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The full transcript of the AJ/Forticrete roundtable on specifying green design
THE PANEL
Andy Batterham, design and innovation manager, Ibstock Brick Limited
Rory Bergin, partner sustainable futures, HTA Design LLP
Fran Bradshaw, partner, Anne Thorne Architects
John Fifield, technical advisor, CRH Group
Chris Halligan, director, Stephen George & Partners
Sarah Lewis, associate architect, Barron and Smith Architects, NPS Group
Paul Martin, senior technical architect, Levitt Bernstein Associates
Sandy Patience, editor, GreenSpec
Guy Thompson, head of architecture, housing and sustainability, The Concrete Centre
Hattie Hartman: This is a subject close to my heart, and I'm delighted that all of you have been able to join us today because this topic gets a lot of airtime but doesn't often get a lot of depth. I hope today we can go a little deeper and pull out any trends or innovations you see happening in the industry. Let's start by going around the room with introductions and please put forward any particular angle on green specification that you would like to mention to get us started. I will save some time at the end to go around the table again so that each of you can put forward your top tips for architects on green specification - what architects should be thinking about as they specify.
Guy Thompson: Hi, I'm Guy Thompson and I'm head of architecture housing and sustainability at the Concrete Centre. We are a market development arm of the central marketing government arm of the concrete industry; we are architects and engineers, so we are there to provide data. Part of my role is the compilation of our annual performance reports, with sustainability metrics. I am an architect of nearly 40 years, 30 of which were in practise. Until about seven years ago I hadn't touched a specification for a long time. The last seven years I've been deeply involved in very nitty gritty stuff, which I thought I never would be.
Sarah Lewis: I'm Sarah Lewis, I'm an associate architect at Barron and Smith, which is part of the NPS Group. The NPS Group is a large group, and within our office we have a multi-disciplinary team with architects, structural engineers, ME consultants. Prior to joining Baron and Smith, I was in a much...