New line-up for UK Green Construction Board

The refreshed Green Construction Board recently held a meeting chaired by Mike Putnam, CEO of Skanska UK. He said: “I am looking forward to continuing in the role as the Chair of the Green Construction Board and to working with a wide selection of industry leaders to deliver on our ambitious and challenging priorities. There is a clear need for leadership and action from the industry if we are to deliver a low carbon future and I believe we are well placed to do this.”
The industry-led GBC GCB is the sustainability workstream of the Construction Leadership Council and its role is: ‘To provide leadership and action to enable the whole value chain (clients, contractors, product manufacturers, suppliers and others) to become more environmentally sustainable, more productive and better placed to exploit the growing global market.’
The meeting focused on how the GCB will deliver on its priorities:
- Championing, leading and supporting action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from infrastructure, domestic (housing) and non-domestic built environment sectors, in line with the pathway outlined in the Low Carbon Routemap (reductions of greenhouse gases by 50% by 2025 and 80% by 2050) and report on progress.
- Supporting the construction sector to move towards a circular economy business model to improve resource efficiency and productivity.
Commenting on the new line-up, Skills Minister and Co-Chair of the Construction Leadership Council, Nick Boles said: “The new Green Construction Board members bring together some of the best expertise in industry. The refreshed Board will build on the work of the new Construction Leadership Council, delivering its sustainability agenda to help the UK achieve a more low carbon built environment.”
The members of the Green Construction Board are:
George Adams - Director for UK Energy & Engineering, Spie
Mark Bew - Chair of the UK BIM Task Group
Tim Chapman - Director / Leader for Infrastructure London Group, Arup
Louise Clarke - Group Sustainability Manager for Berkeley Group and Chair of CIC 2050 Group
Alan Couzens - Director, Infrastructure UK, HMT
Munish Datta - Head of Facilities Management and Plan A, M&S
Louise Ellison - Head of Sustainability, Hammersons
David Hancock - Head of Construction, Cabinet Office
Julie Hirigoyen - Chief Executive of the UK Green Building Council
Peter Hunt - Chief Operating Officer for the Lighting Industry Association Chief Executive Lumicom Ltd and Vice President of Lighting
Rob Lambe - Managing Director, Willmott Dixon Energy Services
Chris Newsome - Director of Asset Management, Anglian Water
Rob Pearce - Consultant to Haskoll Architects & Designers
David Purdy - Director for Energy Efficiency Deployment Office, DECC
Mike Putnam - President and CEO of Skanska UK
Peter Schofield - Director-General for Neighbourhoods, DCLG
John Sinfield - Managing Director for Knauf Insulation Northern European and Chairman of the Construction Products Association
Lynne Sullivan - Co-founding partner, SustainableBYdesign
Robin Webb - Deputy Director, Retail, Construction & Rail, BIS
Peter Williams - Technical Director, European Hub, Laing O’Rourke
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