Andrea is an architectural designer with over 15 years' experience, specialising in energy and carbon reduction to lower the environmental impact of buildings and large portfolios. She has worked internationally, delivering low-carbon and energy-efficient buildings through sustainable strategy and design.

Her expertise includes net zero carbon design, net ero pathways, whole life carbon analysis, sustainable retrofit, and the development of practical guidance on low energy, Passivhaus, and broader sustainability practices. She has applied her expertise to leading projects that translate complex topics into actionable strategies and has co-authored publications on minimum energy standards for heritage properties, reflecting her practical and research-based approach to low-carbon development.

Key areas of expertise include:

• Helping organisations and teams to understand and act on net zero carbon goals.
• Designing and implementing bespoke organisational sustainability strategies to reduce carbon emissions across the building lifecycle, including both operational and embodied carbon.
• Calculating whole-life carbon emissions and finding the most effective ways to reduce them.
• Developing sustainability approaches for multi-use developments, including circular economy principles, carbon reporting and sustainability frameworks.
• Understanding how people experience and use buildings to inform future designs.
• Translating complex sustainability topics ideas into practical guidance and tools for projects, organisations and communities.
  
  

Throughout her career, Andrea has shown an ability to take client needs and turn them into practical, deliverable solutions, while working effectively with teams from different disciplines to make sure sustainability goals are met alongside wider project teams.