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Technical Steering Group

The Technical Steering Group (TSG) is comprised of:

Jane Anderson - WLCN 

Will Arnold - IStructE

Clara Bagenal George - LETI  (Chair May 2022 - December 2023)

Adam Baranowski - BBP

Julie Godefroy - CIBSE

Jess Hrivnak - RIBA

Christine Pout - BRE

Tom Wigg - UKGBC

Katie Clemence-Jackson - QODA Consulting (Chair December 2023 - October 2024)

Matthew Collins - RICS (May 2022 - August 2023)

Nektarios Gkanis - Carbon Trust (May 2022 - February 2024)

Fabrizio Varriale - RICS (August 2023 - present)

Sam Wallis - Envision (2024 - present)

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Management and Technical Support:

Rosie Bard (Orms) - Technical Project Manager, January 2024 - October 2024

Katie Clemence-Jackson (QODA Consulting) - Technical Project Manager, January 2023 - December 2024

Zoe Black (RIAS) - Project Administrator

Annika Buser (BBP)Project Administrator

Gemma White (Overbury)Project Administrator

Issy Budd (WASPS Studios) - Project Administrator

Ellie Burkill (XCO2) -  Task Group 1c Secretariat and additional project management support

Faidon Christodoulou - Sector Group Project Manager 2022-23

Daniel Doran (Lifecycle Sustainability) - Technical Writer

Ciara Durkin (Laing O’Rourke) - Technical Secretariat 

Gilbert Lennox-King (Construction Carbon) - Interim Project Manager Sep - Dec 2022

Jack Poulton (SimpsonHaugh Architects) - Consultation Insights Analyst

Matt Cox (Arup) - Governance Board Project Manager 2022

Karen Shi (Cundall) - Targets and Limits Project Manager 2023

Zoe Watson (Zoe Watson Consulting) Sector Group Project Manager 2024

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Comms and Stakeholder Engagement Support:

Alex Johnstone (Architype) - Website support

Beth Blomfield (LETI) - Comms support

Brooke Penman (UKGBC) - Comms support and Press Release

Clare Murray (Levitt Bernstein/LETI) - Graphic Design

Erika Petrova (Hawkins\Brown) - Graphic Design

Julia Galves (Hawkins\Brown) - Graphic Design

Julia Skeete (SOM) -  Stakeholder Engagement Lead

Lesley Graham (RICS) - Graphic Design

Lucy Whitman (CIBSE) - Comms support

Lynn Urbanik (Passivhaus Trust) - Communications Manager 

Mary Costello (LETI) - Comms support

Matt Broad (Arup) - Communications Lead 2022-23

Mina Hasman (SOM) - Stakeholder Engagement Lead

Panos Balalas (CIBSE) - Comms support

Phoebe MacDonald (RIBA) - Public Affairs

Ruby Oshea (RIBA) - Press Release Coordination

Samuel Leeson (RIBA) - Public Affairs

Sophie Tysoe (BBP)Comms support & Administrator

 

 

 

 

 

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Our Governance Board includes founding and observer members. They are: 

​Related Argent - David Partridge (Chair)

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Founding Members

BBP - Sarah Ratcliffe 

BRE - Jonathan Rickard

CIBSE - Anastasia Mylona

IStructE - Patrick Hayes 

LETI - Chris Twinn 

RIBA - Judit Kimpian

RICS - Charlotte Neal & Amit Patel

UKGBC - Smith Mordak 

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Observer Members

ICE - Lewis Barlow

PIA - Bill Hughes

RIAS - Angel Morales-Aguilar, Chris Stewart

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Task Groups

Task Group 1a - Operational Energy

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Adam Baranowski - Climate Change Lead - BBP (Member of TSG)

Alexia Sofia Charisi - Associate- Savills Earth

Amrita Dasgupta Shekhar – Head of ESG and Net Zero - Greengage Environmental Ltd.

