The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) joins the EPF

The Environmental Policy Forum (EPF) is pleased to welcome our newest member, The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB), a professional body with approximately 50,000 members worldwide.

The EPF is a network of UK environmental professional bodies promoting environmental sustainability and resilience for the public benefit.

Collectively we now represent over 160,000 qualified professionals across a wide range of different specialised disciplines, often working in industry or the public sector and many running successful businesses.

Together, we influence UK environmental policy through a range of methods, including producing reports, holding webinars, conducting research, writing letters to Ministers, responding to Government consultations and submitting evidence to Select Committee inquiries.

Amanda Williams, Head of Environmental Sustainability at CIOB, said:

"CIOB is deeply committed to collaboration across industry and has many shared priorities with the Environmental Policy Forum, so we are delighted to join this coalition of professional bodies and learned societies promoting environmental sustainability and resilience for the public benefit.

"CIOB’s objectives, defined by our Royal Charter, include the promotion for the public benefit of the science and practice of building and construction as well as the advancement of public education in that area. No current definition of public benefit can neglect our role in tackling the environmental crisis, and CIOB provides visible leadership, promoting sustainability in construction practice, and advancing the development of knowledge and skills to enable members and wider industry to make a positive contribution to a sustainable future.”

Professor William Pope HonFSE CEnv CSci, EPF Chair, said:

“We are delighted to have welcomed the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) to the forum. The EPF now encompasses fifteen professional bodies and learned societies, all working together to make the case for our ten environmental priorities for policymakers. CIOB’s membership means representation from the built environment sector, a profession with a huge role to play if we are to achieve our environmental goals. Other sectors represented on the EPF include engineering, air quality, ecology, environmental sciences, water, forestry, fisheries, environmental management, health, landscape and resource management – a truly interdisciplinary collaboration.”

You can find out more about our newest member the CIOB via their website.