Beyond Carbon is dedicated to a world beyond climate change, focusing on a better-than-zero carbon built environment. We are Passivhaus designers and architectural physicists with expertise in low energy buildings, advanced building envelopes, façade design and environmental optimisation and embodied carbon.

The National Retrofit Hub will enable the delivery of housing retrofit, at scale. It will engage with all retrofit stakeholders to gather and disseminate knowledge, amplifying industry efforts and enabling the application of best practice to support local retrofit delivery programmes across the UK. See www.nationalretrofithub.org.uk for more information.I am working on the Hub's establishment phase, involved in operations and marketing.

Doing the Possible: Reducing Cost & Carbon, Improving Comfort & HealthI worked on a freelance basis with a number of small architecture practices to broaden their client offering with sustainability services including: early-stage design reviews, retrofit planning, passive design strategies, specification of low-carbon materials, energy modelling, thermal comfort and climate resilience analysis.

Bioregional champions a better, more sustainable way to live.We work with partners to create places which enable people to live, work and do business within the natural limits of the planet. We call this One Planet Living.

Providing support for the development and delivery of Sustainable Development Foundation special projects, notably those arising from collaborations across SDF partner organisations, including Passivhaus Trust, Good Homes Alliance, The Alliance for Sustainable Building Products, Building Performance Network and Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance.

Teaching 'Building Simulation and Design in Context' on the Oxford Brookes MSc course 'Sustainable Architecture: Evaluation and Design' from the 21/22 academic year. The module is also offered as part of the MArchD programme for Part II architecture students, and feeds into the Design module for both cohorts in semester 2.

I am a visiting lecturer on the MSc Sustainable Architecture, Evaluation and Design course. Teaching mainly on embodied carbon, natural materials and net zero.I am also supervising two MSc students with their dissertation projects this year, they are focussing on: 1) suitability of natural materials for domestic retrofit, in relation to whole life carbon impact; 2) biomemetic architecture as a solution to reducing building energy consumption and improving occupant comfort.

Following completion of my Masters in the Brookes' School of Architecture, I worked as a postgraduate researcher in the Architectural Engineering Research Group (School of Architecture, Faculty of Technology, Design & Environment). I specialised in Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of novel construction materials. Interests included LCA, innovative insulation products, designing for end-of-life / deconstruction, material circularity and specifying for climate change adaptation.

FAB-HAB Project was a design and construction company with a bold ambition: to transform the way homes are built, to minimise environmental impact and maximise social impact.Our timber-frame, modular FAB-HAB system was:BeautifulLow-cost / quick and easy to buildZero-carbon / climate-positiveFor social housing, tiny homes, home offices and garden roomsStarted-up barely months before the Covid-19 pandemic, we managed to secure regional Local Enterprise Partnership funding to build a prototype building, which was developed in the autumn of 2020. Unfortunately, the overriding economic conditions (construction was closed down for much of 2020) and the need for capital investment in a prototype product, meant the business closed down after 17 months.The prototype building was successfully completed, but we were unable to secure funding and resources for the next stage of development - to move production to a simpler, off-site model requiring less time to finish the building on-site.Our Fab-Hab prototype building made the six-long shortlist in the final of the 2021 Alliance for Sustainable Building Products (ASBP) national awards.

This role had a dual focus:- Building physics, energy modelling and data analytics for residential developments (both new build and retrofit), and specification, modelling and optimisation of Atamate's building services automation solution - for energy reduction and occupant comfort.- As a small, entrepreneurial business, I also supported business development, customer segmentation and marketing strategy, including customer persona and marketing plan development.

Bright Green Studio was a sustainable architecture practice putting design, wellbeing, comfort and performance at the heart of our work.We designed beautiful, healthy, comfortable, energy efficient, low impact, future-ready homes, helping to make healthy, energy efficient homes with low running costs, low environmental impact, and a finished result that’s a pleasure to live in both now and in the future. Bright Green Studio also offered consulting services to architects and designers, working at the early design stage to provide effective, measurable solutions which optimise building performance and meet clients' sustainability goals. Consultancy services included energy modelling, life cycle assessment, design of passive strategies, payback analysis of renewable technologies, thermal comfort analysis, daylighting analysis and recommendations for materials, systems and services.We also specialised in climate change analysis to enable energy efficiency and thermal comfort in future climates.Our aim is to deliver beautiful homes that are optimised for energy efficiency, payback, comfort and reduced impact (or all of those together!) for both current and projected future climates.My partner Sat Kaur was our architect, and I was our sustainability consultant, building physicist and low carbon materials specialist.

Making use of my extensive commercial background in marketing and market research, I launched Forty2 Marketing in 2013 with the purpose of helping small business owners understand the value that marketing, when done effectively, could add to their businesses, helping them stand out against their competition, get heard in the right places, and grow sales.Forty2 Marketing worked across B2B and B2C clients, aiming to:• Understand business goals and how marketing can deliver against those goals• Define brand positioning and USPs• Carry out market research to understand customers and competitors, to ensure unique, effective and well communicated brand positioning• Effectively target marketing activity by developing customer personas, understanding their needs and how your business meets those needs• To put these things together to ensure the right message is delivered in the right way, through the right medium, to reach your target customer and convince them to buyKey clients for Forty2 Marketing included:Nielsen: provided expert data analysis and client management consultancy to their clients including Heinz, Danone, Treasury Wine Estates and Alpro.RSAcademics: provided freelance consultancy for their School Pulse team, delivering data analysis and insights.BeMore: worked for this small charity on a project basis, primarily to develop and deliver their marketing plan, communications strategy and marketing operations. Marketing focussed on both B2C and B2B communications, to bring members directly into the BeMORE programme and also to develop and provide CSR programmes to organisations.