Antonietta Canta - Decarbonisation & Resilience Associate - Arup

Colin Rees - Associate Director - IES

David Adams - Director - David Adams Consulting

Douglas Drewniak - Senior Sustainability Manager - Building Performance - Willmott Dixon Construction

Eimear Moloney - Director of Operational Assets - Hoare Lea

Frankie Demetriades - ESG Manager – abrdn

Gillian Brown - Senior Manager Sustainable Design – Lloyds Banking Group

Henry Ibitolu - PhD Researcher - School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh (Task Group 1a Secretariat)

Ingrid Berkeley - Principal Sustainability Consultant - Max Fordham LLP

Joe Jack Williams - Partner - Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Julie Godefroy - Head of Net Zero Policy - CIBSE (Member of TSG)

Luisa Brotas - Sustainability and Infrastructure Lead- Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

Malcolm Hanna - Senior Sustainability Manager - Legal & General

Marion Baeli - Principal, Sustainability Transformation - 10 Design 

Neil Granger - Senior Director, Head of Sustainability - TFT Consultants

Nils Rage - Head of ESG - Stanhope plc

Rachel Mitchell - Researcher - UK Passivhaus Trust

Robert Cohen - Technical Director - Verco

Robin Pritchett - Head of Building Performance - Cundall

Ruairi Revell - Head of Real Estate ESG - Abrdn

Sarah Lewis - Research and Policy Director - UK Passivhaus Trust

Sukriye Robinson - Architect - Skidmore Owings and Merrill

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Task Group 1b - Embodied Carbon

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Will Arnold - Head of Climate Action - The Institution of Structural Engineers (Task Group Chair)

Fabrizio Varriale - Place & Space Analyst - RICS (Task Group Sub-chair)

Adam Graveley - Head of Technical and Innovation - Future Homes Hub

Alexia Laird - Sustainability Director - Landsec

Alice Moncaster - Professor of Sustainable Construction – UWE 

Andrew Swain - Group Sustainability Manager - I M Properties

Chris Brown - Director - Climatise

Daniel Tomlinson - Associate Director - GWP Architecture

Duncan Cox - Associate Director, Sustainability- Thornton Tomasetti

Fiona Lomas-Holt - Director, Sustainability - Turley

Hugh Dugdale - Director – Hines 

Ian Poole - Associate Sustainability - Elliott Wood / Senior WLC Officer - Westminster City Council

Louisa Bowles - Head of Sustainability- Hawkins\Brown

Marika Gabbianelli - Senior Decarbonisation Consultant - WSP

Orlando Gibbons - Senior Engineer- Arup

Pat Hermon - Technical Lead- BRE

Philip Guthrie - Associate Director - Hydrock

Rosie Bard - Associate - Orms

Taby Halliwell - Associate - Savills Earth 

Tom Tang - Consultant - AtkinsRéalis   (Task Group 1bSecretariat)

Will Wild - Representative - Centre for Window & Cladding Technology

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Task Group 1c - Top Down

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Jess Hrivnak - Practice Technical Adviser (Sustainability) - RIBA (Member of TSG & Task Group Co-Chair)

Tom Wigg - Senior Advisor - UKGBC (Member of TSG & Task Group Co-Chair)

Angie Bara - ESG Associate - Ecotectural

Ben Ross - Head of Aim for Zero Real Estate - Verco (to Jun 2023)

Ben Hopkins - Senior Associate - Bennetts Associates

Ellie Burkill - Graduate Sustainability Consultant - XCO2 (Task Group 1c Secretariat and additional project management support) (to Sep 2023)

Greg Waring - Senior Building Performance Engineer - Arup

Helen Bennett - Principal Architect - Helen Bennett Projects

Harper Robertson - Senior Consultant - Ricardo Energy & Environment

Janine Campbell – formerly Inhabit (Task Group 1c  Secretatriat)

