The Green Register Team
Lucy Pedler
Lucy is an architect with 23 years of professional experience in the UK and USA and has particular expertise in the sustainable issues relevant to architecture.
Lucy worked as a Product Specialist at Construction Resources, the UK’s first Ecological Building Centre, for five years. She spent the first two years researching the environmental impact of ecologically sound building materials and systems and the subsequent three years advising architects and other professionals on the appropriate selection of building materials. She was also responsible for running the seminar programme at Construction Resources and still makes regular presentations to architects and other organisations as part of The Green Register team.
In 1999, Lucy started her own sustainable architecture practice, archipeleco, designing buildings that have a low impact on the environment. In addition to sustainable design, the practice also acts as consultants to architectural practices and other organisations. Consultancy work includes creating information for website content, information leaflets and advising on sustainable building issues. In 2005, Lucy’s husband Paul McWilliams joined the company as co-director.
Lucy created The Green Register in 2000 as part of her lifelong commitment to the promotion of sustainable building.
Brian Murphy
Anyone who is an architect by training and specification consultant by choice has got to be a boring old fart, but Brian’s last 30+ years in the industry have been challenging and gratifying; greening up his act since 1999 these have been the most enjoyable. In 24 years of consultancy he specified large and small projects with a cumulative value of over £2200m. He founded National Green Specification (NGS) GreenSpec in 2001 to try to right the wrongs of many fellow architects and to challenge the establishment that maintains status quo.
Brian’s highlights are working with students and practicing architects to enable them to achieve the ideas in their heads; bringing extensive materials, construction know-how and an environmental focus to the drawing board and with driving enthusiasm for competency in exhilarating solutions.
The boring old fart comes out from time to time when Brian reverts to Specification writing to the last dot and crossed tee in 400 page competent, robust, he would argue exquisite, specifications that are not rushed over the weekend; or when he gets pleasure from power over numbers in Excel spreadsheets including WasteCost® lite Calculator.
Brian has an appetite for recording what he has learned so he does not have to remember it (there is only so much he can keep in all at the same time), so is passing on this knowledge of environmentally sound design and construction through the www.GreenSpec.co.uk website and has developed specifications for: products & materials; waste minimisation/management of materials/packaging; reclaim for reuse/recycling, and over 520 PowerPoint files on Environmentally Sustainable Construction, Specification and Professional Practice CPD seminars, all of which will find their way on to the site to download.
Brian was also on the AECB committee, remains a member and is working on the AECB CarbonLite Programme, and has fingers in many others’ project pies.
Cath Hassell
Cath is an expert in sustainable water strategies and integrated water management formed from a background of 14 years experience in the conventional plumbing industry and 10 years in environmental building. From 1998 – 2004 she worked at Construction Resources, designing and implementing rainwater harvesting and water efficient systems for domestic, commercial and industrial sites, and was a founder member of the UKRHA. She set up ech2o in 2004 and works with councils, developers, housing associations, architects and engineers, at both a strategic and individual site level, to successfully incorporate sustainable water systems into the built environment.
Robert Borruso
Robert has studied to degree level both mechanical engineering and environmental science and has 10 years’ experience in both fields. This combination gives him an exceptional understanding of the issues associated with moving sustainable energy systems from the fridges to the mainstream of the construction industry, with a focus very much on delivering pragmatic and workable solutions. Robert works as an independent energy consultant with a client base ranging from small community groups to housing associations. He also has extensive experience in troubleshooting existing underperforming, renewable energy installations. He also occasionally writes on environmental issues in his own, often controversial, style.
Robert’s previous professional experience includes four years as a Product Specialist at Construction Resources Environmental Building Centre and as a Renewable Energy advisor at Sustainable Energy Action, both in London.
Jean-Pierre Wack
Jean-Pierre is Managing Director of Eight Associates, a licensed EcoHomes and Code for Sustainable Homes assessor and is responsible for taking schemes from planning through to certification. He also provides energy modelling and renewable energy design advice.
