Enablers

Our specialist enablers offer expert advice and support to organisations involved in projects for buildings and spaces.

Emma Adams

An architect in private practice in Cambridge and a consultant to van Heyningen & Haward Architects, Emma previously worked for Michael Hopkins & Partners. She has worked on transport and infrastructure projects, tertiary and special education buildings, religious and cultural buildings, public buildings and offices.

Stephanie Al-Wahid

Stephanie is an architect at the Beale Partnership, who specialises in housing and regeneration work. She has worked for Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust and Dearle & Henderson, and has experience of large masterplanning projects, including the Ferrier Estate, Kidbrooke, Cliffburn Estate, Arbroath and the Dollis Valley Estate, Barnet.

Pushpa Arabindoo

Pushpa is a lecturer at UCL Urban Laboratory and an urban design director at Inter Space Architects. She specialises in urban regeneration projects in the UK and has produced masterplans ranging from visionary frameworks to detailed development briefs and design guidelines, from city centres to regional spatial strategies.

James Arnold

Cany Ash

A partner in Ash Sakula architects, specialising in arts projects, urban regeneration and housing, Cany is interested in personalised learning spaces and architecture for children. The practice is on the HCA architects panel and she is a Civic Trust awards assessor and a member of the Building futures advisory group.

Richard Bannister

As Operations director at Mace Limited, focusing on regeneration projects and initiatives, Richard has worked with urban regeneration companies, housing market renewal areas, regional development agencies, English Partnerships, councils and developers, providing development management and project management skills.

Robert Barton

A chartered builder with extensive experience as a director with several of the UK's 'top-1' residential developers, Robert specialises in major project delivery. He is also a non-executive director of a real estate investment company and independent board member with a large housing association in the South of England.

Stephen Bates

Partner and co-founder of Segison Bates Architects, an international practice designing contemporary projects in the public realm in the UK and other countries, Stephen has expertise in urban planning, housing and public buildings. He has taught at schools of architecture in the UK, Switzerland and Germany.

Andrew Beard

Andrew is an architect, town planner and housing design and regeneration consultant. He was city architect for Sheffield and is a member of the CABE schools design review panel, design champion for Sheffield local education partnership, accredited Building for Life assessor and member of Transform South Yorkshire and South West enabling panels.

Peter Beard

Joe Berridge

An urban planner and partner of Urban Strategies Inc., Joe has led large scale, complex regeneration and masterplanning projects for waterfronts and downtowns in Toronto, New York, Barbados, London, Manchester, Cork, St. Louis and Detroit.

Juliet Bidgood

An architect and partner in design and communications studio NEAT, Juliet specialises in design policy and management, environmental and information design, and brief development for masterplans, public buildings and spaces. She has developed innovative urban design strategies, working with artists and the public. She is a member of the South West design review panel.

David Billingsley

Chief Architect of Ceredigion County Council, Wales, David’s portfolio includes education buildings, libraries, art galleries, leisure buildings, offices, public and private housing and other specialised urban and rural building types. He has been an RIBA awards and competitions assessor on several occasions.

Clive Birch

A director of Buro Four Project Services and a project manager with over 2 years’ experience, Clive has enabled the PFI schools programme for West Sussex Council. He is involved in the Department for Children, Schools and Families’ Academies programme, delivering 1 academies across England.

Angela Brady

Director of Brady Mallalieu, Angela’s projects include housing, medical surgeries, conservation, listed buildings and contemporary projects. She has led community group liaison, design workshops and promoted sustainable contemporary design. Angela is a STEM ambassador, vice chair of the Civic Trust Awards, a Building Exploratory trustee and member of RIAI council and the CABE/EH Urban panel.

Andy Bramwell

Andy is senior project manager with Mace, working in the Higher Education Sector where he has managed projects for London Metropolitan University, University College London, Oxford Brookes University and University of Oxford where he was project manager for the extension to the Ashmolean Museum. Andy is former Head of Projects at the Barbican Centre, Building Project Co-ordinator for Tate Modern, client representative for a major housing association and was in general practice as an architect.

Julie Bullen

A town planner and regeneration practioner, Jullie is director of her own practice, J Kennedy Consultancy. She has expertise in planning and housing policy; development of funding bids to support regeneration; delivering community-led neighbourhood regeneration; community/user group engagement and consultation; and regeneration procurement.

Mark Burgess

Mark is an architect, planner and urban designer, currently design team leader at Leeds City Council. He has worked on major regeneration frameworks, urban design strategies, guidance and design review in planning to place-making projects for new spaces. He lectures at Leeds Metropolitan University.

Andrew Burns

An urban designer and architect with an interest in urban design training, Andrew is a director at Matrix Partnership Ltd and a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. He has devised strategies for area frameworks and masterplans, such as Harlow growth strategy. Previously, Andrew was an architect in New Zealand and Japan, working on residential, commercial and leisure projects.

Anne Byrne

A project director at the London Borough of Barnet, Anne has commissioned projects ranging from small one-off buildings to large-scale urban regeneration schemes. Previously director of development at Stonebridge Housing Action Trust, she is an experienced client with good knowledge of procurement, funding and managing projects within constraints.

Kelvin Campbell

An architect and urban designer with 2 years’ experience of masterplanning and regeneration projects, Kelvin is founding director of Urban Initiatives with responsibility for urban design and development planning matters. Kelvin also lectures and examines in urban design, and is the author of several publications on the subject.

Simon Carne

Simon is an architect and urban designer, most recently director of Urban Initiatives. He has particular interest in the integration of the modern and historic in developments at all scales, from master planning to public realm interventions. He is an RIBA client design advisor and member of the Design Commission for Wales design panel.

Ben Castell

Practice director within Tribal’s Urban Studio team, Ben specialises in policy research, urban regeneration, sub-regional planning, design guidance and masterplanning. He has authored or co-authored the Manual for Streets, Safer Places: the Planning System and Crime Prevention, and CABE’s Better Places to Work. Masterplans managed include King’s Lynn town centre and marina, Cambridge northern fringe, Chatham waterfront and Lakeside/West Thurrock, Essex.

Paul Cayford

Paul is director of Cayford Architecture, which delivers small built projects and consults larger clients for design brief management. Paul was part of the client team instigating the BBC Property Strategy, and was responsible for briefing and managing the design quality of the £25 million White City Media Village project throughout the five-year process.

