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Nick James
BSc MArch
Futureground
Nick is a sustainability professional with 20+ years’ experience working in investment, development, design and construction organisations. He’s an expert in the development and regeneration of housing, mixed and merged-use schemes. Nick applies design thinking to the “software” of how buildings, places and supporting services are designed, delivered, governed, managed and curated. He has a passion for the repurposing existing buildings and is a qualified retrofit coordinator. He’s founding director of sustainable place strategists, Futureground.
Sarah John
BA (Hons) Dip Arch, MA (Arch Cons), RIBA
GJR Conservation Ltd
Sarah has reported on listed buildings within the Devon and Cornwall area, researched much of Exeter’s Regency fabric, undertaken research on the listed buildings of Topsham and carried out faculty work for the Church of St Mary Aylesbeare. She is a registered RIBA Conservation Architect and works closely with local listed building officers, English Heritage and Church Faculties. The Practice concentrates on smaller projects, extensions, barn conversions and conservation area work but has also been involved in projects up to £9 million. Sarah’s knowledge of modern architecture is invaluable when adding modern insertions into listed fabric or a new dwelling in a conservation area.
Phil Jones
BSc (Hons) CEng FICE FICHT FIHE
Phil Jones Associates
Phil is an engineer with extensive experience in transport planning and street design, particularly in new developments. He aims to achieve synergy between street and urban design to create places and spaces that meet aesthetic, social and functional aims. He is the Chairman of PJA, a 135-strong transport, engineering and placemaking consultancy. In recent years Phil has specialised in active travel and is a Non-Executive Director of Active Travel England, an Agency of the Department for Transport.
Anthony Jones
BSc Environmental Assessment
Glanville Group
Anthony is a transport planner with over 20 years experience in leading transport planning teams in providing highway and transportation planning advice for a wide variety of clients and development schemes in the residential, retail, education, leisure, industrial and office sectors. Anthony joined Glanville as a Technical Director in January 2023. Before that he was a Director at Pegasus Group primarily responsible for launching the new transport team offer in 2018.
Sarah Jones-Morris
BA (Hons), PGDipLA, MA UD, FLI
Landsmith Associates
Sarah is a multi-award winning landscape architect, urban designer and director of Bristol-based Landsmith Associates. Her passion is climate resilience, health and wildlife led projects, with experience ranging from rural to urban, small-scale courtyards to urban extensions, early feasibility studies to post-implementation reviews. She is a Design Council expert, a Fellow of the Landscape Institute, Building with Nature associate, contributes to the citizen-science project Hush City and is the co-director of the global Association of Collaborative Design CIC. She is a frequent speaker at conferences and events, and facilitates workshops with Design West.
Simon Kale
BA (Hons) CMLI
Nicholas Pearson Associates
Simon is a Chartered Landscape Architect with over 25 years’ experience in urban and rural projects including those within green and brownfield sites. Work has included site analysis, impact assessment and the design of integrated mitigation proposals. Landscape master-planning and design experience has included new residential, commercial and infrastructure developments from conceptual design to detailed proposals including the successful integration of scheme proposals into sensitive landscape contexts.
Julia Kashdan-Brown
BSc Hons, BArch, ARB, RIBA
Kashdan-Brown Architects
Julia has expertise in a wide range of building types across several sectors, with experience in arts-related buildings, artist collaborations, education, master-planning and residential projects. She was a partner at FCBS from 1998-2009 and has been a director of Bath-based practice Kashdan-Brown Architects since 2011. Julia has also been a Teaching Fellow at the University of Bath since 2009. She currently tutors the final two years of BSc and the first year of MArch.
Funda Kemal
BSc DipArch RIBA
Freelance Architect, Lecturer at Bath and Bath Spa Universities
Funda is a creative freelancer and lecturer with unique experience as Urban Designer, Architect, Educator, Expert Witness, Photographer, Writer and founder member of not for profit collective ‘Architecture Is…’ in Bath. She has specialist experience in regeneration, conservation, retrofit and zero carbon design and in achieving quality designs in charity, policy and planning contexts. Funda also develops accessible and inclusive community consultation methods to engage diverse communities in design proposals for the places they live.
Mike Keys
BSc BArch RIBA
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Mike is a partner at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and has designed a range of residential, sports, leisure and master planning projects, with a particular focus on the higher education sector, including working for the University of Bristol. Mike led the 2008 Stirling Prize winning team on Accordia, a substantial residential scheme in Cambridge widely regarded as setting a new benchmark for housing design in the UK. He has also designed residential schemes in London, Bath, Manchester and Bristol.
