CIHT)
- Social value
- Socio-economic diversity in the real estate sector
- Supporting Diversity - Good Growth by Design (Mayor of London)
- To attract the right talent, offering flexibility and work-life balance will be essential.
- The Inclusive Culture Pyramid
- UandI Think event - The Age of No Retirement.
- Unconscious bias: Addressing workplace diversity (RICS)
[edit] Disability
- Disability Guide (Remploy)
[edit] Ethnicity
- Architecture is systemically racist (AJ)
- Ethnicity Pay Gap Report 2019 (CBRE)
- Investing in Ethnicity Maturity Matrix 2019 (appg)
- Race discrimination in the construction industry (EHRC)
[edit] LGBTQ+
- CIAT celebrates Pride 2020.
- Engineering equality: LGBT stories from ICE.
- LGBT in Construction: Exploring experiences to inform inclusive practices (CIOB)
- LGBT+ Toolbox Talk (Building Equality)
- London build: the talent pool in the lgbt community.
- Gender Transition, Expression and Identity Toolkit (CBRE)
- The Gender Bias Decoder
[edit] Mental health
- Building mental health in construction toolkit
- Dealing with stress, anxiety and change in difficult times - Webinar
- Education, Apprenticeships and how Industry can support to students into construction and engineering trades - Webinar
- How to look after the mental health of your workforce - Webinar
- Mates in Mind site pack.
[edit] Women
- Gender pay gap in construction.
- How to encourage women into engineering.
- Inclusive Value resource and toolkit
- International Women in Engineering Day 2018.
- International Women's Day 2017.
- Interview with Harriet Latimer - Graduate Design Engineer.
- The Future of Women in Architecture (Women in Architecture UK)
- The power of real balance (PWC/Real Estate Balance, 2017)
- Why so many women leave engineering.
- Women, Boards and the UK Built Environment (2017)
- Women in construction - building pace post-Brexit (Randstad, 2020)
- Women in Construction – the critical solution to a skills shortage.
- Women in the construction industry
- Women into Construction - online resources