Sustainable Design and Development


Paul Appleby provides strategic advice to design and masterplanning teams on the integrated sustainable design of buildings, based on the premises set out in his 2010 book covering:

• Sustainability and low carbon design strategy for developments and buildings

• Passive design measures for masterplans and buildings

• Low carbon technologies and renewables

• Land use, density, massing and microclimate

• Social and economic requirements for sustainable communities

• Policy, legislation and planning - history and requirements

• Sustainability and environmental impact assessment methodologies

• Sustainable construction and demolition

• Integrated sustainable transport planning

• Computer simulation of building environments

• Thermal comfort

• Air quality hygiene and ventilation

• Waste management and recycling

• Materials and pollution

• Water conservation

• Landscaping, ecology and flood risk

• Light and lighting

• Noise and vibration

• Security and future proofing

Paul Appleby has been involved in the sustainable design of buildings for much of his career including recent high profile projects such as the award-winning Great Glen House, the Strata tower and the proposed masterplan for the iconic and challenging Battersea Power Station site (see postings below).

E mail paul at paul.appleby7@btinternet.com if you want to get in touch














Sunday, 12 June 2011





The Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership (CPSL) has included my book Integrated Sustainable Design of Buildings as one of their 'Top 40 Sustainability Books of 2010'.

The list builds on their previous research which was published by Greenleaf in 2009 as The Top 50 Sustainability Books. The updated list appeared in their recent report A Journey of a Thousand Miles: The State of Sustainability Leadership, 2011, which highlights some of the most interesting practice and research in the sustainability field.

CPSL is a department of the University of Cambridge focused on working with business and government to build leaders’ capacity to meet the needs of society and address critical global challenges. They run a number of executive education programmes and also convene groups of business leaders to engage in the public policy process, for example through The Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change.

My book is the only one in the list that includes 'building' in its title, the others primarily cover economics, politics, business, CSR, climate change and philosophy. Authors that feature in the list include such luminaries as Al Gore, Prince Charles, Lord Stern, Sara Parkin, Fred Pearce, Bjorn Lomborg and Mike Berners-Lee. A copy of the CPSL report can be downloaded from http://www.cpsl.cam.ac.uk/Resources/State-of-Sustainability-Leadership.aspx
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