
Lynne Sullivan
Lynne Sullivan is an architect and founding Partner of Sustainable BY Design, an architecture and design practice, whose portfolio includes low-energy projects in a range of sectors. Lynne has been responsible for a number of exemplar projects which have won national design and housing design awards, and as associate director at ECD Architects she won the UK’s first government-sponsored Zero CO2 housing competition with co-author Nigel Craddock. She currently sits on regional and national design review panels and is an invited lecturer, judge and examiner in the UK and beyond. As a member of the UK’s Building Regulations Advisory Committee for 10 years, Lynne has led on energy efficiency (Part L) since 2008, and authors and chairs a number of research projects on aspects of sustainability in buildings, including Zero Carbon Hub’s TaskGroup report on Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation 2013. She recently reconvened as chair of the expert panel for the Scottish Government whose report “A Low Carbon Building Standards Strategy for Scotland” was published in 2007. She was awarded an OBE for services to architecture in 2011, and is a member of the government’s Green Construction Board.
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We need to safeguard air quality in our homes
The UK is falling behind its European counterparts in this vital area
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Why cutting operational carbon is the priority
Calculating embodied energy in buildings is neither straightforward nor ready to be applied
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The social value of good building
Can construction tap into new tax breaks by showing its wider benefits?
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The challenge of providing public open space
We know parks and trees in our cities are good for public health so how do we fund them?
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Architectural education ignores the challenge of our time
Too many architects assume their lack of energy performance knowledge will be ‘fixed’ by others
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Changing our culture for 'deep' retrofit
We need to substantially change the way we work to achieve the highest standards of energy efficiency and enjoy the benefits this would bring