Speakers

Rachel is a Chartered Meteorologist, with over 18 years’ experience in the construction sector. Her expertise encompasses sustainability, metrics, environmental product declarations (EPDs) and international reporting of sector greenhouse gas emissions and sinks, together with climate risk, resilience and adaptation.
She leads the UK Concrete sustainability data collection programme, including annual sector reporting to government for inclusion in official statistics, development of product and sector metrics, and Life Cycle Assessment for Environmental Product Declarations. She created the MPA sector EPDs for cement and ready-mixed concrete and is a keen advocate for their appropriate use, especially in early-stage design.
Rachel also led a DESNZ funded consortium to model the carbon emissions sink due to carbonation of concrete to inform the UK’s international climate reporting to the IPCC. She is leading global industry collaboration on development of carbonation methodologies for IPCC greenhouse gas inventory reporting and has been selected as a lead author for the 2027 IPCC Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal and CCUS. She is active in numerous industry committees and task groups, including the UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard, UKGBC and Eco Platform.