AJ100 Sustainability Champion of the Year 2022 shortlist revealed

All are influential in promoting sustainable practices both within their own organisations and beyond.

Louisa Bowles is the Sustainability Lead at Hawkins\Brown, and has also helped generate proposed UK embodied carbon targets by linking together industry groups including London Energy Transformation Initiative, Royal Institute of British Architects, IStructE and the Whole Life Carbon Network.

Karl Brown of HLM Architects was instrumental in developing both the practice’s in-house environmental design tool HLM Healthcheck and its Carbon Reduction Plan, as well as leading the practice’s involvement in the Circular Twin initiative to promote net zero carbon projects.

As head of sustainability at Allies and Morrison, James Woodall created the practice’s sustainability strategy. This commits, among other things, to all projects being net zero carbon and becoming a carbon neutral practice by 2026, a well as the implementation of Post Occupancy Evaluation across a minimum of 50% of projects.

Sarah Lee, senior associate architect at Stride Treglown, is a founding member of Future Plymouth 2030, set up to explore collaborative ways of achieving regional/national carbon reduction targets and in doing so ensure a more sustainable future for the city.

Taleen Josefsson has championed sustainability with a focus on the Circular Economy in her role as project manager at Chetwoods’ Thrive sustainability team. She is also coordinator of the Architects Climate Action Network’s Circular Economy group.

The shortlist is completed by Jonathan Roynon, a technical director in the Bath office of Buro Happold. He was nominated by EPR Architects for his research into embodied carbon in structural design, which has informed the practice’s own sustainability design guide.

Last year, the winner was Rachel Hoolahan, sustainability co-ordinator at Orms for her pioneering work and cross-industry leadership on ‘material passports’ in existing buildings.

The shortlists for all ten AJ100 awards will be revealed this week and the winners will be announced on 22 June at the AJ100 gala dinner – click here for more information.

AJ100 Sustainability Champion of the Year 2022 shortlist

• Louisa Bowles, partner and sustainability lead, Hawkins\Brown
• Karl Brown, head of sustainability, HLM Architects
• Taleen Josefsson, Thrive project manager, Chetwoods
• Sarah Lee, senior associate architect, Stride Treglown, and founding member of Future Plymouth 2030
• Jonathan Roynon, technical director, Buro Happold, nominated by EPR Architects
• James Woodall, head of sustainability, Allies and Morrison

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