Panel

  • Alan Corner

    Alan Corner

    MICE, B.Eng, C.Eng

    Corner Water Consulting

    Alan is a chartered civil engineer with over 40 years’ infrastructure, flood risk, hydrology plus foul & surface water 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. More recently undertaking lots of Nutrient Neutral designs – particularly around mitigating or absorbing phosphates from new housing. Alan has been a design review panel member in the Midlands and the Southwest for over 8 years.

    Climate, Landscape, Water

  • Frances Crow

    Frances Crow

    BA(Hons), DipArch(UCL), RIBA, ARB

    Crow Architecture

    Frances Crow is a chartered architect and Director of Crow Architecture. The practice specialises in retrofit, conservation and regenerative development in a rural context. Her experience in practice, teaching, research and engaged-arts projects, combines to define her approach to development. She champions projects that consider demolition as a last resort, use a ‘fabric first’ approach, privilege bio-based materials and use principles of the circular economy to reduce the embodied and in use carbon.

    Climate, Heritage, Housing, People & Place

  • Rob Delius

    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.

    Climate, Density, Health, Housing, People & Place

  • Graham Devine

    Graham Devine

    BA (Hons), Di, RIBA, ARB

    LHC Design

    Graham, chartered architect and LHC Design Director, takes a deeply holistic approach to design, with a focus on social and environmental impact. He brings particular expertise on sustainability and strategic master planning. Leading high-profile projects in the public and private sectors, he has been responsible for the design and delivery of numerous homes as well as large-scale commercial and cultural schemes. His commitment to lifelong learning thrives at the University of Plymouth, where he mentors future architects.

    Climate, Density, Housing, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Bill Gething

    Bill Gething

    MA (Cantab), Dipl Arch

    University of the West of England, Bill Gething: Sustainability + Architecture

    Bill Gething is a retired architect and sustainability consultant and is Professor Emeritus at the University of the West of England, where he retains an involvement in teaching and research. He has particular expertise in low energy design; housing; adapting buildings to the changing climate, particularly in relation to overheating; thermal retrofit of the existing stock, and ensuring buildings perform as well in practice as they should in theory.

    Climate, Housing, People & Place

  • Jack Gorman

    Jack Gorman

    BEng (Hons), NABERS UK Assessor, CIBSE

    Hydrock Consultants Ltd

    Jack is an Associate at Hydrock Consultants, leading a team of consultants in Bristol specialising in decarbonisation and the energy transition. He also works part-time as an Associate Lecturer at UWE for the Architecture & Environmental Engineering course, reinforcing his holistic approach to design across all RIBA stages and scales. Jack strives to make the biggest impact in instigating large-scale decarbonisation of existing estates, and demonstrating the benefits of net zero design for masterplanning projects.

    Climate

  • Shruthi Guruswamy

    Shruthi Guruswamy

    BArch MSc MRTPI

    Arcadis

    Shruthi is an Urban Designer, Planner and Architect who is passionate about creating evidence-based design solutions that achieve the right balance between people and environment. She has led and delivered multi-disciplinary urban regeneration and development masterplans in the UK, Sweden, India and Middle East. She has published and delivered talks on sustainable development. Her core areas of focus are sustainable urbanism, climate resilience, TODs, co-design, design codes, healthy places, 20-minute communities and digital planning.

    Climate, Density, Health, Inclusive Design, People & Place, Strategic Development

  • Matt Harrison

    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.

    Climate, Housing, Strategic Development

  • Robert Harrold

    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.

    Climate, Housing, People & Place