Unlocking building sustainability

Brian Berry is the Chief Executive of the Federation of Master Builders (FMB), the largest trade association in the building industry. He is also a member of the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) and Chair of the CLC Domestic Repair Maintenance & Improvement Working Group. Prior to his current position Brian was Director of External Affairs at the FMB with responsibility for UK and EU policy, public affairs and media relations. Before the FMB, he worked at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), where he was Head of UK Public Policy. Brian regularly provides commentary on construction issues for television, national and trade press.

Secretary General of EuroACE – Energy Efficient Buildings, whose members are Europe’s leading companies that provide the products, equipment and services that go together to create highly energy efficient buildings.  EuroACE monitors the work of the EU Institutions and consistently calls for an ambitious EU policy and legislation framework that will deliver highly energy efficient and decarbonised buildings by 2050.

Adrian Joyce is also the Campaign Director of the Renovate Europe Campaign, which was initiated by EuroACE in 2011 to stop energy waste in buildings.  Its ambition is to reduce the energy demand of the building stock in the EU by 80% by 2050 as compared to 2005.

Adrian Joyce is a professionally qualified architect who spent 17 years in private before getting involved full-time in buildings-related EU policy.  He holds a part-time post teaching Construction Technology at the Catholic University of Louvain-le-Neuve, and he was Chairman of the Coalition for Energy Savings from May 2017 to December 2020.

Emily Braham is Head of Strategy and Operations within the Market Development Team at Energiesprong UK. Emily has an MSc in area based retrofit, and 16 years of experience in the social housing sector, delivering some of the UK’s most innovative retrofit schemes. She is passionate about using collective action to drive energy efficiency in the sector and brings hands-on knowledge and creative thinking to help solve our net zero challenges.

Already a ‘veteran technology entrepreneur’ having built and sold one of Scotland’s most successful medical technology businesses, Andrew pursued his passion for entrepreneurship when he founded Sunamp in 2005.  His aim was to develop an affordable and sustainable solution for heat energy storage for commercial and domestic markets. He lead one of the most exciting academic and industry partnerships in Scotland, teaming up with the University of Edinburgh to develop the unique heat energy storage phase-change material used in Sunamp batteries.  Andrew is Sunamp’s visionary and drives the senior management team in setting strategy and extending Sunamp’s product and technology lead.

Brian Berry is the Chief Executive of the Federation of Master Builders (FMB), the largest trade association in the building industry. He is also a member of the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) and Chair of the CLC Domestic Repair Maintenance & Improvement Working Group. Prior to his current position Brian was Director of External Affairs at the FMB with responsibility for UK and EU policy, public affairs and media relations. Before the FMB, he worked at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), where he was Head of UK Public Policy. Brian regularly provides commentary on construction issues for television, national and trade press.

Secretary General of EuroACE – Energy Efficient Buildings, whose members are Europe’s leading companies that provide the products, equipment and services that go together to create highly energy efficient buildings.  EuroACE monitors the work of the EU Institutions and consistently calls for an ambitious EU policy and legislation framework that will deliver highly energy efficient and decarbonised buildings by 2050.

Adrian Joyce is also the Campaign Director of the Renovate Europe Campaign, which was initiated by EuroACE in 2011 to stop energy waste in buildings.  Its ambition is to reduce the energy demand of the building stock in the EU by 80% by 2050 as compared to 2005.

Adrian Joyce is a professionally qualified architect who spent 17 years in private before getting involved full-time in buildings-related EU policy.  He holds a part-time post teaching Construction Technology at the Catholic University of Louvain-le-Neuve, and he was Chairman of the Coalition for Energy Savings from May 2017 to December 2020.

Emily Braham is Head of Strategy and Operations within the Market Development Team at Energiesprong UK. Emily has an MSc in area based retrofit, and 16 years of experience in the social housing sector, delivering some of the UK’s most innovative retrofit schemes. She is passionate about using collective action to drive energy efficiency in the sector and brings hands-on knowledge and creative thinking to help solve our net zero challenges.

Already a ‘veteran technology entrepreneur’ having built and sold one of Scotland’s most successful medical technology businesses, Andrew pursued his passion for entrepreneurship when he founded Sunamp in 2005.  His aim was to develop an affordable and sustainable solution for heat energy storage for commercial and domestic markets. He lead one of the most exciting academic and industry partnerships in Scotland, teaming up with the University of Edinburgh to develop the unique heat energy storage phase-change material used in Sunamp batteries.  Andrew is Sunamp’s visionary and drives the senior management team in setting strategy and extending Sunamp’s product and technology lead.

