From Policy to Delivery – How Local Authorities Can Achieve Net Zero Carbon; Hosted by Wokingham Borough Council

Wokingham Borough Council – Tim Searle, Senior Construction Project Manager

Tim, a Chartered Building Surveyor, has over 30 years’ experience in the construction industry. Tim joined Wokingham Council in 2008 as a client project manager. He has been working on the Council’s varied education and corporate capital projects taking them from inception, through the design, procurement and construction phases and handover to the end user.

Wokingham Borough Council – Rhian Hayes, Category Manager, Economic Prosperity and Place

Rhian has 10 years’ experience of developing and implementing key sustainability strategies for Wokingham Borough Council.   Currently managing the team responsible for developing Wokingham Borough`s Climate Emergency Action Plan, she is passionate about delivering a sustainable, low carbon future for residents

Wokingham Borough Council – Andy Glencross, Assistant Director, Highways & Transport & Green Infrastructure

Andy has worked in the Council’s Countryside Service in a number of roles since 1993 and has been instrumental in recent years developing a commercial approach to the provision of countryside recreation opportunities within the Borough and to the delivery of new green infrastructure facilities that address the needs of recent large scale housing growth in the Borough.

Wokingham Borough Council – Gregor Murray, Executive Member for Resident Services, Communications and Emissions and Chair of Climate Emergency Working Group

After being appointed to the council’s executive committee, Gregor formalised the council’s commitment to the climate change agenda by pushing the council to declare a climate emergency with the ambitious goal of reducing the borough’s carbon footprint to net carbon zero by 2030. Since the council’s declaration in July 2019, Gregor has been leading the council’s work on tackling climate change which includes a variety of exciting projects including a green bank, solar farms, the borough first net-zero carbon building and more.

Wokingham Borough Council – Diana Tovar, Climate Emergency Strategy Officer

Diana is Wokingham Borough Council’s first Climate Emergency Strategy and Commissioning Officer. She has worked in collaboration with businesses, residents, and schools to develop the Council’s response to the climate emergency.

She has worked in environmental management and sustainability for the last 15 years. Over her career, she has advised and supported various organisations to improve environmental performance.

Wokingham Borough Council – Ian Gough, Energy Manager

With over 20 years’ involvement in the Energy efficiency / Renewables arena, Ian has been responsible for the delivery of several major projects, reducing the Borough’s corporate Carbon Emissions reductions by well over 20% and 300 Tonnes in the last five years. These projects include: multiple energy efficiency measures/upgrades to properties; the largest Local Authority roof mounted solar PV placement scheme in the whole of the South East, a behavioural change programme with schools and large home insulation schemes in the residential sector.

Reds10 – Paul Ruddick, Chief Executive Officer

Paul has been involved in the construction industry for the past 20 years and has etched a reputation for himself and for his enterprise with his positive and proactive leadership. Reds10 are integral to the zero carbon agenda in Wokingham and are supporting the council with a host of offsite and modular solutions that fit within sustainability parameters.

RCDC – Vince Ruane, Director

Vince Ruane is the Director and founder of RCDC, a building services and sustainability consultancy. Vince founded RCDC in 2019 with the aim of delivering high quality, digitally enabled, sustainable design. In its first year, RCDC has grown to four staff, working across a number of sectors including commercial, education, public sector and advising a number of clients on how they can become Net Zero Carbon leaders within the Construction sector.

HLM Architects – Claire Wakelin, London Studio Director

Claire leads HLM Architect’s London studio and has over her career worked on a diverse portfolio of projects, to both improve and provide new facilities within the public sector. She is motivated to deliver projects of the highest quality design that seek to address the sustainability agenda, through working collaboratively with teams to develop and deliver innovative solutions.

HLM Architects – Alex Pullin, Architect

Alex Pullin is an architect with extensive experience designing for the education and leisure sectors within the UK and internationally. Alex is passionate about designing buildings that draw inspiration from their site specific contexts and believes that sustainability should be a key principle for all projects. Alex is the lead architect for the new Dinton Activity Centre building.

Built Environment Networking – Fahmida Nisa, Host & Event Manager

Nisa is a research, marketing and content specialist at Built Environment Networking. She will be hosting a number of the sessions throughout the day, running the day’s proceedings and managing the interaction between our virtual delegates and the speakers.