Jannik Giesekam - Chancellor's Fellow - University of Strathclyde (to Dec 2022)

Madeline Homewood - Associate Sustainability Engineer- JLL

Lorenzo De Donatis - ICL Manager - IES

Peter Swallow - Sustainability Manager (Europe) - Grimshaw

Rachel Capon - UK Concrete Sustainability Programme Coordinator - Mineral Products Association Ltd

Simon Hatherley - KTP Research Associate - AHMM

Shane Hughes - Director of corporate Net Zero Services - Ramboll

Snigdha Jain - Director, ESG & Sustainability- Turley (to Jun 2023)

Tom Spurrier - Director Sustainability- Hoare Lea

 

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Task Group 2 - Carbon Accounting

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Anna Tsoumi - Associate Director - Hilson Moran

Brett Ormrod - Director, Net Zero Carbon Lead - LaSalle Investment Management

Christine Pout - Principal Consultant - BRE (Member of TSG)

Cinthia Espino Castillo - Associate Senior Sustainability Coordinator - Foster + Partners

Dave Worthington - Managing Director - Verco

Dr Yair Swartz - Lecturer & Researcher - UCL

Erik Landry - Director, Climate Change - GRESB

Hugo Bennetts - Junior Consultant - Eunomia Research & Consulting

Isabella Valencio - Senior Sustainability Consultant- Planet Mark

Jane Anderson - Owner - Construction LCA

Kartik Amrania - Head of Building Sustainability Team - Sweco UK Limited

Nick Gorrie - Associate Director of Sustainability - Engineering Services Consultancy

Paul Parker - Carbon Specialist - Ramboll

Richard Twinn - Associate Director - Buro Happold

Rowan Packer - Executive Director of Sustainability - MAPP

Simon Leek - Company Carbon Manger - Sir Robert McAlpine

Sarune Ringelyte - Principal Sustainability Consultant - Savills UK

Xander Opoku - Architect & Sustainable Design Consultant - Atkins

Adam Baranowski - Climate Change Programme Lead - Better Buildings Partnership (Member of TSG)

Nektarios Gkanis - Senior Manager & Commercial Real Estate Lead- The Carbon Trust (Member of TSG April 2022-February 2024)

Simon Sturgis - Targeting Zero LLP​

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Task Group 3 - Reporting, Disclosure & Verification

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Aazraa Pankan - Sustainability Consultant - Introba (formerly Elementa Consulting)

Andrew Frost - Associate Director - Thomson Environmental Consultants

Christine Pout - Principal Consultant - BRE (Member of TSG)

Doug Morwood - CEO - Insight Futures CIRRCLE Ltd

Emma Morgan - Building Performance Analyst - Carbon Futures

Faidon Christodoulou - Senior Manager - Sustainability - Amazon 

Francesca Wilkinson - Sustainability & Environmental Manger - Willmott Dixon

Gilbert Lennox-King - CEO - Construction Carbon

James Parker - Senior Sustainability Manager - Clarion Housing Group  

Jonathan Li - Associate Director - Savills UK

Mark Jenkinson - Director - Crystal Associates

Matthew Pygott - Principal Carbon Consultant - Hydrock

Nathan Millar - Partner - Environmental Design - Foster + Partners

Poppy Parsons - Head of Low Carbon Construction - Galliford Try

Rakesh Vazirani - Head of Sustainability services - TÜV Rheinland

Ross Holleron - Head of Innovation - Sero

Sam Wallis - Director - Envision (Member of TSG & Task Group Leader)

Tom Saunders - Co-Founder/Managing Director - Sintali 

Tony Legerton - Technical Manager - NG Bailey

Xuecheng Wang - Junior Designer - Pilbrow and Partners

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Sector Groups

Commercial residential (e.g. student residential, care homes)

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Ankit Singh - Waterman (Group Lead)