Dame Judith was appointed as Chair of Make UK (formerly EEF) in April 2016. She was HSE Chair from October 2007-March 2016. She previously served as a Commissioner between 2002 and 2005. 

Dame Judith is a chemical engineer. She worked in the chemicals manufacturing industry for 23 years before joining the Chemical Industries Association in 1998. She became CIA Director General (from 2002-2005) then worked in Brussels for the European Chemical Industry Association (CEFIC).

She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2010 and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees. Dame Judith is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical.

Dame Judith is also Chair of Enginuity (formerly SEMTA), senior NED of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult and a NED of HS2 Ltd. In August 2017 Dame Judith was asked by DCLG to Chair an Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety and her final report was published in May 2018. She now acts as an Independent Adviser to Government on Building Safety.

Joanne is Chief Strategic Advisor at the ADE and also works as an independent consultant. Her areas of expertise include local energy systems, energy efficiency in buildings, energy sufficiency and the multiple benefits of energy demand reduction. 

Joanne chairs the Advisory Board for the Centre for Research on Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) and the Research Committee for the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). She is a member of the advisory boards for UKERC, EnergyREV (the research element of Innovate UK’s ‘Prospering from the Energy Revolution’ programme), the Energy Futures Lab at Imperial College London and the Sussex Energy Group.

Joanne has a PhD, MSc in Environmental Technology (Energy Policy) and BSc in Chemistry with Management Science from Imperial College London. She is a Fellow and Member of Council of the Energy Institute. She was appointed an OBE in 2018 for services to energy efficiency.

Nick Mabey is the Chief Executive of E3G and a founder director since 2006.  In addition to his leadership role, he engages on issues of climate diplomacy, foreign policy, European politics and the security implications of climate change and resource scarcity.

Nick is a regular commentator and public speaker on climate change issues in the global media and on social media.

Nick participates in a range of external appointments including as a London Sustainable Development Commissioner, a trustee of Ashden, a Friend of COP 26 and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Energy Transition. Nick has also been instrumental in leading London Climate Action Week since its founding in 2019.

Previously Nick was a senior advisor in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit leading work on climate change, countries at risk of instability and organised crime. He was seconded to help establish the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Environment Policy Department and climate diplomacy network in 1999.

Nick was Head of Economics and Development at WWF-UK following research at London Business School on the macroeconomics of climate change which was published as “Argument in the Greenhouse”. Nick has a degree in mechanical engineering from Bristol University and a Masters in Technology and Policy from MIT. He began his career as an engineer in the UK electricity industry.

Peter Sweatman has spent 27 years in finance of which 17 are climate finance and energy efficiency. He is the Chief Executive of Climate Strategy & Partners (@ClimateSt), a strategic consulting group in Clean Energy, Clean Technology Innovation and Energy Efficiency working with leading companies and policymakers in the global energy transition. Peter is also Chairman and founder of Energy Efficiency Capital Advisors an expert solution provider and finance structuring partner for over Euro 60 million of finance for energy savings and on-site power in Spanish cities.

Peter has published fifteen white papers and chaired, moderated or spoken at 357 conferences and workshops on the global energy transition to a climate neutral economy. Peter is a founder advisor to the Climate Bond Initiative, an active member of the Ashoka Support Network, advisor to the Climate Lab, Braemar Energy Ventures, rapporteur for EU Commission and UNEP FI’s EEFIG and G20’s EEFTG, member of the steering committee of the Global Alliance for Energy Productivity, Build-Upon and the Investor Confidence Project Europe, board member of Menorca Preservation Fund and visiting lecturer at IIT-Comillas university. Over the last 3 years, Peter has also developed an engaged interest in funding innovation for European decarbonisation since chairing and writing-up a 250-expert process to input to the design of the EU ETS Innovation fund and publishing a 2018 review of EU finance for competitive innovation for net-zero emissions by 2050.

Peter holds an MA Cantab degree in Engineering and Management Studies from Cambridge University. In 1991, he joined JPMorgan in Corporate Finance where he spent 9 years responsible for client business, mainly in debt capital markets, for Spain, Portugal, Austria and Switzerland based in London and then for Mexico and other Latin American countries from New York. In the year 2000, Peter became a social entrepreneur to found three successful and high impact NGOs: Charity Digital, New Philanthropy Capital and Catalyst Climate Change Trust. From 2005, Peter was a Managing Director in Bunge-Climate Change Capital that was – from 2004-2010 - one of the world’s leading specialist fund managers and advisors in the low carbon economy.

