UKGBC announces new Solutions & Innovation Advisory Group
Meet the members of UKGBC's new Advisory Scheme who are supporting our Solutions & Innovation workstream.

It can be hard to keep up with the latest developments in sustainable innovation, but UKGBC’s Solutions & Innovation Team is continuously sourcing and profiling impactful solutions, talking to both innovators and the industry adopting them to understand their impacts.
UKGBC’s Solutions & Innovation workstream seeks to:
Our new Solutions & Innovation Advisory group was convened to support with the workstream’s activities by:
Reviewing new solutions and case studies for inclusion in the Solutions Library to ensure their quality and appropriateness to UKGBC’s mission and membership base.
Providing market insight and solution development advice to UKGBC’s Innovative Start-Up members to help them refine their offering and business models.
Meet the group here:
Name | Title | Company |
---|---|---|
Tha’er Abdalla | Senior Sustainability Consultant | Cundall |
Sarah Allaoui | Senior Associate | Hoare Lea |
Emily Barrett | Corporate Innovation Director | Sustainable Ventures |
Gillian Brown | Senior Manager – Sustainable Design | Lloyds Banking Group |
Victoria Burrows | Strategic Partnerships & Insights | KOMPAS VC |
Anna Cuanolo | Senior Flood Engineer | Arup |
Nic Crawley | Technical Director, Sustainability Lead at ESA Architects | WSP |
Monica Donaldson-Balan | Associate Building Physics Engineer | Mott MacDonald |
Lydia Dutton | Director – Regional Sustainability Lead | CBRE |
Ankita Dwivedi | Co-Founder and CEO | Firstplanit |
Hayley Newman | Associate Director ‑ Sustainability | MAPP |
Stabrag Fadil | Sustainable Energy Engineer | Hilson Moran Partnership |
Tim Forman | Partner and Founder | Undivided Ventures Ltd |
Ian Fuller | Director | BL3 Consulting Ltd |
Shruti Ganesh | Sustainability consultant | Sweco |
Andres Guzman | Head of ESG, Europe | Tishman Speyer Properties (UK) Ltd |
Phanos Hadjikyriakou | Co-Founder and CEO | 2050 Materials Holding Ltd |
Paloma Hermoso | Associate Partner and Retrofit Lead | Ward Williams Associates |
Fionnuala Hogan | Director | Cuisle Consulting |
Catriona Hyland | Investment Research Analyst | NOA |
Roger Macklin | Associate Director | Hoare Lea |
Elliot Marsden | UKIMEA Region Manager | Arup |
Matt Mason | Head of Innovation | The Crown Estate |
Sara Nain Hallett | Technical Director | AKSWard |
Burhan Pisavadi | Investment Manager | Proptech1 Ventures |
Francesco Pomponi | Co-Founder and CSO | Preoptima Ltd |
David Portway | Sustainability Manager | Grosvenor |
Eliot Powell | Sustainability Consultant | Troup Bywaters + Anders LLP |
Dr Aleksandra Przydrozna | Associate Director | Mace |
Monisha Selvaraju | Sustainability Consultant | Envision |
Jack Sibley | Head of PropTech & Innovation | Argent (Property Development) Services LLP |
Sam Szczurek | Innovation Lead | Places for London |
Natasha Terinova | Director | REACH UK |
Jack Wardale | Director | EcoBuild Advisory (EBA) Ltd |
James Warne | Director | Buro Happold Engineering |
Taylor Westcoatt | General Partner | Concrete VC |
Steven Zijlstra | Product Marketing Manager | One Click LCA Ltd |
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