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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.
Jackie Gillespie
BA Dip Arch RIBA
gillespie yunnie architects
Jackie is a partner of Dartington based Gillespie Yunnie Architects. She studied Architecture at Portsmouth University, Oxford Brookes and the Alexandria Architecture Centre in Washington DC, receiving the Field- ing Dodd prize for outstanding work and a distinction in Diploma. She worked at Niall Phillips Architects and Architecton prior to joining Acan- thus Ferguson Mann as an Associate in 1995, becoming a Director in 1998 when she set up the Devon Office of the practice. Gillespie Yunnie Architect was set up with co-director Phillip Yunnie in 2005 as a design- led practice specialising in contemporary solutions for constrained and historic environments. The practice has since won numerous awards for a diverse range of building types.
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.
Andrew Grant
RDI, CMLI, Hon. D.Litt, Hon FRIBA, FRSA
Grant Associates
Founder and Director of Grant Associates. He was awarded the title of RSA Royal Designer for Industry in recognition of his pioneering global work in landscape architecture. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield and a member of the National Infrastructure Commission Design Group. He is Chair of the Bathscape Landscape Partnership, a member of the Bath World Heritage Site Advisory Board and co-founder of the pop up festival Forest of Imagination.
Emma Grayson
BSc (Hons), MCIHT
AECOM
Emma has 19 years of experience in transport planning, focussed on development planning. Her experience spans both the private and public sector and she has particular expertise of advising on the transport planning impacts of strategic development proposals across the south of England. Emma has worked at all stages of the planning process, from initial site feasibility through to the preparation and review of Transport Assessments and the negotiation of planning conditions and obligations.
Rob Gregory
MArch BA (Hons) RIBA ARB
Chair
The Universities of Bristol and Bath
Rob Gregory is an award-winning architect and academic, currently responsible for design quality across the University of Bristol’s £1bn portfolio of capital projects. Over two decades Rob has maintained a permanent post as Teaching Fellow at the University of Bath, spent ten years as Senior Editor on the Architectural Review, four years on the RIBA National Awards Group, five years running the Architecture Centre’s public programme, and held consultancy roles for the Architecture Foundation, Royal Academy and British Council.
Anja Grossmann
Dipl Ing. LEED AP BD+C RIBA
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Anja is an architect and partner at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios. With her expertise in city-centre mixed use projects and urban masterplanning, she has led a wide range of award-winning projects in the UK and abroad, from global bank headquarters to pioneering environmental dwellings. She has been invited to lecture on low carbon housing and published a number of articles on sustainability. Anja is passionate about Bristol’s built environment, vibrancy, and rich mix of culture and heritage.
Richard Guise
Dip Arch (hons), PG Dip TP
Context 4D
Richard is a chartered architect and town planner with over forty years’ experience. He is principal of his Bristol-based urban design consultancy, Context4D, and specialises in design guidance and negotiation, sustainability, urban design frameworks and characterisation. Formerly course leader of the MA Urban Design programme at UWE, Richard is an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He co-authored ‘Shaping Neigbourhoods’ and ‘Characterising Neighbourhoods’.
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.