Ara Nik - LifeProven

Christos Skordis - Savills 

Darren Evans - Darren Evans Ltd 

Davey McElwee - Waterman    

Gary Frame - AtkinsRéalis 

Gilles Alvarenga - Cundall

Hiba Talmoust - Waterman  (Co-Lead)

Kiro Tamer - Keltbray  

Michael Brogden - Darren Evans Ltd

Mike White - Smith and Wallwork  

Peter Bentley

Peter Mayer - Thomas Miller  

Peter Savill - AtkinsRéalis  

Sam Luker - AESG  

Sarah Linnell - Cundall  

Serena Gugliotta - WSP  

Sofi Zickerman White - LifeProven

Tom Lelyveld - AECOM  

 

With special thanks to Dylan Kenny and Niall McGowan - Lamorbey Associates for modelling inputs

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Culture and entertainment

 

Andrew Frost - Thomsonec

Ben Hopkins - Bennetts Associates

Ben Melham - Mortice Consulting  

Catherine Cosgrove - Austin-Smith:Lord 

Christian Wallace - Charcoalblue 

Claire Buckley - Julie's Bicycle

Colin Darlington - Max Fordham LLP

Daniel Kew - Bennetts Associates (Group Co-Lead)

Diana Dina - Haworth Thompkins

Harry Sumner - Bennetts Associates

Kathryn Simpson - National Museums Directors Council

Klara Svoboda - Bennetts Associates (Group Co-Lead)

Mark Barry - Architype

Natasha Watson - Buro Happold

Oliver Heywood - Allies and Morrison

Peter Fisher - Bennetts Associates (Group Co-Lead)

Richard Boston - V&A

Will Mesher - Haworth Thomkins

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Data Centres

 

Anders Eklund - Hoarelea

Andrew Shaw - Lloyds Bank

Ed Hoare - Arup

Iain MacDougall  (Group Lead)

Jon Nuttall - Hoarelea

Matthew Baynes - Schneider Electric

Sean Davin - Arup

Simona Vasinton – Equinix

Thomas Mcdonagh - Red

Tom Spurrier - Hoare Lea

Alex Doey - RED

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Healthcare

 

Hope Lovelady - Mott Macdonald (Group Lead)

Adam Newman - Turner & Townsend

Alex Pitman - Alder Hey NHS Trust

Ben Barker - Hoare Lea

Christopher Pottage - Currie & Brown

Colin Rees - IES

David Buick - AECOM

Ian Poole - Elliot Wood

Ross Wood - ISG

Ryan Dunne - Arup (Group Lead)

Sam Luker - Consult Sustainability

Serena Gugliotta - WSP

Tassos Kougionis - McBains

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Heritage Expertise

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Amad Kayani - Historic England

Andy Haigh - Grosvenor (Group Lead)

James Sibson - Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (Co-chair)

Jill Fairweather - Cadw, Welsh Government

Joe Jack Williams - Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios 

Matthew King - National Trust

Miguel Godfrey - Government Property Agency

Sarah Khan - Roger Mears Architects

Samantha Organ - National Trust / University of the West of England

Soki Rhee-Duverne - Historic England (Co-chair)

William Bordass - Usable Building Trust

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Higher Education

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Andrew Wholley - Mott MacDonald

Claire Akparanta - University of Aberdeen

Gillian Brown - Lloyds Banking Group

Greg Hardie - Arup

Helena Tinker - Manchester Met

Joe Croft (Group Lead)

John Bailey - Turner & Townsend

Karen Turnbull - AtkinsRéalis

Mehdi Shahrestani - University of Reading

Mike White - Smith and Wallwork

Philip Mannis - Hoare Lea

Simon Leek - Sir Robert McAlpine

Zoë Glander – Overbury & Morgan Lovell

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Homes

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Adam Graveley - Future Homes Hub

