Profile
Key Projects
- Housing for social rent
- University faculty building
- UK’s first zero carbon competition
- Masterplan, design code and delivery of urban extension
- Near zero workplace prototype
- Listed farmhouse retrofit, extension and new annexe
- Industrialised retrofit at Thamesmead
- Passivhaus prototype competitions
Design Advisor/ Consultancy/ Industry Board Member
- RIBA Competitions Design Advisor: eg Sevenoaks Wildlife Centre , Bristol Arena, Nationwide Sustainable Housing https://www.architecture.com/awards-and-competitions-landing-page/competitions-landing-page
- Vice Chair of Cambridge Quality Panel https://cambridgeshireinsight.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Cambridgeshire-Quality-Panel-Member-Biographies-2016.pdf
- Design Commission for Wales: Design Review Panel https://dcfw.org/about/#page-30
- Awards Judge: eg Housing Design Awards, Sunday Times Homes Awards, Building Awards, LABC Quality Awards https://hdawards.org/
- Chair of Good Homes Alliance http://www.goodhomes.org.uk
- Green Construction Board Member http://www.constructionleadershipcouncil.co.uk/workstream/sustainability
Research / Design Research
- Green Construction Board Buildings Energy Mission Taskgroup: 2019 Recommendations as Chair and Background Report http://www.constructionleadershipcouncil.co.uk/
- Zero Carbon Hub: “Closing the gap between design and as-built performance” Chair of Design Working Group 2013-2014 http://www.zerocarbonhub.org/sites/default/files/resources/reports/Closing_the_Gap_Bewteen_Design_and_As-Built_Performance_Interim_Report.pdf
- Zero Carbon Hub: “MVHR:Ventilation & Indoor Air Quality” Chair of Taskgroup and report 2014 http://www.zerocarbonhub.org/sites/default/files/resources/reports/Mechanical_Ventilation_with_Heat_Recovery_in_New_Homes_Interim_Report.pdf
- Zero Carbon Hub: “Carbon Compliance: Future Climate Change” 2010 http://www.zerocarbonhub.org/sites/default/files/resources/reports/Carbon_Compliance_Topic_3_Future_Climate_Change.pdf
- “Low Carbon Buildings Standards Strategy for Scotland” 2007 and 2013 review as chair of expert panel https://www.gov.scot/binaries/content/documents/govscot/publications/progress-report/2013/11/low-carbon-building-standards-strategy-scotland-sullivan-report-2013-update/documents/00437438-pdf/00437438-pdf/govscot%3Adocument/00437438.pdf
Quick Resume
Experienced Architect & built environment professional specialising in sustainable development, regeneration, housing & health. Successful as strategic adviser and chairperson and at applied research, design research. Good strategic thinker; strong design leadership and collaborative skills; Good analytical, written, presentation & leadership skills; Longstanding proponent and champion of a collaborative approach to the environmental and climate change agenda for the built environment.