Judit Kimpian
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Dr Judit Kimpian was Director of Sustainable Architecture & Research at AHR. With a background in design and virtual information modelling, she lead collaborative research projects including the RIBA|CIBSE platform CarbonBuzz as well as building performance evaluations revealing the scale and causes of the gap between the expected and achieved energy performance of buildings. Judit chairs the Architects Council of Europe's Sustainability Work Group and is a regular speaker at national and international conferences.
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Hattie Hartman
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Hattie Hartman is sustainability editor at The Architects’ Journal, London and is responsible for the AJ’s coverage of sustainable design and building, in print and online . Her AJ campaign Bridge the Gap in 2013 focused industry attention on the performance gap. Hattie is the author of London 2012: Sustainable Design (John Wiley & Sons, 2012). She also lectures widely on mainstreaming green design, sits on various juries and writes for journals, including Architectural Record and AD. She is the UK ambassador for the LafargeHolcim Awards for Sustainable Construction and was guest-editor for an issue of AD entitled Brazil: Restructuring the Urban (2016).
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Sofie Pelsmakers
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Sofie is a chartered architect and environmental designer with more than a decade of hands-on experience designing, building and teaching sustainable architecture. She brings experience from Denmark where she was Assistant Professor in Sustainable Architecture, and at the Sheffield School of Architecture prior to this, where she co-led an MSc in sustainable architecture. Sofie was also part-time Head of Research at ECD Architects and at present she is Assistant Professor (tenure track) in Sustainable Architecture and Sustainable Housing Design at Tampere University in Finland and co-founder of Architecture for Change, a not-for-profit environmental building organisation. She finished her doctoral research in building energy demand reduction at the UCL Energy Institute at the Bartlett. She is author of ‘The Environmental Design Pocketbook’, which synthesises her practical and academic expertise to support the building industry towards a significant change in its design and building practices. It received commendation for the RIBA’s 2012 President's Awards for Outstanding Practice Based Research. Together with Nick Newman, Sofie also guest edited the RIBA Design Studio Vol. 1: Everything Needs to Change: Architecture and the Climate Emergency.
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