Ben Goldsmith, CEN

Ben Goldsmith Chair, Chief Executive, Conservative Environment Network and Chief Executive, Menhaden Plc Ben Goldsmith manages London-listed investment trust Menhaden Resource Efficiency Plc which invests in businesses at the forefront of energy and resource efficiency. Previously Ben co-founded WHEB Asset Management, one of Europe’s leading sustainability-focused fund management businesses. Ben chairs the UK Conservative Environment […]

Ben Goodwin, IEMA

Ben Goodwin, Head of Policy, IEMA Ben joined IEMA towards the end of 2020 to take up the role of Head of Policy. In this capacity he looks after the delivery of IEMAs core policy and practice outputs across a range of environmental and sustainability issues. Prior to joining the organisation Ben worked in several […]

Ben Heath, Grimshaw Architects 

Ben Heath, Principal, Grimshaw Architects Ben has been Head of Grimshaw’s Design Technology department since 1997. He has an impressive record of delivering award-winning projects in various sectors, such as culture, transport, commercial, retail, education, sports, hospitality and master planning, both in the UK and abroad. His notable works include Bijlmer ArenA Station in Amsterdam, […]

Ben Lowe, TG Escapes

Ben Lowe, Sales Surveyor, TG Escapes Ben has 5 years’ experience working with eco-modular design & build contractors, leading client engagement from initial contact and undertaking site surveys through to point of sale and beyond. During this time Ben has worked closely with clients, helping them to achieve their vision primarily on education projects ranging […]

Ben Smith, Arup

Ben Smith, Director for Energy and Climate Change Consulting, Arup Ben is an award-winning environmental consultant with twenty years’ experience delivering consultancy commissions for public and private sector clients in the UK, Europe and Australia. Ben has specialised in low carbon and renewable energy, climate mitigation (emissions reduction), climate resilience and sustainability strategy, spanning research, […]

Ben Westerman, Aldersgate Group

Ben Westerman, Head of Policy, Aldersgate Group Ben is Head of Policy at the Aldersgate Group, an alliance of businesses championing a competitive and environmentally sustainable economy. He is responsible for Aldersgate’s work covering industrial decarbonisation, energy, green finance, skills and productivity, and several other areas of the green economy, and sits on Government’s Green […]

Bola Abisogun OBE, BIM Academy

Bola is the Digital Director at BIM Academy and with an over arching intention to deploy digital twins into regulated professional services citing cultural change, Bola was appointed to sit on the Gemini Council at the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), and remains a co-author of the infamous Gemini Papers and the Digital Twin […]

Brittany Harris, Qualis Flow 

Brittany Harris, CEO and Founder, Qualis Flow Brittany is a Civil Engineer and Entrepreneur committed to delivering a more sustainable future for all. She is Co-founder and CEO of Qualis Flow, a tech company enabling construction teams to eliminate 100’s of hours of work, and £100,000’s of wasted materials, cutting carbon and waste from the […]

Brooke Rogers OBE, King’s College London

Brooke Rogers OBE, Chair, Behavioural Science and Security, King’s College London Professor Brooke Rogers OBE is a Professor of Behavioural Science and Security and Vice-Dean of People & Planning in the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy at King’s College London. Professor Rogers specialises in risk communication, public and practitioner attitudes to, perceptions of, […]

Cameron McKenzie, Peabody

Cameron McKenzie, Sustainability Officer, Peabody Cameron McKenzie is the Sustainability Officer at Peabody working alongside the Sustainability Team to push forward Peabody’s Sustainability Strategy and carbon objectives, which include an ambition to achieve net zero carbon in Peabody’s core activities by 2030 and its wider activities by 2050. Cameron has an MSc in Sustainable Energy […]

Cantor Mocke, Cantor Mocke, Head of Market Growth, DESNZ

Cantor Mocke, Head of Market Growth, Cantor Mocke, Head of Market Growth, DESNZ As the Head of Market Growth for Heat Networks Cantor is at the heart of governments work to enable the growth of decarbonised heat networks.  Delivering low-carbon heat networks that provide good quality services to consumers as part of a lowest cost pathway […]

