Land sobriety: the Order of Chartered Surveyors launches a qualifying training course open to all stakeholders in regional planning and the living environment

Last July, the Order of Chartered Surveyors presented 17 proposals for "an effective and humanly acceptable land sobriety trajectory" at the conclusion of its National Land Sobriety Conference. Among these was the establishment of a complete and qualifying training course on the application of the Zero Net Artificialization trajectory, open to professionals in the land use planning and living environment sector.

After several months of work, the Order of Chartered Surveyors and its subsidiary Publi-Topex announced the launch of this new program and presented the 15 training modules that comprise it.

The first training course offering a global approach to the ZAN trajectory

The course is organized into 15 training modules grouped into 4 themes: the context of land sobriety; the "soil" component; the "land" component and the "built and living environment" component. It is open to all stakeholders in regional planning and the living environment: expert surveyors, of course, but also architects, town planners, landscapers, territorial agents, etc.

The objective of the system is twofold. Firstly, to provide the players in the sector with new skills by offering them an initial level of knowledge on all the issues and challenges covered by the ZAN trajectory. Then, to provide them with operational tools to concretely engage in a land sobriety approach.

This is the first time that a training course has offered coverage of this breadth on this subject - from the legal framework of land sobriety to the functional mix of commercial areas, including the raising of co-ownership buildings and the use of tools to improve soil quality. Furthermore, Publi-Topex, the subsidiary of the Order of Chartered Surveyors responsible for creating and running this training course, has favoured a multidisciplinary approach - the majority of the speakers are not chartered surveyors - to highlight the need to break down barriers between approaches.

An approach supported by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Renewal, which sits, through representatives of the General Directorate of Planning, Housing and Nature (DGALN), the profession's supervisory authority, on the educational committee responsible for developing and monitoring this training course.

Each training session lasts 3 hours, takes place as a webinar and will be limited to 20 participants in order to encourage discussion with the trainer.

Participants who complete the entire course will obtain a nominative qualification which will recognize the acquisition of new skills and which they will be able to assert to their stakeholders.

Registrations are open here, and the titles of the 15 training modules are detailed below.