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Austen Bates
BEng (Hons), CEng, MCISBE, BREEAM AP
Ramboll
Austen is a consultant with 20 years’ experience in the field of sustainability. Throughout his career he has led a diverse range of projects covering global circular economy and decarbonisation challenges, through to working with design teams and clients to deliver cutting edge sustainable award-winning buildings. Austen has worked with many of the UK’s prominent developers and cultural institutions to support them in their transformation towards a more sustainable and resilient future.
Tom Brown
MSc, BSc (Hons), BREEAM AP, CIBSE LCC/LCEA, MEI, CEnv
Hoare Lea
Since joining Hoare Lea as a Graduate in 2013, Tom has gained over 9 year’s experience as a Sustainability Consultant. Tom has led on a range of project typologies of varying scales, with a focus on office and residential development in the South West region, particularly Bristol. Tom now leads a team of consultants across Hoare Lea offices in Bristol and Cardiff, striving to deliver best in class sustainable assets. Tom joined the Design West panel in 2022.
Peter Clegg
MA (Cantab) MEnvD RIBA RDI RWA (Hons)
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Peter Clegg established Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios with Richard Feilden in 1978. Regarded as a pioneer in environmental design, he has over 40 years' experience in low energy architecture and is active in research, design and education. Peter works primarily in the education and cultural sectors. He is Chair of the RIBA research awards and the SWDRP, holds a professorship at Bath University, chaired the RIBA Awards Panel 2013/14, and in 2010 was made an RDI.
Alan Corner
MICE C.Eng
Corner Water Consulting
Alan is a chartered civil engineer with over 35 years’ infrastructure, flood risk, hydrology and drainage experience in the UK, middle and far east. Working for a UK Water Authority plus international multi-disciplinary consultancies where he has been a technical lead in drainage and flood risk design, delivering solutions for hundreds of residential, commercial and industrial development sites in all flood zones. Also experienced in drainage and flood protection for highways, nuclear facilities, ports and airports. He was Global SuDS Knowledge Leader at Halcrow plus assisted in drafting the National SuDS Standards and The SuDS Manual 2015. Alan has been a design review panel member in the Midlands and the Southwest for over 5 years.
Rob Delius
BA Hons Dip Arch MA RIBA
Stride Treglown
Rob is an architect and is Head of Sustainability at Stride Treglown. He is passionate about climate-sensitive regenerative design, biodiversity and creating healthy and distinctive places. His key specialisms are masterplanning, mixed-use and residential design. He has been sustainability advisor to the RIBA Southwest awards, is an external Examiner at UWE and has been the winner of several RIBA design competitions.
Bill Gething
MA (Cantab), Dipl Arch, RIBA, ARB
University of the West of England, Bill Gething: Sustainability + Architecture
Professor Bill Gething combines his role as Professor of Architecture at the University of the West of England with private architectural and sustainability consultancy, building on his long experience at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. He is a Design Council CABE Built Environment Expert and was RIBA President’s Sustainability Advisor 2002-2009. He has particular expertise in adapting buildings to the changing climate, thermal retrofit, and ensuring buildings perform as well in practice as they should in theory.
Shruthi Guruswamy
BArch MSc MRTPI
Arcadis
Shruthi is an Urban Designer, Planner and Architect who is passionate about creating evidence-based resilient design solutions that achieve the right balance between people and environment. She has over ten years’ professional experience leading and delivering multi-disciplinary urban regeneration and development projects in the UK, Sweden, India, Middle East, and Panama at various stages of the masterplanning process. Shruthi is also a Visiting Lecturer for the Masters in Urban Design programme at Cardiff University. Her core areas of focus are digital planning, transit-oriented developments, co-design, healthy places and liveable neighbourhoods.
Matt Harrison
BA Hons DipArch MA RIBA
One50studio
Matt is passionate about the value and social necessity of architecture and place design. This is aligned with a commitment to progress neighbourhood scale transformation to achieve sustainable outcomes through integrated energy, transport, water, ecology and social infrastructure. Matt has been a Design West Design Review panel member for more than 10 years and is a teaching fellow at Bath University. He works as a consultant with White Design, where he was a Director and employee of 16 years leading on urban design, neighbourhood planning and architectural projects as well as research into Zero Carbon communities, Retrofit, Design for Future Climate and Post Occupancy Evaluation.
Robert Harrold
MEng (Hons) CEng MICE MBA
Statik Consult
Robert began his career as a structural engineer designing projects as diverse as Woolwich Arsenal, St Petersburg Airport and Maggie’s Leeds before his interest in sustainable homes took him to HAB Housing, where he was design manager for the Neave Brown shortlisted Lovedon Fields. Having recently completed The Carriage Works, Bristol, he is now an independent consultant specialising in the regeneration of complex sites and is passionate about simple, yet creative technical solutions that underpin the creation of fantastic places to live and sustainable communities.