Sarah Chaplin

Sarah is an architect and urbanist, and is principal of evolver, a strategic design consultancy in SW London. She was formerly deputy director of the Urban Renaissance Institute, and prior to that head of school of architecture and landscape at Kingston University and a director of the Academy of Urbanism. She has published, lectured and consulted widely on urbanism, place-making, cultural history, and visual culture.

Jim Chapman

An experienced and award-winning architect and urban designer, Jim has enabled projects in master planning, health, the arts and education and is vice-chair of the design review panel for schools. He is an assessor for RIBA competitions, an emeritus professor of architecture at Manchester School of Architecture, and a fellow of the Institute of Healthcare Engineering and Estate Management.

Heather Cheesbrough

A landscape architect and town planner, Heather is a senior director at EDAW. She has particular expertise in masterplanning, regeneration and spatial planning, including housing extensions and estates, mixed use schemes and retail, with an emphasis on sustainable development and the inclusion of green technologies.

David Chetwyn

Ian Clarke

As director of Jane Darbyshire and David Kendall Ltd, a Newcastle based architecture and landscape architecture practice, Ian’s expertise includes brief development for clients, design and procurement of hospices and other care facilities including for dementia care, and patient environment design consultancy. Ian is a member of the NHS design review panel and design advisor to the Irish Hospice Foundation.

Simon Conder

Simon formed his own architecture and design practice in 1984, with offices in Suffolk and London. The practice has completed work including new build and conversion projects in the cultural, workplace, residential and leisure sectors, which has been widely published and exhibited in the UK and abroad.

Barry Cook

Operational director of the education sector at Buro Four, Barry has been involved in the briefing, design, planning and procurement of complex education, arts and mixed use projects. Recent work has been under the Building Schools for the Future, Primary Capital and DCSF Academies programmes.

Martin Cook

Martin is head of design at the Building Research Establishment (BRE) and a sustainability expert, regularly giving design advice for educational, housing and heritage buildings. He developed the Design Quality Method (DQM) used to conduct design reviews and post occupancy evaluations. Martin is a founder member of the RIBA Sustainable Futures Committee and the Urban Land Institute’s European Sustainable Development Council.

Michael Coombs

Senior partner at Alan Baxter & Associates, Michael’s main areas of expertise are in architectural engineering design, structural engineering, building infrastructure, site enabling, and masterplanning. Projects include St Martin-in-the-Fields; the Herbert Gallery, Coventry; Snow Hill, Birmingham; Crystal Palace Park, Bromley; Mansion House, London; the Great Eastern Hotel, London; Waltham Forest Housing Action Trust regeneration; and the London School of Economics new academic building.

John Cooper

Founding director of Avanti Architects and director of Anshen Dyer Architects since 21 John’s projects include the ACAD ambulatory care and diagnostic project and St James University Hospital, Leeds. John aims to develop innovative architectural responses to the radical changes taking place in the provision of healthcare.

James Copp

With extensive experience in regeneration work, James is an engagement consultant specialising in community-based and education-based design and development programmes. Often working in partnership with university design departments, he is creative co-ordinator at the Doncaster Design Centre with a core remit to encourage and engender in young people an appreciation of the built environment.

Kevin Cowin

John Dales

John is director of Urban Initiatives, responsible for the movement and access aspects of inter-disciplinary design, masterplanning and regeneration studies. A transport planner with 2 years’ experience of working in the public and private sectors, he is committed to public consultation and has designed, managed and delivered numerous public consultation exercises.

Jane Dann

Director at Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design Jane is an urban designer, planner and architect with 16 years’ experience in masterplans and development frameworks, as well as development feasibility studies, education-led projects, complex sites and working with multi-headed client teams.

Alison Davies

Alison is an architect and partner at Groundworks Architects, based in Nottingham. The practice specialises in environmental design, community consultation and involvement, disability access and social inclusion. Alison is also a design enabler for MADE in the West Midlands, and an occasional tutor at the School of Built Environment, University of Nottingham.

Ian Deans

Director of architecture plb, with offices in London and Winchester, Ian is an architect and urban designer involved in education, housing and civic architecture, with particular expertise in schools. His urban design experience includes several residential masterplans and campus restructuring projects. He is a member of the SEEDA design panel and the Urban Design Group.

Neil Deely

Neil is an architect and founding partner of Metropolitan Workshop Architects. The practice’s portfolio includes major architectural and urban design projects in the UK and mainland Europe. Before forming the practice, Neil was a director of MacCormac Jamieson Prichard Architects, where he worked for around ten years leading the design of a number of important public, academic and residential building projects, including the redevelopment of Broadcasting House for the BBC. Neil has in recent years been responsible for the design of Adamstown District Centre, Winner of the 2008 RTPI Sustainable Communities Award. Neil was appointed to the CABE enabling panel in 2004 and has studied and taught in the UK and USA.

James DeHavilland

A masterplanner and urban designer, James specialises in strategic urban extensions, sustainable masterplans, the regeneration of heavy industry areas and Design and Access Statements. He leads the design studio at Barton Willmore in Bristol, and has extensive experience providing listed building advice. James sits on the South West design review panel and is a visiting critic for the urban design masters course at Cardiff University.

Ben Denton

A founding partner of ABROS, Ben leads the housing PFI and regeneration PFI financial advisory team. Skilled in developing structured finance solutions to major mixed-use projects he previously worked in development surveying on public/private regeneration projects, and led a major projects team at KPMG.

Clare Devine

Clare is a director at Ruddle Wilkinson Architects, a large multi-disciplinary practice providing architectural, urban planning, interior design and project management services. She has advised on and led major regeneration projects, with particular experience in consulting planners, local communities, schools and local education authorities, to encourage their participation in the design process.

Mark Dudek

An architect and writer specialising in education environments, Mark runs his own practice. He is working on a range of children’s centres and primary school refurbishment projects. He recently published Schools and Kindergartens – A Design Manual (Birkhauser, 27) and is a research fellow at the School of Architecture, University of Sheffield.

Fiona Duggan

Fiona specialises in user and environment briefing for educational environments, helping clients define, design, implement and/or evaluate innovative learning landscapes that support educational and organisational change. She sits on the RIBA's higher education design quality forum.