Responsible for:• Management of a team of 5 to deliver continuous market research to one of Nielsen’s largest clients in the UK - Heinz• Providing thought leadership and insights best practice across the team, the wider Nielsen commercial group, and at the client• Ensuring servicing and deliverables provided to the highest standards as set by Heinz, whilst focusing on targeting and delivery of added-value services to drive Nielsen business forward• Creating a collaborative environment across agency partners to ensure Heinz gets integrated analysis and delivery of actionable, insightful results Achievements:• Developed new way of working to deliver greater added value for Heinz. Managed restructure of client service team and implementation of new way of working, including gaining alignment of senior Heinz stakeholders• Played a key role in an internal Heinz project team to identify and scope opportunity in a new category. Challenged their strategy and plans throughout process to ensure macro environment and non-Heinz view was considered at every stage• Created new process for cross-agency collaboration to ensure Heinz cross-functional teams received seamless, actionable insight from complementary data sources• Developed and delivered (Nielsen) company-wide training programme to increase client teams’ awareness of the client perspective, encouraging client teams to understand and create insight, and challenge their clients at every opportunity

Responsible for:• Developing strategic marketing plan for this medium sized IT consultancy• Researching and writing client case studies and implementation of new website design and copy in WordPress• Managing marketing communications and design agenciesAchievements:• Assisted Managing Director with the development of a long-term strategic marketing plan• Developed short term tactical marketing plan to relaunch website and B2B communications• Researched, wrote and published more than 20 client case studies across a wide range of specialist IT subject areas• Managed design agency in delivery of new website and implemented new copy across the site using WordPress

Responsible for:• Full P&L responsibility; targeted with delivering volume, revenue and profit for various brands across Gallo’s portfolio, initially for McWilliams and Vina Chilcaya, and in 2007 promoted to Marketing Manager in charge of flagship Gallo Family Vineyards (GFV) brand, worth £160m with marketing budget of £1.75m• Developing and delivering brand strategy and innovation plans integrated with cross-functional teams to deliver growth consistent with brand and business objectives, whilst ensuring ROI and greatest consumer awareness• Creation of commercialisation plans to support Sales, Trade Marketing and PR teams with all Gallo winery NPD in the UK marketAchievements:• Created and delivered cross-functional plan for launch of Vina Chilcaya brand• Developed and implemented test-market plan for UK launch of Barefoot Wines, including: project management of operational aspects of launch; managing cross-functional teams; negotiation of data provision from customers; commissioning in-store consumer research; development of local sponsorship opportunities; development of POS materials; execution of field marketing support plan• Following successful Barefoot test market, created 5 year UK-wide launch plan and gained European Marketing Leadership approval for the launch via Gallo’s stage gate process• Led team across Trade Marketing, PR and Sales to develop fully integrated brand plans for Gallo Family Vineyards (GFV) including recommendations on price increases• Developed consumer communications strategy for GFV and won approval for F-Word sponsorship from Gallo’s International Leadership Team, total budget £1.75m• Delivered TTL campaign for F-Word and project managed campaign from beginning to end including: creative and media plan development; contract negotiations with Channel 4 (C4); budget management; implementation of press and outdoor activity; website development with C4; commercialisation of campaign to sell-in to the trade

Brand ManagerResponsible for:• Brand management of Cadbury Cakes; developing brand plans and inputting into overall brand strategy, category performance monitoring, consumer promotions, packaging and product quality• All NPD for Cadbury Cakes brand (value £85m), including P&L responsibility and marketing spend of £1.1m• Project management of NPD launches via stage-gate process: market analysis and insight generation; concept development / ideation; conducting consumer research; writing packaging and media briefs; cross-functional coordination of actual product development; commercialisation of launch to Sales teamAchievements:• Conducted strategic review of key market segment, identified emerging consumer trends, recommended strategy and positioning and developed detailed plans to deliver stretching targets for brand re-launch• Delivered 8 NPD lines to market in short time scale with limited resources, worth £14m (annualised)• Developed commercial selling plan, including setting ROS and distribution targets across all market channels• Identified opportunity to grow brand into new market segment outside Manor Bakeries’ existing production capability, and gained board level approval for outsourcing of NPD in this segment

Responsible for:• Managing market research budget of £400k and prioritising spend across customer management teams• Developing and implementing category range and merchandising strategies across all business channels and customers• All aspects of ad-hoc customer research; development of research briefs, gaining board level approval for large projects, project management of agencies and internal and customer de-briefing• Supporting NAMs in customer negotiations regarding ranging and distributionAchievements:• Commissioned a major study – in partnership with Tesco and Co-op – to establish strategic principles for category range and merchandising, to communicate category and brands most effectively at the point of purchase• Conducted shopper behaviour study in Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Asda, briefed to complement Marketing U&A study• Led project team in strategic review of Manor’s branded product range, delivered recommendations to board and implemented (top 20) rationalised range with Sales team to improve business efficiency• Developed and implemented cross-functional KPI measures to focus performance on delivering brand strategy

Started my career as an FMCG retail industry analyst, working with major Grocery retailers to design and deliver cross-category insights and reporting.Responsible for:• Production of monthly reports, ad-hoc data analysis, data presentations and internal & external training• Project management of ad-hoc studies, including commissioning databases and developing reporting systemsAchievements:• Created and delivered an out-of-stocks monitoring study and reporting system for Sainsbury’s, including project management of Operations and Field teams. This was the first revenue generating project for IRI's Retailer Services team (traditionally servicing by the Retail team was used to off-set the business cost of the retailers' data)• Set-up and managed automated monthly reporting for several retail clients