Alex Baines - Saint Gobain

Bryce Gilroy-Scott - Centre for Alternative Technology

Chris Brown - Climatise

David Adams - Future Homes Hub

David Leversha - WSP

Emma Francois - WSP

Emma Taylor-Beale - Daikin

Gary Frame - AtkinsRéalis

George Martin - Building Performance Network

John Alker - L&G

Julian Brooks - Good Homes Alliance CIC

Kat Adair - Ridge & Partners

Katie Cairns - Assael

Louise Clarke - Berkley Group- (Group Co-Lead)

Marc Seligmann - Maccrenor Lavington

Marcos Navarro - Natwest

Pete Marsh - Vor Group

Ryan Philp - Dalkin

Sam Cannon - Daikin

Sophia Ceneda ​- Howells 

Tom Kordel - XCO2 (Group Co-lead)

Victoria Thorns - London Legacy Development Corporation

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Hotels

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Areti Makantasi - JLL

Carol Lock - RSP Consulting Engineers LLP

Hugo Marques - GEG Engineering

Ian Steward - Recoup

James Allison - Bennetts Associates

Jorge Abarca Montero - WSP

Katarzyna Lewandowska - Bennetts Associates

Nelly Martinez - F+P (Group Lead)

Oleksandr Poborskyy - Cundall

Rodrigo Martinez 

Thibald Gerardin - Cushman & Wakefield

Yilin Wang - Ramboll

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Logistics/Warehouses

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David Leversha - WSP (Group Lead)

Ellen Jones - ISG

Frankie Demetriades - abrdn

Hannah Bailey - JLL

James Lomas-Holt - RIDGE

Jamie Baxter - Carter Jonas

Jonathan Trice - Omega RE

Jorge Abarca Montero - WSP

Kat Adair - RIDGE

Luke Blyth - Hoare Lea

Michael Sansom - Steel Construction

Mohamed Abushariah

Peter Bartley - AEW Architects

Sarah Chipchase - RIDGE

Theodor Bratosin - Cundall

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Offices

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Alexia Laird - Landsec

Alice Jackson - Hoare lea

Andrew Moore - Hilson Moran

Anja Schellenbauer - JRA

Ankit Singh - Waterman

Asif Din - Perkins & Will

Ben Hopkins - Bennetts Associates

Bev Taylor - Bruntwood

Carolina Caneva - Hilson Moran

Celine Mcloughlin-Jenkins - Aecom

Chantal Beaudoin - Knight Frank Investment Management

Daniel Skidmore - AECOM

David Kingstone - Buro Happhold

David Healy - WSP

Debbie Hobbs - CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (Group Lead)

Edwin Wealend - Longevity Partners

Elina Grigoriou - Grigoriou Interiors

Hala El Akl - Oxford Properties

Harry Sumner - Bennetts Associates

Ian Keenleyside - ISG

Katarzyna Lewandowska - Bennetts Associates

Laura Beaumont - Helical plc

Malcolm Hanna - Legal & General

Manas Bane - SRE

Matt Brinklow - Mace

Michael Nogas - Accenture

Neil Pennell - Landsec

Patrick Ho - Swire Properties

Peter Williams - British Council for Offices/ Stanhope

Robert Cohen - Verco

Salem Qunsol - Verte

Stephen Hill - ARUP

Will Belfield - Hoare lea

Zoë Glander – Overbury & Morgan Lovell

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Retail

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Alex Munro - ISG 

Ana Sofia Narro Vallejo - Longevity

Apryl Pheasant - Sainsburys

Chris Croly - BDP

Eimear Moloney - Hoare Lea 

Emily Cao - Colliers

Jamie Wise - DTZ Investors 

Maria Spyrou - Turner & Townsend 

Mark Gardiner - MJC Environmental Services 

Neil Pennell - Landsec 

Quinten Babcock - Transport for London 

Richard Groves - Places for London

Robert Deacon - Grosvenor 

Rob MacWhannell - BBP 

Samuel  Ukeke - Turner & Townsend 

Yorgos Koronaios - Savills Earth

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Schools

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Christian Dimbleby - Architype