Dame Judith was appointed as Chair of Make UK (formerly EEF) in April 2016. She was HSE Chair from October 2007-March 2016. She previously served as a Commissioner between 2002 and 2005. 

Dame Judith is a chemical engineer. She worked in the chemicals manufacturing industry for 23 years before joining the Chemical Industries Association in 1998. She became CIA Director General (from 2002-2005) then worked in Brussels for the European Chemical Industry Association (CEFIC).

She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2010 and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees. Dame Judith is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical.

Dame Judith is also Chair of Enginuity (formerly SEMTA), senior NED of the High Value Manufacturing Catapult and a NED of HS2 Ltd. In August 2017 Dame Judith was asked by DCLG to Chair an Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety and her final report was published in May 2018. She now acts as an Independent Adviser to Government on Building Safety.

Joanne is Chief Strategic Advisor at the ADE and also works as an independent consultant. Her areas of expertise include local energy systems, energy efficiency in buildings, energy sufficiency and the multiple benefits of energy demand reduction. 

Joanne chairs the Advisory Board for the Centre for Research on Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) and the Research Committee for the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC). She is a member of the advisory boards for UKERC, EnergyREV (the research element of Innovate UK’s ‘Prospering from the Energy Revolution’ programme), the Energy Futures Lab at Imperial College London and the Sussex Energy Group.

Joanne has a PhD, MSc in Environmental Technology (Energy Policy) and BSc in Chemistry with Management Science from Imperial College London. She is a Fellow and Member of Council of the Energy Institute. She was appointed an OBE in 2018 for services to energy efficiency.

Nick Mabey is the Chief Executive of E3G and a founder director since 2006.  In addition to his leadership role, he engages on issues of climate diplomacy, foreign policy, European politics and the security implications of climate change and resource scarcity.

Nick is a regular commentator and public speaker on climate change issues in the global media and on social media.

Nick participates in a range of external appointments including as a London Sustainable Development Commissioner, a trustee of Ashden, a Friend of COP 26 and a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Energy Transition. Nick has also been instrumental in leading London Climate Action Week since its founding in 2019.

Previously Nick was a senior advisor in the UK Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit leading work on climate change, countries at risk of instability and organised crime. He was seconded to help establish the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s Environment Policy Department and climate diplomacy network in 1999.

Nick was Head of Economics and Development at WWF-UK following research at London Business School on the macroeconomics of climate change which was published as “Argument in the Greenhouse”. Nick has a degree in mechanical engineering from Bristol University and a Masters in Technology and Policy from MIT. He began his career as an engineer in the UK electricity industry.

Peter Sweatman has spent 27 years in finance of which 17 are climate finance and energy efficiency. He is the Chief Executive of Climate Strategy & Partners (@ClimateSt), a strategic consulting group in Clean Energy, Clean Technology Innovation and Energy Efficiency working with leading companies and policymakers in the global energy transition. Peter is also Chairman and founder of Energy Efficiency Capital Advisors an expert solution provider and finance structuring partner for over Euro 60 million of finance for energy savings and on-site power in Spanish cities.

Peter has published fifteen white papers and chaired, moderated or spoken at 357 conferences and workshops on the global energy transition to a climate neutral economy. Peter is a founder advisor to the Climate Bond Initiative, an active member of the Ashoka Support Network, advisor to the Climate Lab, Braemar Energy Ventures, rapporteur for EU Commission and UNEP FI’s EEFIG and G20’s EEFTG, member of the steering committee of the Global Alliance for Energy Productivity, Build-Upon and the Investor Confidence Project Europe, board member of Menorca Preservation Fund and visiting lecturer at IIT-Comillas university. Over the last 3 years, Peter has also developed an engaged interest in funding innovation for European decarbonisation since chairing and writing-up a 250-expert process to input to the design of the EU ETS Innovation fund and publishing a 2018 review of EU finance for competitive innovation for net-zero emissions by 2050.

Peter holds an MA Cantab degree in Engineering and Management Studies from Cambridge University. In 1991, he joined JPMorgan in Corporate Finance where he spent 9 years responsible for client business, mainly in debt capital markets, for Spain, Portugal, Austria and Switzerland based in London and then for Mexico and other Latin American countries from New York. In the year 2000, Peter became a social entrepreneur to found three successful and high impact NGOs: Charity Digital, New Philanthropy Capital and Catalyst Climate Change Trust. From 2005, Peter was a Managing Director in Bunge-Climate Change Capital that was – from 2004-2010 - one of the world’s leading specialist fund managers and advisors in the low carbon economy.