Cara de Lange, Softer Success®

Cara de Lange is a specialist in the science of burnout. A visionary author, wellbeing consultant and corporate futurist, she founded Softer Success® to provide evidence-backed burnout solutions for businesses transforming the way we work. Working with the world’s top universities, researchers and psychologists, she created the ground-breaking, anonymous wellbeing assessment ‘A Walk Through the […]

Carl Harvey, Osmosis ACD

Carl Harvey, Retrofit Coordinator, Osmosis ACD Carl Harvey works as an independent retrofit coordinator at My Home Survey Ltd, a business that Carl established in 2007, and as the senior retrofit coordinator at Osmosis ACD Ltd overseeing the PAS 2035 process within the business. Carl was the Retrofit Coordinator on the BEIS PAS 2035:2019 demonstrator […]

Carlo Cosoleto, NATO

Carlo Cosoleto, BIM Manager, NATO Carlo started his career as project engineer for design and construction project offices and joined NATO in 2017. His major accomplishment to date has been coordinating the transition of NATO BIM models from Construction to Operations and Maintenance, and the integration with the facility management workflows and data systems. He […]

Carol Aitken, Vattenfall

Carol Aitken, Public and Regulatory Affairs Manager, Vattenfall Carol Aitken is the public and regulatory affairs for Vattenfall where she has worked for the past 4 years.    She has had a 20 year career in the energy sector having worked in the oil and gas sector including 12 years for Centrica,    At Vattenfall she […]

Carol Costello, Cullinan Studio

Carol Costello is an architect and Practice Leader at Cullinan Studio. She is currently developing strategies for circular economy specifications within the practice and retrofit strategies for buildings served by renewable heat networks. She is collaborating with the Alliance of Sustainable Building Products on research into reducing plastics in construction using the Marlborough Sports Garden […]

Caroline Cattini-Dow, Historic England

Caroline Cattini-Dow, CIBSE Retrofit in Heritage Committee, Principal Engineer & Building Services Engineering Team Leader,  Historic England Caroline Cattini-Dow is the Principle Building Services Engineer and Team Leader in the National Specialist Services Department at Historic England. Caroline has worked in building services engineering for over 30 years working in contracting and consultancy before joining […]

Caroline Withey

Caroline Withey

Caroline Withey is the Programme Director for the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), accountable for delivering the decarbonisation of this nation’s social housing through this Government grant fund.An experienced project and programme professional who has delivered transformational change and improved outcomes for various businesses and […]

Caron Johnson, Ministry of Justice

Caron Johnson, Sustainable Construction Lead, Ministry of Justice Caron Johnson is sustainable construction lead for the Ministry of Justice’s New Prison expansion plan, a £4bn programme to deliver 18,000 new prison places. In this role she has created new policies and raised standards to meet government ambitions on climate change mitigation, resource efficiency, nature recovery […]

Casey Rutland, digitalgreen.io 

Casey Rutland, Founding Director, digitalgreen.io Casey is a digital advocate with a focus on company transformation from a people perspective. With over 20 years of experience as an architect working in and leading multidisciplinary teams to deliver sports stadia, city centre developments, healthcare facilities and heritage buildings, he brings a clear, concise empathy-driven communication method […]

Cath Hassell, ech2o

Cath Hassell, Sustainable Water Expert, ech2o Cath Hassell Cath Hassell is an expert in sustainable water strategies and low-carbon technologies, formed from a background of 17 years in the plumbing industry and 22 years in environmental building. She is director of ech2o consultants ltd, a company that works at both a strategic and individual site […]

Catriona Brady, World Green Building Council

Catriona is the Director of Strategy and Development at the World Green Building Council. Her work is focused upon the strategic development and implementation of new global and regional projects and programmes for the World Green Building Council network, consisting of 70 national member councils, and their 36,000 members.As part of this role Catriona manages […]