Joanna Eley

Joanna is an architect and client advisor specialising in briefing to create better buildings to meet client needs. She also works on post-occupancy evaluation and workplace planning, higher education and museums. She has written extensively, and has prepared client guidance and delivered training for CABE.

Jonathan Ellis-Miller

Founder and chairman of ellismiller architects, Jonathan concentrates on sustainable civic, education, community, and commercial projects. A CABE enabler since 21, he has experience of schools PFI, courts PFI and the Building Schools for the Future programme.

Alex Ely

Architect and partner at Mæ Architects, Alex wrote The Home buyer's guide (Black Dog, 24) and the Housing audit: assessing the design quality of new homes (CABE, 25). A former CABE senior policy advisor, Alex specialises in urban design, housing, arts and public landscape projects.

Heather Emery

Currently working on a freelance basis as an ambassador for heritage skills in the northwest, Heather has worked in local and regional government in a planning, conservation, regeneration and urban design capacity. She has assisted in major new regeneration projects and acted as an advisor on public realm schemes.

Roger Evans

Architect, town planner, urban designer and principal of Roger Evans Associates Ltd (REAL), Roger specialises in urban design, masterplanning and regeneration. He has led or contributed to urban design studies for over 8 towns or cities, mostly for local government. He was the lead author of Urban Design Compendium 2 (Homes and Communities Agency, 27).

Colin Farmer

Formerly NHS northern regional architect and director of estates for Sheffield City Council, Colin was founding head of the Sheffield Development Agency, subsequently Sheffield 1, where he proposed and led Sheffield’s Heart of the City Project, including the Peace Gardens and the Wintergarden. He is now a capital and procurement specialist for the Audit Commission, with NHS and local government clients and has been a visiting lecturer in urban regeneration at Sheffield Hallam University.

Kathryn Firth

Senior Associate Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox (International), Kathryn has experience of masterplanning and urban regeneration projects in the USA, Europe, the Middle East and the UK, from public realm improvements to brownfield site developments. She is conducting research on successful public spaces. She is visiting lecturer in the housing and urbanism programme at the Architectural Association.

Annette Fisher

Principal of Fisher Associates, Annette concentrates on commercial leisure, offices, restaurant and residential projects. She is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Architects and has worked in the UK, USA and Africa.

Andrew Ford

Founding partner of Fulcrum Consulting, Andrew has wide experience of environmental consultancy and low energy building design. Formerly research manager for DTI construction process projects, he was pivotal in the development of Envirolab and is an active member of the 'Edge' debate.

Bernie Foulkes

Bernie is director of LDA Design and co-producer of the South West Strategy for Architecture and the Built Environment. His expertise is in masterplanning and urban design, design guidance and design briefing, landscape architecture, public realm design and implementation, environmental planning and development capacity studies.

Simon Foxell

Simon is principal of the Architects Practice and lead design advisor to Birmingham’s Building Schools for the Future, primary and academy programmes. His publications include The RIBA Best Practice Guide to Starting a Practice (26), Mapping London (27), Mapping England (28) and (with William J Mitchell) Education and Creativity (28).

Georgina Frank

Actively involved in the design of schools, concentrating on functionality, affordability and longevity, Georgina is an architect and bid manager at the Mill Group Ltd.

Christopher French

Principal of Chris French Architecture and Research, Chris has a research degree in school design. He worked as architect and professional client for Essex County Council for 3 years, responsible for the £4 million annual capital programme. He has advised on design and procurement of large PFI and partnering education schemes.

Tina Frost

Tina is an architect and associate director at Navigant Consulting. She is an RIBA Client Design Advisor, notably supporting significant public procurement projects within the education sector. She is an RIBA Part III examiner, a member of the RIBA validation panel and a member of the Newham design review panel.

Daisy Froud

Adrian Gale

Adrian is a consultant architect and a member of the Arts Council Capital Architecture Advisory Committee. He is concentrating on building procurement, acting as an independent advisor to clients. He is a Trustee of the Hackney Building Exploratory and the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World in Exeter.

Musa Garba

Senior architect with Devereux Architects, Musa has worked on healthcare, residential, education and community buildings. He advised Royal Holloway College on two research papers on diversity in the construction industry, and is a founder member of the RIBA Architects for Change, a forum focusing on equality and diversity issues.

Alastair Gaskin

Managing director of Reagh Consulting Ltd, Alastair is a development management specialist, managing mixed use and urban regeneration projects from inception to site. He has wide experience of the development and regeneration process, as well as financial, legal, political and design issues affecting urban regeneration projects in public and private sectors.

Chris Gaylord

Christopher is managing director of Nilsson Architects and a former board director of Assael Architecture, associate director at Tibbalds Munro and associate at David Chipperfield. He has designed and directed many city centre regeneration schemes, including the conversion of the former South Bank University buildings, London.

Bill Gething

Bill is a long standing partner of Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, the RIBA President’s sustainability advisor and a member of the Architects’ Council of Europe work group Environment and Sustainable Architecture. He is visiting professor at the University of Bath, chair of BRE Global’s sustainability board and a member of the Carbon Trust’s Accreditation Board.

Alastair Gourlay

Alastair is capital development manager at Guy's & St Thomas' Hospital NHS Trust. His expertise is in procurement, commissioning and design of buildings within the NHS (healthcare and research) and briefing, facilitation and negotiation.

Susan Green

Susan is a town planner, managing director of Deeley Homes Limited, based in the Midlands, and previously a founder member of Lowry Homes PLC, based in the North West. She has twenty years experience of housing and regeneration projects, public / private sector partnerships and most recently sustainable development.

Nigel Greenhill

Nigel is director of Greenhill Jenner Architects, with over 2 years’ experience in the design and delivery of buildings in the public and voluntary sector, including housing, education, health and community and arts projects.

Anne Griffiths

An experienced client who has successfully delivered construction projects including court buildings, tribunal centres and the City Hall for the GLA, Anne advises clients on a freelance basis on high-quality designs that will succeed operationally and be cost-effective. Anne is a facilitator, accredited by the CIC, for Design Quality Indicators.

Mathis Guller

Richard Haig

An architect with experience in housing regeneration, residential and education projects, Richard has experience of the public, private and voluntary sectors. He has a particular interest in sustainability, ecological design and the link between buildings and their context. Now in private practice, he has also worked as a designer for a special needs housing provider.

