Building Inclusion A Practical Guide to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Architecture and the Built Environment

Building Inclusion: A Practical Guide to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Architecture and the Built Environment is just that ? a manual to support and provide essential guidance to the profession on these key issues. Acknowledging that the existence of EDI procedures does not necessarily ensure their use, it focusses on demonstrating behaviours that help create, implement, and enforce policies, procedures, and practices to deliver inclusion.

Written by Marsha Ramroop, former inaugural EDI Director at the RIBA and award-winning EDI strategist, the book targets the pain points of talent attraction and retention, public sector procurement, community engagement, and inclusive design. It utilises case studies from organisations across the sector and the world with successful EDI practices, as well as testimonials of lived experiences of discrimination which provide important insight to the reader. The book takes an intersectional approach, considering not just the separate identities of race, ethnicity, nationality, age, gender and sexual identity, disability, neurodiversity, and class but the overlap of these.

Clearly written and accessible, with key points at the end of each chapter, this book is essential reading for those in the profession seeking to implement EDI practices in their work and workplace.

Introduction BEHAVIOURS 1. How to Create a Culture of Inclusion 2. STREAM your EDI: The Principles of Support, Time, Resource, Effort, Agency & Money 3. Holding yourself Accountable & Taking Responsibility ATTRACT & RETAIN 4. Inclusion in the Workforce Lifecycle CREATE 5. Inclusive Design, Development & Delivery 6. Inclusive Procurement & Supplier Diversity ENGAGE 7. Inclusion in Community Engagement & External Stakeholder Management Conclusion

Marsha Ramroop is a global award-winning inclusion culture strategist, working across sectors but with a mission to drive change in the built environment and engineering professions, believing these two pillars create our societies, and that if she can influence those sectors to be inclusive, she can influence a more inclusive world. She does this through her business, Unheard Voice Consultancy Ltd. She has also been working as Executive Director of Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion at Building People CIC, a network of networks for equity, diversity and inclusion in construction and the built environment. Marsha was the inaugural Director of Inclusion and Diversity at the Royal Institute of British Architects, before which she had a 30-year career in broadcasting and journalism, including 20 years at the BBC.

She’s a Life Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, a Fellow of the Institute of Diversity and Equality Professionals and has been appointed to the International Advisory Council of the Institute of Business Ethics.

Marsha lives in Derbyshire with her husband and two daughters. To find out more about her work visit: www.unheardvoice.co.uk