Services & Projects

Energy and Carbon

Low and zero carbon strategies and their implementation for new and existing buildings and wider sites or portfolios, from briefing and early design stages through to procurement, construction, as-built checks and operational monitoring and evaluation.Newjdlkghjak, Paragraph

Low and zero carbon policy analysis and development, including Building Regulations.

For CIBSE, member of the Technical Steering Group of the UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard, and lead for the Task Group on Operational Energy.

Part of a team led by Etude working since 2020 on the development of SAP to make it fit for Net Zero including new build homes (Future Homes Standard) and the existing stock .

Report for BEIS on the future of SAP / RdSAP (as CIBSE, in consortium led by Etude) Report for the Green Construction Board: Halving energy use in new buildings (with Etude)

CIBSE Climate Action Plan: a comprehensive plan covering the areas where CIBSE can support its members and the wider industry towards net zero carbon including policy, guidance, education, research, and training. To find out more:

November 2023 CIBSE Climate Action Plan (4th annual update) April 2020 Webinar with more details & how you can get involved

Environmental Sustainability

In-house advice to architecture practices to develop their sustainability expertise and services

Sustainability strategies and their implementation for new and existing buildings and wider sites or portfolios, from briefing and early design stages through to procurement, construction, as-built checks and operational monitoring and evaluation

Health and Well Being

Good Homes Alliance guidance on overheating in homes (with Inkling LLP). The version for new homes was published in 2020 and is freely available. It was adopted by the GLA in the London Plan. In 2022, we followed this with a Good Homes Alliance guidance and tool for overheating in existing homes and retrofits. This is also freely available. Do get in touch if you have any question or feedback. Author of revised CIBSE Technical Memorandum 40 Health & Wellbeing in Building Services, published March 2020

WELL Accredited Professional (WELL AP) services on large commercial offices

Co-editor of BSERT Special Issue on Health and Wellbeing, published March 2020

Building Performance and Post Occupancy Evaluation

Research into the influence of procurement on building performance (for Innovate UK, using the non-domestic Building Performance Evaluation projects):

Article on the project and findings, Professional Practices in the Built Environment conference, University of Reading, 2017 Procurement mapping tool: risk & mitigation factors, including application to case studies

Post-Occupancy Evaluation of leisure centre, including analysis of visitor satisfaction

Development of light-touch post-occupancy evaluation method:

Article on the project and findings, 11th International Conference on Sustainability in Energy and Buildings, 2019

Production of toolkit and guide on Building Performance Evaluation in housing, for Woodknowledge Wales (with Inkling, on behalf of the Good Homes Alliance).

Download the BPE toolkit and guide here.

Do get in touch if you would like to discuss the application of any of these in your projects.

Links to Higher Education

Regular lectures, workshops and design studios including the University of West of England Department of Architecture and the Built Environment and UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE, part of the Bartlett)

Advisory group member for the MSc Health, Wellbeing and Sustainable Buildings, UCL Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE, part of the Bartlett) Tutor at the Master in Interdisciplinary Design for the Built Environment, University of Cambridge (2019-21)