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Professor Sandy Halliday<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>MPhil MCIBSE CEng FWES MCIBSE HonFRIAS HonFRIBA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Director, Gaia Group Ltd, Scotland<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sandy is a chartered engineer and internationally respected author, thought leader and communicator with extensive experience of trans-disciplinary working in the field of sustainable buildings and places. She has been a researcher and educator in built environment issues and a sustainability adviser to the private, public and third sector since 1986. \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Sandy\u2019s ability to bridge gaps between sustainable architecture and engineering is recognised by Honorary Fellowships of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA, 2020) and the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS, 2018) and Fellowship of the Women\u2019s Engineering Society. In 2018 she was voted one of the Top 50 Women Engineers working in Sustainability in the UK by the Women\u2019s Engineering Society (WES).<\/p>\n

Sandy\u2019s extensive research portfolio embraces the circular economy, building physics, energy systems, lighting & daylighting, solar air conditioning, innovative ventilation systems, low allergy housing, building cost, community engagement, indoor air quality for people with dementia, low impact materials, dynamic insulation, animal architecture, school design, urban ecology, building performance evaluation and the history of sustainable development ideas. Her experience in practice requires her to be at the forefront of understanding of contemporary issues and practice and informs her writing, teaching and capacity building. This expertise enables her to provide real time support for the design and procurement of numerous best-value, healthy, resource efficient buildings.<\/p>\n

Sandy has significant teaching experience. As Visiting Professor of Engineering Design for Sustainable Development at the University of Strathclyde (2003-2008) she developed her own interdisciplinary CPD programme in Sustainable Design for built environment professionals into an undergraduate course. This became the highly acclaimed international monograph Sustainable Construction, 2nd Edition<\/a>.<\/span> She delivers \u00a0a course at the University of Strathclyde on Sustainable Construction and until 2019 was a Visiting Lecturer on the Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development Post Graduate Programme, Oslo International Summer School.<\/p>\n

She has given evidence to the House of Lords on energy related issues and presented to the Scottish Parliament Cross Party Group on the Built Environment and to Scotland\u2019s Climate Assembly on issues such as the Circular Economy, embodied energy, Fabric First, environmental design, Urban Ecology, sustainable housing and placemaking. She conceived and authored the RIAS Environmental Statement<\/em> and conceived and developed the world-first RIAS Accreditation Scheme in Sustainable Design <\/em>and delivered a fifteen-part UK-wide training course in sustainable design to a multi-professional cross-section of the UK construction industry in 2001 to 2014.<\/p>\n

Sandy is \u00a0a member of Gaia International – a world-wide federation of architects, engineers and urban designers working in best practice sustainable design of the built environment; a Director and a past Chair of the Scottish Ecological Design Association – a built environment focussed charity; an active\u00a0 past board member of the Children\u2019s Parliament \u2013 a Scottish charity dedicated to the well-being of children;. a member of the Women\u2019s Engineering Society Climate Emergency Group; a Built Environment \u2013 Smarter Transformation (BE-ST) Innovation Champion.and a member of \u00a0the RIAS Working Group on Sustainability. She contributes a regularly thinkpiece to the RIAS quarterly magazine on sustainability.<\/p>\n

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