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Chris Borak
BSc PGDip MIOA
Hydrock
Chris has two decades of experience in engineering and 16 years as an Acoustic Engineering Consultant. He has provided design advise and assessments for a diverse range of projects from nationally significant infrastructure to local arts venues. He has specialised in the control of noise & vibration and acoustic design of buildings, collaborating with design teams across sectors, including: education, music & arts, film & TV, industrial, defence, research, energy, leisure, residential, health care and education.
Úna Breathnach Hifearnáin
PgC PP, BArch, BA(Hons), BA Int Arch, ARB, RIBA, CMLI
McGregor Coxall
Úna is a RIBA chartered architect and a CMLI chartered landscape architect with 12 years of post qualification experience in the built environment sector. Úna has worked as an interdisciplinary professional in McGregor Coxall for five years specialising in Urban design, Masterplanning, Biourbanism and Landscape architecture. She has led a number of Bristol based projects including East Street Placemaking, Redcliffe Way, Haymarket and Quakers Friars with a keen focus on placemaking and integration of climate resilient solutions that bring people closer to nature.
Tom Brown
MSc, BSc (Hons), BREEAM AP, CIBSE LCC & LCEA, CEnv
Hoare Lea
Since joining Hoare Lea as a Graduate in 2013, Tom has gained over 9 year’s experience as a Sustainability Consultant. Tom has led on a range of project typologies of varying scales, with a focus on office and residential development in the South West region, particularly Bristol. Tom now leads a team of consultants across Hoare Lea offices in Bristol and Cardiff, striving to deliver best in class sustainable assets. Tom joined the Design West panel in 2022.
Matt Brown
BA (Hons), MArch, ARB
Bristol City Council
Matt Brown is an Architect and Development Manager with a history of working across art, architecture, planning, development, and urban design. He currently works in the public sector as a Development Manager in Bristol City Council's Housing Delivery Team. He has previously worked for Croydon Council, East, public works, Alex Schweder, and Freehaus, and is skilled in design, fabrication, development management, teaching, and policy development.
Emma Bryant
BA(Hons), MSc, IHBC
Purcell Architecture
Emma is a senior heritage consultant with over a decade of experience advising clients, architects and other disciplines on the sensitive adaptation of historic buildings and the design of new buildings within the historic environment. Emma provides recommendations and appraisal of sites and schemes from feasibility stage through to application. Emma’s work also includes heritage expertise for local authorities and Historic England including acting as a conservation officer and preparing conservation area management plans.
Yuli Cadney-Toh
BA(Arch) Hon Dip Arch RIBA
Chair
Yuli is an architect with over 25 years’ experience in international architecture, leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver design-led buildings in Europe, the USA and Australia. Her architectural career has involved design and management of projects from inception to completion, and includes commercial towers, airports, residential spaces and workplaces. In recent years her emphasis has been on working with cross-disciplinary teams on residential and mixed-use urban regeneration schemes in the UK, integrating architectural, urbanism and landscape principles.
Alison Caldwell
CEng, MICE, MEng (hons)
Phil Jones Associates
Alison is a champion of integration of water within new development, passionately advocating for acceptance of water as an asset, and striving to ensure new development is climate resilient. She has extensive experience in flood risk and water management (surface, foul and supply), green/blue infrastructure, climate analysis and resilience and hydraulic modelling; working on all elements of project delivery, from feasibility to construction, in both private and public sectors at strategic, regional and local scales.
Sophie Camburn
MA(Cantab) MSc RIBA FRSA
Arup
Sophie is an architect and masterplanner with over 20 years’ experience. She leads Arup’s Integrated City Planning and Placemaking services in the west of the UK, with a focus on complex, multi-disciplinary projects for government, private and public-sector clients. Sophie’s work involves creating outcomes that align with global agendas, including the UN Sustainable Development Goals, to deliver inclusive benefits for people and places. She is a passionate advocate of design excellence and collaborative working to tell simple and compelling stories that align with political agendas and infrastructure funding streams.
Andrew Cameron
MEng Architectural Eng, MSc Transport Planning Eng
Andrew Cameron & Associates
Andrew is an engineer with a background in transport, architectural engineering and urban design. He is passionate about how we can plan for low-carbon, active movement whilst at the same time creating great streets and enjoyable places. With 30 years’ experience he has contributed to many masterplanning and regeneration projects for villages, towns and cities in the United Kingdom and around the world. These include Poundbury in Dorchester, Derwenthorpe in York, Chicago Lakeside and the new town of Madinat Khalifa in Bahrain.
