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Practitioner Panel

Meet our practitioner panel who advise us on Briefing Notes for practitioners and policymakers. We make research accessible not only for academics, but also for the end-users of research: policymakers, practitioners, clients and occupants.

 

Ilari Aho

Ilari Aho

Uponor Corporation, FI
Cary Chan

Cary Chan

HK Green Building Council, China
Gary Clark

Gary Clark

HOK Architects, UK
Mike Cook

Mike Cook

Buro Happold, UK
Kira Gould

Kira Gould

Kira Gould CONNECT, US
Mina Hasman

Mina Hasman

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), UK
Christina Hoxie

Christina Hoxie

Hoxie Collective, US
Pierre Jaboyedoff

Pierre Jaboyedoff

Effin'Art, CH
Wangari Muchiri

Wangari Muchiri

Hivos Foundation, KE
Kate Simonen

Kate Simonen

Carbon Leadership Forum & University of Washington, US
Chris Twinn

Chris Twinn

Twinn Sustainability Innovation, UK
Ekaterina Tzekova

Ekaterina Tzekova

The Atmospheric Fund, CA
Elanor Warwick

Elanor Warwick

Clarion Housing Group, UK

Latest Commentaries

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Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) is widely valued but weakly embedded in practice. Ant Marsh, Kate van Someren, Lara Clarke and Tom Randall (Arup Building Performance and Commissioning Services) explain the findings from a survey and focus groups with UK construction industry practitioners. They identified fragmented responsibility, split commercial incentives and a persistent fear of “bad news”. Making POE routine requires a shift from producing reports to a focus on improving outcomes by owning and acting on learning.

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Ian Cooper (Eclipse Research) explores the questions of responsibility raised in the recent Buildings & Cities special issue ‘Climate Change Risk and Decision-Making’. Focusing here on carbon emissions and mitigation, global responses will require grounding in what can work locally. New responsibilities arise for the wide range of built environment decision-makers: clients, professionals and their institutions, central and local governments, product suppliers, financiers, insurers, etc. A framework is needed to manage the complexity of responsibilities especially for variety of actors, the time frames and spatial scales.

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