Duncan Cox, Associate Sustainability Director, Thornton Tomasetti
Duncan is an Associate Director and leads Thornton Tomasetti’s sustainability practice in London. Utilising his experience on a variety of high-profile projects he works closely with the structures and facades teams to incorporate sustainability into the design from concept through to delivery. Duncan’s team uses parametric design tools to consider the whole life carbon impacts of different iterations. This approach allows his team to consider both the operational and embodied carbon impacts of a design as well as daylight, glare, comfort etc. Duncan has emerged as a leading voice on whole life carbon in the industry with 10 years experience in embodied carbon data collection, R&D, tool development, and low-carbon specification & procurement strategy. Duncan set up the Embodied Carbon Lab at Thornton Tomasetti which is an internal global initiative to educate and inform. He is often invited to present, peer review and lead industry guidance on embodied carbon and is leading a LETI workgroup on Low Carbon Specification and Procurement, is a member of the UKNZS embodied carbon workgroup and co-authored the proposal for the IStructE SCORS target system. Duncan has also worked on international embodied carbon efforts where he instigated the US’s SE2050 commitment, has worked extensively with the Carbon Leadership Forum and is currently advising on New York’s net-zero policy.
