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Joining in 2016, Lee leads our Global Knowledge and Operations for the Built Environments group.

In his role, Lee supports the advancement of the disciplines six strategic focus groups on: health, wellbeing and productivity, building performance, smart buildings, digital design, design for manufacture, and BIM for efficient production. He represents Buro Happold on the Building Services Engineers Declare Climate & Biodiversity Emergency group and in 2021 he was appointed UK Commercial workplace and workspace sector leader.

He is now close to completing his third decade of experience in the engineering consultancy professional services industry and regularly leads engineering teams on both public and private sector projects. In these roles has commissioned engineering technical solutions to deliver low and zero carbon design approaches, aligning engineering with leading environmental assessments, with the application of building physics analysis. Throughout his career, he has been keen to promote the utilisation of low energy design with renewable technologies, and beyond minimum requirements of environmental assessments

He has a particular focus on the efficiency of the design process taking into account many discipline specialisms, and emerging technologies that are approaching mainstream use. Some of his engineering passions include efficient building design, visual communication including sketching, technology assessment analysis and system integration.

Lee graduated in Building Services & Energy Engineering from the London South Bank University in 2001. He is also a member of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers and the Energy Institute. In 2014, he was part of the government Zero Carbon Hub Performance Gap team, which looked into the challenges closing the gap between designed and as built performance.