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Cersaie 2023: Conferences and Seminars
Platform Café: "Reducing carbon, improving society"
MON 25 September - 3.00 p.m.
Press Cafés - Mall 29-30
HawkinsBrown Head of Sustainability Louisa Bowles charts the establishment of her dedicated team and the evolution of an evidence-based design approach which ensures buildings enhance the lives of future generations. Case studies illustrate how embodied carbon data and whole life carbon data and choosing the right materials for the purpose can make architecture richer and lower carbon.
Simona Finessi talks to Shikha Bharwdaj
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Louisa Bowles
Lead Sustainability Designer at HawkinsBrown
Shikha Bhardwaj is a Lead Sustainability Designer at Hawkins\Brown. In her 10 years of experience, she has worked on many international projects with leading architectural practices pushing for bioclimatic design as first approach. She has played a key role in setting holistic sustainability narratives and embedding environmental design principles on the macro-to-micro scale.
At H\B she is part of the dedicated team of sustainability specialists and uses her experience and passion to lead sustainability visioning on various masterplans to ensure sustainability is deeply rooted in the overall thinking from the beginning. She actively participates in roundtable discussions and sharing her knowledge with universities as a guest speaker. She won a CIBSE Building Simulation Group Award in 2018 for her technical knowledge and ability to deal with computer simulations effectively and creatively
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