Paul Appleby

Paul Appleby is a specialist in sustainability with a background in environmental engineering and low carbon design of buildings. He is a Chartered Engineer with a First Class Honours Degree in Environmental Engineering and is an Honorary Fellow of CIBSE and a Fellow of the RSA. He advises design and masterplanning teams on the integrated sustainable design of buildings and communities. He has worked in the construction industry as a consultant, lecturer and researcher for some 55 years,...See more

Paul Appleby is a specialist in sustainability with a background in environmental engineering and low carbon design of buildings. He is a Chartered Engineer with a First Class Honours Degree in Environmental Engineering and is an Honorary Fellow of CIBSE and a Fellow of the RSA. He advises design and masterplanning teams on the integrated sustainable design of buildings and communities. He has worked in the construction industry as a consultant, lecturer and researcher for some 55 years, including 25 years' international consultancy experience with the URS Corporation (now AECOM) running practices specialising in building health and sustainability, and working with some of the world's leading architects and developers on high profile and award winning projects such as Battersea Power Station, Scottish National Heritage hq Inverness, Tate Modern extension, Greenwich Millennium Village and the Pinnacle tower Bishopsgate. As well as writing some 70 publications, including key guidance published by CIBSE and others, his book Integrated Sustainable Design of Buildings has appeared in a list of the Cambridge University's 'Top 40 Sustainability Books of 2010'. His follow up: Sustainable Retrofit & Facilities Management was published in January 2013. Both published by Earthscan. Paul has 10 years' experience of design review, participating in more than 100 panel meetings. He has been a Design Council Built Environment Expert since 2012, a panel member for Design South East since 2015 and was a member of the HS2 Independent Design Panel for 4 years. Paul has also been actively involved with the UK Green Building Council, participating in a number of Task Groups including developing Retrofit Incentives and, in concert with the World GBC, exploring the relationships between productivity, health & wellbeing and sustainability in the office environment. See less