Meet the Exemplar Sustainable Buildings Awards judges!

Emma Osmundsen

 Ealing Council + Passivhaus Trust Chair

Emma is passionate about transforming the lives of others through exemplar development. Delivering homes and buildings that enhance the wellbeing of their occupants, that contribute towards the preservation of our planet and generate wealth for all.

Emma develops with integrity to Triple Bottom Line principles, delivering homes and buildings that lift the performance credentials of development in the UK for generations to come.

Emma is also a UK champion of high performance Passivhaus and low carbon buildings with a global reputation.

As a Chartered Surveyor with over 25 years of professional experience, Emma specialises in the development and delivery of low energy, healthy and climate resilient homes and buildings.

Lynne Sullivan

LSA Studio

Lynne qualified in 1981 and since then, a consistent theme in her work has been built environment sustainability, through the buildings and places she has designed and delivered, and through research and advisory activities.

Lynne was Chair of the RIBA’s Sustainable Futures Committee and the RIBA’s Climate Change Ambassador 2015-2017, including attending COP21 in Paris. Lynne is now a Visiting Professor and design consultant, including as a Design Advisor for RIBA Competitions and a Design Council expert, and sits on local and national design commissions and review panels.

Lynne authored and chaired policy review and research projects for UK governments and others, and is a Board member of the Passivhaus Trust and the CLC’s Green Construction Board, and Chair of the Good Homes Alliance.

Nick Grant

Elemental Solutions

Nick Grant is a freelance energy consultant, Principal at Elemental Solutions and building consultant with a lifelong passion for doing more with less.

Nick is a theorist but also a practical engineer and self-builder and his interest in closing the performance gap led him to Passivhaus.  He is Technical Director of the Passivhaus Trust and co-author with Jon Broome of ’The Good Building Book’ to be published in autumn 2025

George Martin

SDF Chair + Associate BPN

George is Professor of Low Impact and Sustainable Buildings and the External Affairs Director at the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Building at Coventry University. Until 2012 George was Head of Sustainability with Willmott Dixon Construction’s Re-Thinking Business Unit, an initiative aiming to deliver sustainable buildings for all sectors. George is also an Associate of the UK’s leading sustainable development charity Forum for the Future. He has previously been a Non-Executive Director of The Academy for Sustainable Communities, a member of both the Sustainability Forum and the Sustainable Procurement Task Force and an Interim Board member of the UK Green Building Council.

Prior to these appointments, George was Director of Sustainability at BRE where he worked closely with Government on their policy for sustainable housing; worked with Jonathan Porritt at Forum for the Future, where George became an advocate for pioneering sustainability work with the corporate sector; and at Tarmac where he was Director of Environment for Tarmac Construction Services (now Carillion) and Managing Director of Stanger Science and Environment.

Mark Lynn

Eden Renewable Innovations + ASBP Chair

Mark Lynn is Managing Director of sustainable insulation firm Eden Renewable Innovations Ltd and is also Chair of the Alliance for Sustainable Building Products.  Mark has two decades experience in the field of natural fibre insulation and nearly 30 years in natural building materials having spent the earlier years of his career in timber preservation.  With a background in science and business Mark is an ardent believer that healthy & sustainable building is achievable at scale and takes a particular interest in building physics and the chemistry of building materials.

Mark writes regularly and was the expert Insulation contributor to the RIBA publication ‘Materials an Environmental Primer’ published in 2024.  Mark is an advocate for transparency in the built environment and has experience of the EPD process from a manufacturer’s perspective having overseen the production of verified EPD’s for core products within his business.

Seb Laan Lomas

 Architype

Seb joined Architype in 2021 and is an expert in sustainable design and policy, contributing to industry initiatives to decarbonise construction. Seb is involved in various practice research initiatives on post occupancy evaluation, embodied carbon, policy and structural timber, and is a member of Architype’s climate action team. He has also worked with the City of Edinburgh Council on their EnerPHit-informed retrofit plan to decarbonize their portfolio of existing buildings.

Seb’s focus on environmental design began at the University of Cambridge, researching UK retrofit solutions. This led to a formative period studying at the Centre for Alternative Technology, followed by a post graduate degree at the University of Westminster, where he qualified as an architect. Seb is also a Certified Passivhaus Designer.

Seb is extensively involved in industry-wide networks and has been a coordinator for the Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) since 2019, co-authoring a report on decarbonising construction, developing the network’s strategic direction, and coordinating multiple national campaigns around legislation.

Dr Jane Anderson

 ConstructionLCA

Dr Jane Anderson is the Director of ConstructionLCA and Board Member for the ASBP.  Jane has over 25 years experience of using Life Cycle Assessment within the construction sector, including producing and verifying Environmental Product Declarations (EPD) for a very wide range of construction products.

Janes has also written guidance on materials and LCA, such as the BRE Green Guides to Specification and the EEB guides, and on EPD and embodied carbon for the Construction Products Association, Timber Development UK and ASBP.

Jane co-authored the RICS Professional Standard on Whole Life Carbon for the Built Environment and has provided training modules for the Supply Chain School, CIBSE and ECO Platform.  In addition, Jane sits on the Technical Steering Group of the UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard and represents the UK on European and International Standards development committees relating to EPD and Building LCA.