David Buick - AECOM

Emily Cao - Colliers

Fiona Brazill - Capita Public Services (Group Lead)

Hareth Pochee - Max Fordham

Jack Dempster - Woolgar Hunter 

Kamar Zaman - MITIE Energy

Katie Carter - Galliford Try

Malcolm Buchanan - Woolgar Hunter

Marc Walsh - Unilin Insulation

Matthew Teague - Tata Steel

Matt Wrate - Chord Consult

Paola Pappas - Woolgar Hunter

Peter Courtenay -  Bouygues

Poppy Parsons - Galliford Try

Rhodri Davies - ISG

Robert Hopkins - AHR

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Science and Technology

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Adeel Ahmed - Introba (formerly Elementa Consulting)

Andrea Botti - Stanton Williams

Andrew Somerville - Hoare Lea

Carl McKenzie - DEFRA

Gary Clark - HOK

Jack Tinsley - Hoare Lea

James Warne - WME

Liam Nicholls - Creative Places 

Margarita Chorafa - Introba (formerly Elementa Consulting)

Matt Butler - Arup

Nathan Millar - Foster & Partners

Nicola Carniato - AKT II

Shane Mellon - Hoare Lea

Silviu Pirvu - Optimal Cities

Simon Ebbatson - Ridge & Ptnrs (Group Lead)

Simon Wyatt - Cundall

So Young Hyun - Sodexo

Will Fogden - Kadans Science Partner

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Sport and Leisure

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Gemma Christian - Expedition (Group Lead)

Graham Finnie - Sportscotland

Jonathan Tobin - EP&T

Mark Palmer - Max Fordham

Nicolas Beltran - EP&T

Nuno Correia - WilkinsonEyre

Paul Toyne - Grimshaw

Additional Support

Alex Johnstone - Architype

Annika Buser - BBP

Beth Blomfield - LETI

Brooke Penman - UKGBC

Clare Murray - Levitt Bernstein/LETI

Erika Petrova - Hawkins\Brown

Gemma White - Overbury

Julia Galves - Hawkins\Brown

Mary Costello - LETI

Matt Cox - Arup

Sophie Tysoe - BBP

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Data Providers

AECOM

AEW

AHMM

AHR

Anne Thorne Architects LLP

Architype ltd

Argent LLP

Arup

Atkins

Bam

BDP

BE Design

Big Yellow Group

Bouygues

Bruntwood

Bryden Wood

Buro Happold

BWB Consulting

Certified

Chapman bdsp

City of London

Commercial Services Group

Cundall

Curtins

Cushman and Wakefield

Davies Maguire

dRMM

DEFRA

Eckersley O'Callaghan Engineers

Fiera Real Estate

Focus Consultants

Glenn Howells Architects

Hawkins Brown

Haworth Tompkins

Hilson Moran

Introba (formerly Elementa Consulting)

ISG ltd.

JLL

Kirsty Maguire Architect

Knight Frank Investment Management

Lamington Group

Landsec

LEAP

Lendlease

London Legacy

longevity Partners

Mace Group

Martin Ingham

Max Fordham LLP

Method Consulting

New River

Nigel Dutt

Nottingham Trent University

Pilbrow and Partners

Price Myers

Purcell

Qoda Consulting

Ramboll

Renaissance Associates Ltd

Ridge

RPS

Savills

SD Structures

Sir Robert McApline

Smith and Wallwork

Staffordshire University

Sustainable Construction Services

Swansea Council

Swansea University

Timber Development

Tooley Forster

Treveth Holdings LLP

Turley

Turner & Townsend

University of Liverpool

University of Reading

Walsh

Wates Group

Welsh School of Architecture

Whitby Wood

Wilkinson Eyre

Willmott Dixon Holdings Ltd

Woolgar Hunter

Workman

WSP

XCO2

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