Davida Hamilton

Kaeren Harrison

Sarah Harrison

Sarah is associate director with PRP Project Management Services and was previously deputy director for neighbourhoods at Notting Hill Housing. She has experience of affordable housing led projects, option appraisals and masterplans, estate regeneration, environmental improvements, community buildings and public art. She is particularly skilled in involving residents and stakeholders.

Roger Hawkins

Roger is director of Hawkins Brown architects, specialising in buildings for arts, higher education, transport, commercial and mixed-use developments and reuse adaption of existing buildings. He is convenor of the RIBA Higher Education Design Quality Forum.

Bob Hayes

As founder and director of Architype, a practice specialising in environmentally and socially sustainable design, Bob has experience in social housing, community and educational projects involving end user participation.

Matt Hayes

An architect and partner of Lee Evans Partnership, Matt’s experience is in community and educational projects including pre-school, primary, SEN and secondary schools. He has a keen interest in the socio economics of sustainable design, local supply chains and natural resources. He is currently working on wave 3 and 4 Building Schools for the Future schools.

Colin Haylock

Colin is urban design director at Ryder Architecture, working extensively on BSF and major PFI healthcare projects. He has extensive public and private sector experience as an architect, planner and manager of multidisciplinary environmental design services. He is a member of CABE’s planning advisory committee and the RTPI’s Executive Board, Chair of the Urban Design Alliance and an architectural assessor of the Civic Trust and RICS awards.

Colin Hayward

Colin is a partner with KCMS London. His experience is in cost consultation to education and community regeneration projects and arts projects including major galleries and theatres, public exhibitions, dance and music venues, and nursery accommodation.

Wayne Head

Wayne is a director at BDP, responsible for education projects. He previously worked with Penoyre & Prasad on projects including Charter School, Dulwich and Moorfields Eye Hospital. He recently led the reinvention of City College Norwich’s architecture and has submitted proposals for a zero carbon primary school. He was awarded the London Open House Design Mentor Award 26, and lectures widely.

Andrea Heinlen

An architect and urban designer, Andrea was formerly head of multi-disciplinary design services at Nottingham City, including policy development, master planning, design and delivery of major projects. She has a strong focus on sustainable procurement, partnering, working with artists and using processes involved for wider social and economic benefits. She is currently president of SCALA.

George Henderson

Principal of Henderson Associates, an architecture, planning and research consultancy, George is an expert in post-occupancy evaluation and community asset management of schools and healthcare buildings. George is emeritus professor of architecture at De Montfort University, academic advisor to the Centre for Built Environment Education, Cardiff University and member of the Higher Education Design Quality Forum.

Simon Henley

Simon is director of Buschow Henley and experienced in education, health, housing, office, prison design and adaptive reuse. Current work includes LIFT primary care, the performing arts, affordable housing and housing estate regeneration projects. He combines practice with lecturing at UCL on housing futures and is a member of the NHS Design Review Panel.

Mark Hewitt

Architect and founding partner of d-squared, a multi-strand design practice, and icax™ Limited, a company which produces large-scale building and infrastructure applications using inter-seasonal heat storage technology, Mark has developed solutions for sustainable energy-efficient buildings and cities, and researched large-scale energy effects in building fabric and cities.

Robin Hickman

Associate director and transport planner at Halcrow and Research Fellow at the Transport Studies Unit, University of Oxford, Robin is a specialist in transport and climate change, urban structure and travel, integrated transport and urban planning strategies and the project management of major multi-disciplinary studies.

Paul Hildreth

Paul advises on cities, regional and local economies, with emphasis on ‘place-shaping’, urban regeneration, community leadership and governance, regional policy, medium-sized cities and city-regions. He is visiting policy fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures (SURF) at Salford University and an expert for the Council of Europe, working on local and regional development in central and eastern Europe.

Stephen Hill

Director of C2O futureplanners and co-founder of the Futureplanners innovation and action learning network, Stephen focuses on strategic decisions about project design and planning, integrating spatial planning, strategic masterplanning, ideas about procurement and financing, and the long term stewardship of places. He has experience of mixed-use inner city and suburban regeneration as well as new growth area projects.

Andrew Houlton

Andrew is principal of Houlton Architects, and has experience with education, special needs and primary care facilities, working with client bodies on brief development and assisting with advice for procurement. Project work explores direct relationships between generosity of design intent and long-term benefits of whole life strategies.

Anthony Hudson

As director of Hudson Architects, Anthony is experienced in a range of cultural projects, urban and rural regeneration and housing in private and public sectors.

Kay Hughes

Kay is project sponsor and principle design adviser for Olympic park projects at the Olympic Delivery Authority. Previously she worked as a senior client representative at the FCO and at Sport England, most notably working on the 22 Commonwealth Games. Originally an architect in private practice, she then trained in project management and as client in the public sector.

Simon Innes

Simon is architect director and sector leader in education at HKR Architects. His interests include designing for learning environments and the nature of the school in the city. He has implemented many built projects and has expertise in improving design by excellent briefing of the design team and review of the design work. He is an RIBA Client Design Adviser.

Mary Jackson

Mary is a landscape architect and teacher, working for Learning through Landscapes. She specialises in working with schools and early years settings, looking at a whole site approach and meaningful consultation with the whole school community.

John Jenkins

John is founding partner of Haverstock Associates. His areas of expertise include education, transportation, police buildings and crematoria. He is chair of the Home Office Design Review Panel, an RIBA design advisor and researched Building Bulletin 77: Designing for Special Educational Needs, for the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

John Jenner

John is director of Greenhill Jenner Architects, whose areas of expertise are architectural, interior and urban design and masterplanning, especially for health, housing and education buildings, with a focus on community and user group consultation and participation. The practice’s work includes Sure Start and Children's Centres and buildings for the arts.

Graeme Jennings

As director of cultural development consultancy Business of Culture Ltd, Graeme has experience in project planning on cultural centres throughout the world. Graeme is an architect and regeneration consultant specialising in the planning, development, regeneration strategy and management of sustainable cultural communities.

Tom Jestico

Tom is founding director of Jestico and Whiles, and now a consultant at the practice. His expertise is in urban design and regeneration projects, notably in offices, industrial and retail projects, transport and mixed use, the restoration of heritage buildings and offices/retail buildings in the City of London.

