READY TO MAKE PROGRESS

Our post-pandemic ‘awakening’ seems perfect timing to address our environmental and sustainability goals. What are your plans for progressing the Architects Declare movement?

We’re in the process of setting up a working party and while we haven’t agreed on the team yet, it’s an impressive range of engineers, services engineers, architects, academics, a water engineer and a graduate as well. They’re already sending through ideas about what to do. We’re currently writing the terms of reference for that group

What are the group’s aims and when will it start working?

We’ll try and meet as quickly as we can. We want to make the findings available for architects working at any scale of practice and building. We also need to make our guidance practical, so that people can do it easily, whether it’s for the smallest house alteration or the biggest multi-story building.

One of my areas of interest is fixing up our existing housing stock. Some of the things that we need