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Jake Williams
MEng, CEng, MCIBSE, MIMechE
Buro Happold
Jake has extensive experience in the field of environmental design, carbon reduction, energy and building simulation. Using his in depth understanding of environmental design, Jake is able to drive the design response towards solutions that reduce energy demand, improve well-being and ensure a healthy and comfortable internal environment. He has played a key role in defining the low energy design and environmental strategies on a wide range of projects, including education, cultural, scientific and office buildings. Following through projects from concept to completion and into occupation has given him a solid grounding in the reasons for the performance gap between design and operation, important knowledge of how buildings are managed and operated in practice, as well as an understanding of how users interact with buildings in reality. He is particularly passionate about bringing this learning into his projects, and is focused on delivering designs that are robust, user-centric and avoid unnecessary complexity. Jake’s specialist expertise includes studying energy transfer through the façade, natural ventilation design, thermal comfort, indoor air quality, low energy HVAC systems and low carbon energy generation strategies. He has defined net zero strategies for a wider range of new and existing buildings.
Neil Williamson
BA(Hons), MA, Dip Mgt, FLI, PPLI, FCMI, AdCert EDCP
Neil Williamson Associates Ltd
Neil is a landscape architect and urban designer with more than 35 years’ experience. He is a Design Council Expert (Associate), a past President of the Landscape Institute and serves on a number of design review panels including that of the Design Commission for Wales. He has helped develop and promote design policy at local and national level and collaborated with Rob Cowan on Design and Access Statements Explained published in 2008.
Charles Wilson
MA DA[Manc] Dip Arch Riba MRTPI
Chair
Charles Wilson is an Architect & Town Planner who has practiced in both private & public sectors. He previously co-designed the listed bus station at BDP, was City Architect and Planning Director at Lancaster, past chair of the CABE / Historic England Urban Panel, and was the deputy chair of Places Matter, the North West Regional Design Review service. He is current chair of strategic project review for Design West.
Daniel Jang Wong
BSc Arch, B Arch, FHEA, RAIA
Sole practitioner
Daniel is an experienced architect and teacher. Trained in Australia, he has practised across continents: Sydney/ Darwin/ London/ Bath. His interests are broad-based, having completed works in housing, libraries and museums, schools, community/ civic architecture, commercial development, urban design and the public realm. His work is pre-occupied with people and the ecology of place. His involvement in architectural education, between 2006 and 2023 at the University of Bath, focussed on design integration, with ambitious and humane outcomes.
Alexander Wright
BSc(Hons), Dip Arch, MDesS, FHEA, ARB, RIBA
Chair
University of Bath
Professor Alex Wright is Head of Architecture at the University of Bath. He is a graduate of the University of Bath, Cambridge University, and Harvard University, where he studied as a Harkness Fellow. He worked in private practice for 15 years before accepting a full-time academic position in 2005. Alex is an expert adviser to the Ministerial Advisory Group for the Department for Communities (Northern Ireland) and is Chair of the Swindon Design Review Panel for Creating Excellence.