Claire Johnson

Claire is an architect with experience in mixed-use schemes and public buildings. She has worked in the public sector designing urban green space, and produced a post-occupancy evaluation of new Children’s Centres for CABE. She has a strong interest in sustainable communities and is a Breeam Schools Assessor.

Lesley Johnson

Lesley is a director of Johnson Pancucci, where she specialises in neighbourhood renewal, housing development, consultation and stakeholder engagement. She is skilled in building effective partnerships and advising on the set up and delivery of large scale and complex housing and regeneration schemes.

Gareth Jones

Gareth was with Building Design Partnership for 16 years, latterly as a director of architecture and urban design, working on schools, university masterplans, stadia and faculty buildings. He is now with Workhousedesign, Truro and is chair of RIBA Cornwall and Cornwall Architectural Trust, and a member of the Carrick Design Review Panel.

Gareth Jones

Gwilym Jones

Gwilym is director of Longboard Consulting and formerly associate director with Arup. As a development planner and independent consultant with public sector experience, his expertise includes strategic planning advice on feasibility and masterplanning projects and application strategy/management for major development schemes.

Martina Juvara

Andrew Karski

Principal of Tibbalds Planning and Urban Design, Andy has experience in masterplanning, design guidance, tourism development strategies, town centre regeneration strategies, environmental improvement, traffic calming and pedestrian studies, development of feasibility studies and planning negotiation and appeals.

Julia Kashdan-Brown

Julia is a partner at Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects. Her expertise is in arts buildings, involving close liaison with artists and local communities. She has also worked on housing schemes, urban design and planning projects, and has a particular interest in low-energy and sustainability issues.

Mike Kelly

Mike is former deputy head of the project sponsor section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, where he worked with award winning architects to create buildings of distinction. He is now a design and project consultant and a member of several design review panels, a DQI facilitator, a gateway reviewer and a registered client design adviser.

Stefan Kruczkowski

Stefan is principal urban designer at North West Leicestershire District Council. He aims to work collaboratively at pre-application stages, to develop concepts and solutions for development sites. His main expertise is in residential development, improving H6 housing quality performance and supporting the expansion of the Building for Life programme.

Esther Kurland

Matt Lally

Director of Matrix Partnership and town planner / urban designer by background, Matt’s Professional focus is on masterplanning and regeneration. He has worked on projects throughout the UK and internationally, particularly in Asia and Africa. He is active in urban design education and has been responsible for several best practice publications, including the Urban Design Compendium.

Derek Latham

An architect, landscape architect, town planner and urban designer, Derek is chair of Latham Architects and director of Opun architecture centre. He has experience in design and conservation and lectures on the creative reuse of land and buildings. He is an RIBA client design adviser and chair of REM (regional centre of excellence).

Richard Lavington

Richard is partner in MacCreanor Lavington Architects, specialising in regeneration, housing and urban design. He is visiting critic to various universities and schools of architecture.

Justine Leach

A consultant urban designer and landscape architect, formerly associate director at EDAW, Justine’s expertise is in urban design strategies and guidelines, regeneration and mixed use masterplanning, and public realm design. She is experienced in housing market renewal/pathfinder areas, brief development, shortlisting and selecting consultant teams, procurement routes for competitions and development projects.

Carol Lelliott

Carol is a partner at Nicholas Hare Architects. Her main expertise lies in education design, including nursery, primary and secondary schools, and further and higher education. She has a strong interest in sustainable design and inclusive brief development.

David Levitt

Founding partner and director of Levitt Bernstein Associates, David is experienced in arts buildings and private housing, urban design and regeneration and works to listed buildings. He is a member of the National Housing Awards assessment panel and board member of Catalyst Housing Group.

Sally Lewis

Sally is an urban designer with experience in masterplanning, urban design guidance, regeneration and community engagement projects. The author of Front to back: a design agenda for urban housing, Sally is an accredited Building for Life assessor and head of urban design at HTA, where she works collaboratively with architects, landscape, planning and sustainability experts.

Jane Lock-Smith

Founder and director of cube-design ltd, Jane has expertise in regeneration, masterplanning, education (primary through to higher education), leisure and mixed-use development, large-scale residential developments and PFI / Building Schools for the Future projects. Jane is a CABE enabler, design review panellist and client design advisor on major education projects.

Martin Long

Project director at Buro Four, Martin trained at Arup as a chartered engineer. His experience includes projects in the UK, US, Turkey and the Middle East. Martin is experienced as a client, having spent seven years with Stanhope PLC, working on a range of regeneration projects from inception to completion.

Tom Lonsdale

Tom advises on strategic landscape, urban design, masterplanning and procurement issues. Formerly Manchester's chief landscape architect and director of Camlin Lonsdale, a landscape and urban design practice, he chairs three design review panels. He has been a lottery assessor for the Arts Council of England as well as judging competitions for the RIBA and in Europe.

Katherine Lowe

Katherine is an architect, head of sustainability and a leading member of the education research and design team at Sprunt Ltd. Her experience is in the design and delivery of education buildings, from early years, primary and secondary schools and F.E. She is currently working on the regeneration of Lambeth’s primary schools.

John Lyall

Managing director of John Lyall Architects, John has experience in interventions into historic buildings, mixed-use regeneration projects in city centre and waterfront settings, and housing projects. He has produced award-winning designs for rail stations and infrastructure buildings.

Robin Machell

Farida Makki

An architect, urban designer and development practitioner, Farida is a partner at Redmak Architects, working in the UK and the Sudan, with particular interest in sustainable socio- economic and environmentally responsive estate regeneration, mixed use community facilities, arts, and education projects. She is visiting degree tutor in architecture at Nottingham, Nottingham Trent and De Montfort Universities.

Graham Marshall

Graham is principal of MAXIM Urban Design and previously director of planning and design at Liverpool Vision URC, where he created and delivered the city centre strategic regeneration framework. Committed to sustainable placemaking through excellence in design and management, he is a consultant on regeneration projects, as well as sitting on several design review and enabling panels.

Michael McCarthy

Michael’s leads Work House Limited, a consultancy specialising in rural and market town regeneration. His interests include communities, engagement, intelligent housing, social needs and rural renewal and he has written books on poverty, care and the welfare state. He is trustee of the Nationwide Foundation, former chair of the Elderly Accommodation Counsel and a member of Yorkshire Forward’s Renaissance Market Towns Panel.

