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Company Profile Feilden Clegg Bradley (FCB) Studios is an architectural design practice with an international reputation for design quality, pioneering environmental expertise and a progressive approach. FCB Studios was founded in 1978 with a specific ambition to produce environmentally and socially responsive design. This ethos has flourished to provide a holistic approach, at the forefront of low energy design, working with heritage and existing environments, to support the transition to net zero carbon. The Project The aim of the project is to consider the embodied carbon impact of heritage buildings in the UK and appreciate the carbon “locked” within existing buildings. The objectives are to: Create a new set of emissions factors for heritage buildings; Discover the total “locked in” carbon for typical UK heritage buildings; Develop a new early stage design tool for FCB Studios and wider industry; Help inform industry of the benefits of re-use and recycling of heritage buildings. Understanding the whole life carbon impact of heritage buildings is of great value to net zero carbon ambitions of 2050, as two thirds of the UK’s housing stock is at least half a century old. Rowena Creagh Rowena Creagh is a historic building conservationist, with a MA in Historic Building Conservation from the University of York. Rowena has worked as a Heritage and Planning Officer in Oxford and during her time there began to see the dichotomy of new build sustainable buildings replacing pre-existing structures. Her MA dissertation researched renewable energy and historic buildings and she believes that historic buildings have an important role to play in a truly low carbon society. Academic Supervisors Dr Stephen Finnegan Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios