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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.
James Howard
BSc (Hons), MRICS
Studio HIVE
James is Development Director at Studio HIVE, an innovative Bristol-based property developer. He previously worked as Associate Director of Urban Splash and at Gleeds, JLL, and Chesterton. A qualified Building Surveyor, James branched into Development and Project Management of mixed-use heritage and led projects including Lakeshore, Bristol and Royal William Yard, Plymouth. James has been involved with the redevelopment of Deepcut Barracks and Filton and regeneration projects in Bristol & Weston-super-Mare. James has served on the Torbay Design Review Panel for 10 years.
Lisa Jackson
MA Urban Design, BSc Town Planning, MRTPI
Jackson Planning Ltd
Lisa’s role is to navigate the evermore complex planning system to gain planning permission for clients. Her key driver is to raise her client’s design and sustainability ambitions and demonstrate that it leads to a smoother planning process; appropriate contextual design is key to that ambition. Her own lived experience of designing, procuring, building, and occupying a PassivHaus has taught her why we must all design better at the planning stage. Lisa represents the Royal Town Planning Institute on the judging panel of the annual National Housing Design Awards.
Nick James
BSc MArch
Futureground
Nick is a sustainability professional with 20+ years’ experience working in investment, development, design and construction organisations. He’s an expert in the development and regeneration of housing, mixed and merged-use schemes. Nick applies design thinking to the “software” of how buildings, places and supporting services are designed, delivered, governed, managed and curated. He has a passion for the repurposing existing buildings and is a qualified retrofit coordinator. He’s founding director of sustainable place strategists, Futureground.
Sarah John
BA (Hons) Dip Arch, MA (Arch Cons), RIBA
GJR Conservation Ltd
Sarah has reported on listed buildings within the Devon and Cornwall area, researched much of Exeter’s Regency fabric, undertaken research on the listed buildings of Topsham and carried out faculty work for the Church of St Mary Aylesbeare. She is a registered RIBA Conservation Architect and works closely with local listed building officers, English Heritage and Church Faculties. The Practice concentrates on smaller projects, extensions, barn conversions and conservation area work but has also been involved in projects up to £9 million. Sarah’s knowledge of modern architecture is invaluable when adding modern insertions into listed fabric or a new dwelling in a conservation area.
Simon Kale
BA (Hons) CMLI
Nicholas Pearson Associates
Simon is a Chartered Landscape Architect with over 25 years’ experience in urban and rural projects including those within green and brownfield sites. Work has included site analysis, impact assessment and the design of integrated mitigation proposals. Landscape master-planning and design experience has included new residential, commercial and infrastructure developments from conceptual design to detailed proposals including the successful integration of scheme proposals into sensitive landscape contexts.
Julia Kashdan-Brown
BSc Hons, BArch, ARB, RIBA
Kashdan-Brown Architects
Julia has expertise in a wide range of building types across several sectors, with experience in arts-related buildings, artist collaborations, education, master-planning and residential projects. She was a partner at FCBS from 1998-2009 and has been a director of Bath-based practice Kashdan-Brown Architects since 2011. Julia has also been a Teaching Fellow at the University of Bath since 2009. She currently tutors the final two years of BSc and the first year of MArch.
Annabel Keegan
BA (Hons) Arch, MA Urban Design, MCIHT
PJA
Annabel is a qualified transport planner and urban designer with a background in architecture. She has over 15 years of practical experience in multidisciplinary consultant teams, specialising in the delivery of design-led projects in both the public and private sectors. She has been involved in the promotion of many mixed-use urban design and masterplanning projects, and has developed knowledge and understanding of design, planning application and design review processes. Annabel has a keen interest in improving the quality of streets and public spaces and has been involved in a range of projects developing innovative street and public realm designs.
Mike Keys
BSc BArch RIBA
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Mike is a partner at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and has designed a range of residential, sports, leisure and master planning projects, with a particular focus on the higher education sector, including working for the University of Bristol. Mike led the 2008 Stirling Prize winning team on Accordia, a substantial residential scheme in Cambridge widely regarded as setting a new benchmark for housing design in the UK. He has also designed residential schemes in London, Bath, Manchester and Bristol.