Jonathan McDowell

Jonathan is an architect and founding partner of McDowell & Benedetti. He is experienced in a wide range of projects, including urban regeneration, bridges, public arts, historic buildings, healthcare, education, commercial and residential. A member of the Hackney design review panel, he is visiting lecturer at various schools of architecture and professional studies advisor for Cambridge University.

Sue McGlynn

Sue is executive director of TransForm MKSM and combines this role with her work as an independent urban design consultant. She is an enabler for Creating Excellence South West and co-author of the seminal urban design text Responsive Environments: A Manual for Designers.

Philip Meadowcroft

Director of Meadowcroft Griffin Architects, Phil has experience with Sure Start Centres, NNI nurseries, community centres, healthcare, private residences, art galleries, urban design and masterplanning. Research topics include urban metabolism, regeneration, densification and sustainable urban environments. Phil is a lecturer and critic at numerous schools of architecture.

Jim Meikle

Jim is a chartered quantity surveyor, formerly a partner in Davis Langdon. He has experience in both the UK and overseas, designing and implementing research and consultancy projects, project evaluation, drafting good practice guidance and advising major clients on strategic construction and property issues. His areas of interest include housing, urban development and international comparisons.

David Mellor

David is director of Alec French Architects and has experience in a wide range of cultural and community, educational, residential, commercial, urban design and regeneration projects. He is chair of the Bristol Architecture Centre and a member of the Arts Council Capital Architecture Advisory Committee.

Paul Mercer

An architect and partner with Tangram Architects, Paul is former director of estates at health authority and NHS trust-level, specialising in healthcare buildings. He is a member of the NHS Estates design review panel, Home Office design review panel and enabling panel, DQI and AEDET facilitator and secretary of Architects for Health.

John Mitchell

John is founding partner of learning-space consultancy. He focuses on active consultation and engagement with clients, stakeholders, end users and the broader community to facilitate project development, shared vision, and creative thinking. He has expertise across a range of building types and organisations with a particular focus on schools and early years settings.

Paul Monaghan

Paul is co-founder and director of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. The award winning practice has been responsible for education, transport, arts and healthcare buildings, as well as housing and major mixed-use city-centre regeneration projects. He is lecturer and visiting professor at the Bartlett.

Malcolm Moor

A registered architect and town planner, Malcolm is a consultant urban designer and urban design tutor at Westminster University. He has experience in masterplanning, urban design frameworks, housing, urban capacity studies and design coding. He is co-editor of Urban Design Futures.

Celeste Morgan

Celeste is a sustainable design specialist and associate director at multi-disciplinary practice AECOM. She combines sustainability strategies with strategic planning, design and masterplanning, and the integration of environmental aspirations with place-making and delivery. She focuses on urban regeneration projects, strategic sustainability planning, new community designs, educational projects and eco-tourism/resort destinations

Chris Morland

Christopher is a chartered surveyor, who works as development and regeneration advisor to the public and private sectors. His expertise lies in strategic development and regeneration advise, feasibility and masterplanning, consultation, delivery and project management.

Peter Morris

Peter is co-founder and director of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. He is involved in the design, development, and review of all projects and responsible practice management. He is project partner for key transport and masterplanning projects.

Colin Munsie

Colin is an award winning architect, urban designer and planner. He has worked and lectured all over the world, and has expertise in education, elderly people’s accommodation and town centre regeneration. He is involved in the Essex Design Initiative’s exemplar projects, BSF schools, design review and master planning guidance.

Vivek Nanda

Vivek is an architect and partner at Alan Baxter, leading strategic urban design projects. He has pioneered new approaches to interpreting urban character, movement and identity, relating to key growth corridors and growth points in the UK. His work includes a 1ha brownfield regeneration for 3, dwellings in South Wales and the last grid square in Milton Keynes for 14 dwellings.

Lora Nicolaou

Lora is an architect and urban designer, currently director of urban strategies at DEGW and head of research of the Urban Renaissance Institute (URI), University of Greenwich. Her work focuses on city strategies, urban briefing and masterplanning. She is a member of the Olympics design review panel (GLA, CABE), the south east regional design panel (SERDP) and the Essex design review panel.

Valerie Owen

An architect, town planner and chartered surveyor specialising in regeneration and sustainable development, Valerie has experience in conservation work, securing complex planning permissions and maximising investment returns on property developments. Her expertise is in housing, environment and public health policy work, and she is experienced in community consultation and engagement.

Richard Partington

Richard is a co-founder and principal of Richards Partington Architects, a multi- disciplinary practice involved in urban housing and regeneration. He has expertise in low-energy design. Recent projects include work on an equitable new community in York for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and a headquarters and housing centre for a newly formed community housing association.

Steven Pidwill

Steven is an architect and director of Shepheard Epstein Hunter, specialising in masterplans, buildings for libraries, education and housing, transformation of listed and other existing buildings, developments within conservation areas and working closely with stakeholders. He is an external examiner at Cambridge and Nottingham Universities and the Bartlett, and author of the CABE briefing ‘New for old: transforming secondary schools through refurbishment’.

John Plumridge

John is co-founder of AIMS and former director of estates at De Montfort University. He specialises in estate strategy and regeneration programmes, and also has commercial real estate experience gained at English Partnerships and P+O Properties / Land Securities.

Jane Priestman

Jane is an independent design management consultant to industry and public sector clients. She has knowledge of architecture and design from the position of client, at BAA plc (design manager architecture and design) and British Rail (director architecture, design and environment). She has been awarded an OBE for services to architecture and design.

John Pringle

John is founding director of Pringle Richards Sharatt. The practice has a special interest in environmentally sustainable urban planning and building design, with projects in Sheffield, Oldham, Coventry and Hull. John is chair of the Sheffield urban design review panel, member of Westminster’s Public Art Advisory Panel and past president of the Architectural Association.

Matt Quayle

Anna Radcliffe

Anna is an architect and client design advisor with EllisMiller. She wrote CABE’s audit Assessing secondary school design quality and recently developed the BSF process map in collaboration with BuroFour. She has worked in private practice, designing award-winning education and community projects. She is a member of the Hackney design review panel and RIBA London region awards assessor.

Rahesh Ram

Rahesh runs his own practice, NAAU. He was previously an associate at Hudson Architects where he worked on housing projects, private houses, master planning and public spaces, notably the Castleford Project. He is design and technical tutor at the architecture school at Greenwich University.

Elizabeth Randall

An architect and qualified value management practitioner working for Bovis Lend Lease, Elizabeth has experience in the planning and commercial considerations of mixed use development including education, Building Schools for the Future, residential, retail and community consultation.

Adam Roake

Adam is a developer, architect and urban designer, currently planning and design director at Goldcrest Land PLC, focussing on urban regeneration through developing mixed use schemes on derelict inner city land. He has a passion for and the appropriate skills and experience to appraise, facilitate and deliver complex development and regeneration projects in an urban context.

Julian Tollast

Jon Rowland

Jon is a consultant architect and urban designer, and principal of urban design practice, JRUD. He has expertise in urban design and urban regeneration strategies based on community engagement programmes for town centres. He wrote the Strategy for Architecture and the Built Environment in the South West and co-edited Urban Design Futures.

Michael Rushe

Yvonne Rydin

Yvonne is professor of planning, environment and public policy at the Bartlett school of planning, where she specialised in urban sustainability issues. She has written widely on planning processes, environmental policy and urban governance. She was chair of the lead expert group for the recent government Foresight report Powering Our Lives on sustainable energy management and the built environment.

Ivor Samuels

Ivor is an architect and town planner specialising in urban design. His work includes town centre masterplans for the Civic Trust regeneration unit and prize winning housing schemes. His publications include What homebuyers want (CABE) and Character and identity in housing market renewal (CABE and EH). He was chair of the joint centre for urban design at Oxford Brookes University.

Peter Sandover

Principal of Sandover Associates Limited, Peter is an architect experienced in urban design, masterplanning, renewable energy and community engagement, working on both small commissions and large-scale regeneration and new urban extensions. Recent projects include the production of design guidance, aviation projects, regeneration of several towns and work for the Eden Project.

Joseph Saunders

Joseph is estate development director at the University of East Anglia, responsible for the development of a variety of sophisticated faculty buildings, student residences, welfare facilities and commercial outlets. He developed the university’s conservation development strategy, used as an exemplar by English Heritage.

Ken Schwarz

Thomas Sevcik

Thomas is co-founder and partner of Zurich- and Los Angeles-based communication think tank arthesia. Trained as an architect in Berlin, Thomas has worked on many city and region identity processes as well as large corporate and cultural real estate projects. He teaches at Central Saint Martin's College of Art in London and lectures at conferences and seminars around the world.

Paul Sheppard

Director of urban design and planning practice Taylor Young, Paul leads the Liverpool office and is advising on major projects in the city including Kings Waterfront, Mann Island and the redevelopment of Alder Hey Children's Hospital. Paul was formerly chief planner at Merseyside Development Corporation.

Nick Shute

Planner and principal of Nick Shute Associates, Nick has over 3 years professional experience in the urban regeneration and master planning fields, in both public and private sectors. His specialist expertise is in urban regeneration, master planning, project management, community engagement and infrastructure planning.

Gareth Simmons

Gareth is head of capital and asset management for Plymouth City Council’s Children’s Services, and formerly at Latham Architects. He is experienced in developing new approaches to local government procurement and has specialised in involving schools in design and implementation, particularly encouraging stakeholders to act as clients to procure good design.

Catherine Skelcher

Catherine is an architect and associate at Cottrell & Vermeulen architecture, who are exemplar architects for the Schools for the Future initiative. This experience, alongside a variety of other education, community and arts based projects, has led Catherine to develop a particular interest in establishing a clear collective vision to run through a structured process of collaboration and consultation.

Graeme Smart

Graeme is an architect and urban designer who runs his own practice. Formerly at Arup Associates, where he established and led their urban design team in Berlin, he has experience in a wide range of urban design, masterplanning, landscape architecture and arts projects.

Darryl Smith

Darryl is an access and inclusion officer at Bradford Council. He has extensive technical knowledge of inclusive policy, practice and design within the development process. He is a keen advocate of partnership working to achieve sustainable outcomes and is a member of CABE's inclusion by design group.

Katy Staton

Katy is a landscape architect and director of Farrer Huxley Associates. She strives to design, deliver and promote landscape architecture of the highest quality, within the complexities of existing environments and communities. She has worked extensively with schools, examining the importance of outdoor spaces for learning, recreation and play. She is a member of the CABE school design review panel.

Peter Stewart

Peter is an architect and principal of Peter Stewart Consultancy, which offers expert advice on architectural and planning matters. Formerly in practice and then director of CABE’s design review programme, Peter is chair of the regional design review panel for the East Midlands and a member of the London Advisory Committee of English Heritage.

George Stowell

George is an architect, planner and principal of George Stowell Chartered Practice. He was experience in the civic, cultural, working, heritage, sports and housing sectors. He is a member of the RIBA sustainable futures group, an RIBA client design advisor and advises on British standards at the RIBA design committee.

Richard Strittmatter

Richard is an architect and principal consultant with Urban Inspiration. He has worked extensively in social housing, but cross-sector experience in health, education, employment, social enterprise and social cohesion projects. His recent work includes delivering design quality, skill building, housing strategy and sustainability with pathfinders, and devising a code for sustainable homes with developers.

Judith Strong

Judith is a consultant specialising in advising and supporting clients during the initial stages of capital projects, working mainly on buildings for the arts and on community and young people's facilities. Her publications include Winning by design (architectural competitions), Encore (theatre renewal) and Building for the arts, as well as case studies for CABE and Arts Council England.

Henning Stummel

Henning is an architect running his own practice and was the winner of the RIBA London Region Building of the Year 25. He previously worked at David Chipperfield Architects and Norman Foster. He has taught at universities in Britain and abroad and directs a studio at Cambridge University.

Andrew Swain-Smith

An environmental engineer and director at BDP, Andrew leads a team of building services and environmental engineers, acousticians, specialist lighting designers and sustainability consultants delivering passive, low energy, sustainable schools, academies and colleges across the UK. Andrew is committed to a collaborative approach to design, focusing on places and environments for people.

Mike Taylor

Mike is a director at Hopkins Architects. He has experience in libraries, arts, education and leisure building projects for public and private bodies. Recent projects include The Forum, Norwich and a low-energy building for Northern Arizona University. Mike has lectured widely at UK schools of architecture and taught a postgraduate design studio at Yale University.

Andy Thompson

Andy is principal of Andy Thompson Architects, a consultancy specialising in all aspects of school building and education design. He is experienced in design and management of a range of primary, secondary and tertiary projects and in providing advice and guidance to local authorities, diocesan bodies and architects. He previously held senior positions at the Department for Education.

Vincent Thompson

Principal of Vincent Thompson Architects, Vincent is experienced in town planning, urban design, interior design, regeneration and masterplanning, and has worked on projects in the commercial, retail, leisure, residential, office and arts sectors.

Julian S Robinson

Julian is project director at the Queen Mary University of London, responsible for delivering the university’s capital programme. He has extensive project management experience in consultant selection and building procurement.

David Tonkinson

Stuart Turner

Stuart is an architect, urban designer and principal of ST Associates, specialising in place making, master planning and regeneration. He has experience in both public and private sectors, covering city centre and historic environments, housing developments, urban extensions and sustainable communities. He is involved in a range of community and civic work and is a member of the HCA place making group.

David Turrent

A founding partner and now director of ECD Architects Ltd, David has worked in private practice and local government. His main expertise lies in the design of sustainable buildings and he has experience in the residential, education, arts and leisure sectors. He is a member of the RIBA Sustainable Futures Committee.

Andy Van Vliet

An urban designer specialising in residential development and neighbourhood regeneration, Andy is currently housing market renewal development team leader at Sheffield City Council. He has long-standing experience working with local authorities on design, planning and regeneration policy and projects.

Franziska Wagner

Franziska is an architect and principal of ‘team 51.5º architects’, working on education, housing and leisure projects in the UK and Germany. She has experience in urban planning and landscaping and is a senior lecturer at the University of Greenwich, focusing on the upkeep of postwar buildings.

John Waldron

John is an architectural consultant and former director of architecture plb, responsible for education projects and sustainability issues. He has knowledge of PFI and integrated procurement methods, and is a member of the RIBA Schools Client Forum and a professional practice examiner at Portsmouth University.

Helen Walker

Helen is a planner and independent strategic policy consultant, delivering sustainable communities. She is a government advisor, a consultant to SEEDA and to CABE’s sustainable cities programme. She has previously worked on skills policy development for government departments and local government, and as IDeA’s national advisor on sustainable communities. Helen has also held several academic research posts.

Simon Warren

Simon is an architect and director at Bauman Lyons Architects in Leeds. He is experienced in arts, refurbishment, creative industries, healthcare (LIFT and traditional procurement), community projects, public realm and urban design projects.

Mary Webster

An educationalist and qualified teacher, Mary manages Key Educational Associates, a team of professionals committed to raising educational standards for all. She has wide experience in advising on and guiding the design of educational buildings and spaces, working on numerous school projects across the UK.

Tony Whitehead

Tony is head of construction and built environment for Defence Estates, the MoD agency for construction projects, including housing, offices, a new defence academy, health centres and specialised defence facilities. He has developed defence DQI, known as DEEP. His previous experience is in heritage and at UDC as urban designer.

Anne Williams

Peter Williams

Peter is director of Green Cube Architects (GCA), having previously worked for Make Architects and Architecture PLB. He specialises in the design and delivery of community focused and education projects, including Building Schools for the Future and Higher Education projects. He is currently working on range of research and collaborative design projects across Europe.

Sue Williams

Sue is an architect working for Sheffield City Council, predominantly on education projects. Since 1999 she has been heavily involved in PFI and partnering projects with private sector contractors. More recently she has been working on primary schools and is involved in writing a generic brief to address transformational learning within this sector.

Marcus Wilshere

Marcus is associate director at Urban Initiatives. His main areas of expertise are urban design, building design and procurement, arts and cultural projects, conservation-led regeneration, sustainable development, housing and community participation. He teaches at the University of Westminster and is chair of the Urban Design Group.

Charles Wilson

A consultant architect and town planner, Charles is a member of the English Heritage Advisory Committee and CABE/EH Urban Panel, DCMS appointee to the Church Commissioners Closed Churches Committee, vice-chair of the North West Design Review Panel, and a member of the Creating Excellence South West Enabling Panel.

Jonathan Wilson

Architect and partner at David Morley Architects, Jonathan is experienced in healthcare projects, notably acute and primary care, community and mental health sector buildings. He writes and lectures on architecture.

Daniel Wong

Daniel trained as an architect in Australia. He was practice principal for Arup Associates and is now director of the architectural practice degrees51N Ltd, based in Bath. He has experience of community, civic and commercial projects - housing, libraries and schools, workplace environments, and mixed use urban regeneration projects.

Robert Wood

An architect, principal and co-founder of Duo, Rob has extensive experience in the transport sector, having worked on Waterloo International, the Heathrow Express, and the Jubilee Line. His key skills lie in strategic thinking and world-class design. Currently his work is focused on urban regeneration, the public realm and sustainability issues.

Nicola Woodward

Urban Planner who has recently taken up post as Head of Planning and Housing Strategy at Newcastle City Council. Her experience and interest lies particularly in place making, urban regeneration projects and public participation in the regeneration process. Nicola has just moved into the public sector after 12 years in private practice. Most recently she jointly headed up Arup's Planning Group in Newcastle and was previously a Practice Director at Llewelyn Davies. She has worked on and led a number of major master planning projects dealing with everything from tricky former industrial sites; to community led master plans; to PPS12 compliant SPDs and AAPs; to developing good practice policy and guidance at the national and local level; to assessing the quality of places and providing urban design awareness training.

Geoff Wright

Sui-Te Wu

An expert on design and strategic client advice, Sui-Te is experienced in education projects, transport and public sector initiatives, championing high quality design and supporting client organisations in developing a strong vision. As group design director in NPS Group, Sui-Te steers the group wide strategic design direction, championing commitment to design excellence.

Giuseppe Zanre

A town planner and planning director of David Wilson Homes (Southern), Giuseppe has a wealth of experience in project managing multidisciplinary teams, delivering high profile residential planning permissions, mixed use developments, and longer term strategic residential developments, for the public and private sectors.