Cerys Williams, Sero

Cerys Williams, Finance Partnerships Manager, SeroCerys is the finance partnerships manager at Sero, leading numerous green finance pilots with financial institutions to tackle residential decarbonisation within their portfolios.She has overseen the delivery of several innovative projects such as FLATLINE (Fixed Level Affordable Tariffs Led by Intelligently Networked Energy), VALUER (Valuations And Lending Underwriting Energy Reduction) as […]

Chaline Church, 540 WORLD

Chaline Church, Founding Partner, 540 WORLD, Regenerative Circular Design Consultants Chaline is an Interior Architect and Circular Materials Specialist. She has worked in marketing and design for over 20 years on corporate brands from financial, fashion, retail and health to engineering projects. She spearheaded hundreds of world-first products before co-founding health clinics and most recently […]

Charles Bradshaw-Smith, SmartKlub Ltd.

Charles Bradshaw-Smith, co-CEO SmartKlub Ltd Charles left the corporate world to establish SmartKlub because he believes community energy needs disrupting. Starting out in customer facing IT, Charles proved his innovation credentials by floating a dot com in personalised print and after successful exit joined E.ON in 2001, establishing its front office systems. In 2006 Charles […]

Charles Campion, JTP, Architects, Masterplanners & Placemakers

Charles is JTP’s Partner-in-Charge of Collaborative Placemaking working with communities and stakeholders on a range of urban and rural projects for the private, public and third sectors. In 2021 he was part of the JTP and Farrer Huxley team masterplanning Bailrigg Garden Village for Lancaster City Council (Winner Landscape Institute Awards 2022 Excellence in Masterplannng […]

Charlie Cooley, Novus Property Solutions

Mr Charlie Cooley, Head of Operations/Sustainability, Novus Property Solutions As Novus’ Head of Operations for its Scotland region and Sustain service, Charlie Cooley has over 25-years of experience within the housing and maintenance landscapes. He oversees the business’ Whitburn, Dundee and Dumfries operational offices in addition to leading, ensuring the teams provide a consistently high […]

Charlotte Garrett, KOPE

Charlotte Garrett, DfMA Lead, KOPE Charlotte is an Architect with extensive experience in Modular Housebuilding. Charlotte has led on design, managed complex multi-disciplinary teams, and advised on the delivery of many modular homes across the UK. Charlotte is DfMA Lead at KOPE, a purpose-built software platform for offsite construction. Managing the delivery of product features […]

Charlotte Large, Equans

Charlotte Large, Director – Strategy & Decarbonisation, Equans Charlotte has 20 years experience in low carbon energy working in consultancy, strategy and delivery roles within the private sector, local government and the civil service. Charlotte started her career as Sustainability Consultant for AECOM working on a range of energy, water and building environmental performance projects. […]

Charlotte Surrey, Green Register

Charlotte Surrey, Director, Green Register Charlotte Surrey Charlotte is a Director at The Green Register, a not-for-profit sustainable construction training organisation. She has over 20 years’ experience in project management, event management, marketing and business development including within the specialist sectors of the construction industry. She has been at the forefront of delivering sustainability upgrades […]

Chit Chong, Peabody

Chit Chong, Group Sustainability Manager, Peabody Chit Chong is currently the Group Sustainability Manager for Peabody. As a committed environmentalist with an MA in Industrial Design Engineering and an MSc in Environmental Monitoring, he has worked in housing sustainability for over 20 years. Chit has run sustainability projects on a wide range of topics including […]

Chloe Bullock, Materialise Interiors

Chloe Bullock is the founder of Materialise Interiors, an award-winning, Brighton-based interior design company working for clients in South East England and further away – online. She is a BIID Registered Interior Designer® at the British Institute of Interior Design. Chloe supports both entrepreneurs and home owners – designing with a focus on sustainability, health […]

Chloe Donovan, Natural Building Systems

Chloe Donovan is Managing Director of Natural Building Systems and Material Research Limited. Together these ventures are working symbiotically to create an award winning carbon-negative and bio-based modular system which marks a major step forward in sustainable construction. She is also Trustee of the Food Ethics Council and a founder of a farm based social […]

