Buildings and Offsite

Philip Baker is the Construction Industry Council’s Deputy Health and Safety Champion and sits on the CIC Health and Safety Committee. Having trained as a Building Engineer and worked in design practice, Philip has spent the last 28 years embedded in all matters related to the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations, design risk management and

Piers Sadler, Director, Delta Q Piers established Delta Q to support clients and the construction supply chain in developing excellent Passivhaus buildings. Piers leads the Delta Q team on a range of mainly design and build Passivhaus schemes including low- and mid-rise social housing, community housing, schools, and EnerPHit, including a SEND school. Piers loves

Pippa Palmer, Research Strategist, LSBU and the LSBU/BSRIA Net Zero Building Centre Pippa Palmer is Curator of LSBU’s Climate Emergency Series and Research Strategist at LSBU. Her specialism is systems change in the built environment, particularly the challenges around renewable energy and energy market transformation. Pippa’s experience stems from a lengthy commercial career, delivering go-to-market

Rajat Gupta, Director, Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) and Low Carbon Building Research Group, Oxford Brookes UniversityRajat Gupta is Director of the multi-disciplinary Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development (OISD) and Low Carbon Building Research Group at Oxford Brookes University (UK). He holds a senior professorial chair in sustainable architecture and climate change. Rajat’s research

Rebecca Hall, Architect & Passivhaus Designer, Architype Rebecca has been closely involved in the development of a Passivhaus primary school in Wolverhampton. Her previous experience of working on low energy retrofit projects within constricted urban sites has given her a solid foundation in Passivhaus-informed energy strategies and the complex spatial planning required to reconfigure old

Richard Crosby, Director, Seismic Group Richard is recognised as an industry leading evangelist for production led construction process techniques, over the last 9 years he has instigated and led the pioneering an industry changing project to develop a physical product platform for the construction industry. The Seismic Platform is the exemplar case study in the

Richard Harral, Technical Director, CABE

Richard Hipkiss, Modular and Portable Buildings, Development Director, MPBA With an engineering background before moving into the construction industry in the early 2000’s, the impact of the fusion of manufacturing and construction comes as no surprise. Richard has been a Director of the MPBA for 5 years, setting up the Learning Hub to close the

Richard Smith, Head of Standards Innovation and Research, NHBC

Robyn Sparkes is Chartered Building Surveyor for the National Trust and member of Heritage Declares with a specialist interest in sustainability and historic buildings.

Sarah Partridge, Climate Programme Manager, Portakabin Limited With a background in Environmental Science, Sarah has taken responsibility for championing and driving forwards the journey to Net Zero at Portakabin. Sarah is a passionate advocate for how modular construction is key to sustainable development in a changeable world. She sees how MMC can provide flexible, moveable

Stuart Norris, Technical Product Manager, Portakabin A Technical Product Manager with over 25 years of experience in the modular industry. During his career Stuart has spent many years designing and developing innovative modular platform solutions for Portakabin Ltd.  These are for both temporary and permanent buildings across a wide range of sectors.  His early career

Susie Diamond, Partner, Inkling Susie is a partner at Inkling, a building physics consultancy specialising in using dynamic thermal simulation tools to predict the operational energy and thermal performance of buildings. She has worked in this field for more than 20 years. She was a lead author for the 2022 update of CIBSE TM54: Evaluating

Tom Dollard, Partner – Sustainability and Innovation, Pollard Thomas Edwards As partner of sustainability and innovation, Tom leads PTE’s ever-evolving zero carbon culture providing project teams with training, support and inspiration. He is focused on practical, implementable solutions that ensure a building’s in-use energy performance matches the design intent. Tom is a director of the

Tom Wigg, Senior Advisor – Net Zero Carbon Buildings, UKGBC Following a Master’s in astrophysics, Tom has spent the last 6 years working in sustainability in the built environment. Firstly, as a consultant delivering full spectrum sustainability and energy support on projects ranging from individual offices to mixed use, 10,000 home masterplans, before joining the