Sue has championed zero-carbon, sustainable homes and communities for over 25 years. She co-founded purpose-led sustainability consultancy Bioregional in 1994 and initiated the iconic BedZED eco-village in London in 1997. Bioregional drew on this experience to develop their One Planet Living® sustainability framework, used in over $30bn of real-estate development to create gold standard sustainable communities.  In 2013 Sue received an OBE for services to sustainable business and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Today, Sue and the team support homebuilders, construction companies, asset owners and local authorities to realise their zero carbon and sustainability ambitions. With the quality of their work recognised with over thirty awards, including the Resi Award for professional services team of the year in 2023 and Green Business sustainability consultancy of the year in 2024.

Sue was appointed to the board of the Future Homes Hub in 2023, an independent organisation bringing together UK homebuilders with the wider sector, where Sue is currently contributing to a process with stakeholders to develop a more unified set of simplified higher voluntary standards for the sector to speed up delivery of better quality homes.