Chloe Holland, Flynn Interiors

Chloe Holland, Compliance Manager, Flynn Interiors  I began my career as a Site Administrator for a dry-lining company based at Battersea power station straight from school, within two years I was given the opportunity to take on more responsibility and grow within the industry. I have moved through the industry as a Construction Site Supervisor […]

Chris Bailey, Action on Empty Homes

Chris Bailey, National Campaigns Manager, Action on Empty HomesChris Bailey is National Campaigns Manager at Action on Empty Homes. Chris currently leads a project looking at housing development in London and how this could deliver better for those in housing need. He also works on the impact of Airbnb and short lets in taking housing […]

Chris Martin, Urban Movement

Chris Martin, Co-founder + Director of Urban Strategy, Urban Movement Christopher is an influential urban designer and planner working all over the globe to help communities improve their public spaces; as well as supporting cities and Governments to develop strategy, change policies, and make great places possible. He is Co-Founder and Director of Urban Strategy […]

Chris Twinn, Twinn Sustainability Innovation

Principal of Twinn Sustainability Innovation, Board Member LETI With a background is building design, planning, implementation and policymaking, Chris Twinn runs his own practice after 28 years with Arup as director & Arup Fellow. The premise behind much of his work is that a more efficient built-environment should use less natural resources and in turn […]

Christer Frennfelt, SWEP

Christer Frennfelt, Business Development Manager, SWEPChrister Frennfelt is a qualified Engineer and hold a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the faculty of engineering (LTH), Lund University, Sweden. He has gained extensive international experience. Most of his work has centered on Energy & Environment, particularly Energy Efficiency. Christer is certified Heat Network Consultant and Chartered […]

Christian Engelke, Technical Director, Viessmann Limited

Christian joined Viessmann in 2007, tasked with overseeing the manufacturer’s product portfolio for the UK. He is responsible for all technical matters, from product performance to systems design, as well as responsible for the Project division covering Viessmann’s industrial boilers, large biomass and CHP technologies. Originally a graduate of mechanical engineering, Christian began his career […]

Cinthia Espino Castillo, LETI Pioneers

Cinthia is an Associate Sustainability Coordinator at Foster + Partners and Chair of the LETI Pioneers workstream. She has experience performing environmental analysis including energy modelling, whole life carbon assessments and broader sustainability strategies for projects in the UK and worldwide. As part of the LETI Pioneers, she led the development of the LETI Pioneers […]

Claire Ackerman, MPA The Concrete Centre

Claire Ackerman, Executive Director, MPA The Concrete Centre Claire is Executive Director overseeing the concrete team at MPA. She has a wide remit with overall responsibility for UK Concrete and The Concrete Centre and works with the product groups BRMCA/MPA Ready-mixed Concrete, MPA Mortar, MPA Precast, MPA Masonry and MPA-affiliates Basement Information Centre, Construct and […]

Clara Bagenal George, LETI

Clara Bagenal George, LETI Clara Bagenal George is an associate at Introba (formally called Elementa Consulting) and chair of the technical steering group of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard on behalf of LETI. LETI is a network of over 1,000 built environment professionals, working together to put the UK on the path to […]

Clare Murray

Clare Murray, Studio Director – Sustainability at Levitt Bernstein  Clare has 15 years experience as a sustainability specialist. As Studio Director of Sustainability at Levitt Bernstein she oversees projects from concept through to implementation and post-occupancy evaluation, with experience in a range of sectors and scales. Clare regularly advises on ultra-low energy, Passivhaus, retrofit, whole […]

Colin Davis, Studio Partington

Colin Davis, Director, Studio Partington Colin has been a leader of Studio Partington since its formation in 1998 and is the strategic manager of business planning, procedures and systems, and quality assurance. Colin has completed many significant residential, commercial, and master planning projects. Colin was project lead for Putney Plaza, a large mixed- use and […]

Colin Goodwin, CIBSE

Colin Goodwin, Technical Consultant, CIBSE Colin formed CG Technical Property Services in 2020 to create an independent consultancy to provide high quality technical and operational advice to Design, Facilities, Property Management and Construction clients. Focused on improving outcomes for end clients and building occupants, using sound technical and management principals utilising a wealth of experience […]