Craig White

Craig is a founding Director of White Design, ModCell and BaleHaus with 25 years’ experience in architectural practice in the UK and Europe and has been involved in low energy and sustainable design since the 1980s. Craig founded White Design in 1998 with fellow Director Linda Farrow. White Design’s founding principle is to help create beautiful, affordable places that enable our clients to live, work and learn more sustainably.

Craig is a Design Advice consultant with the Carbon Trust and works with dBERR on the Low Carbon Buildings Programme. Craig is also senior lecturer at the School of Architecture and Planning, at UWE, where he teaches Integrated Environmental Design and Construction. Craig is a board member of the Timber Research and Development Association, Re-thinking, Spike Island, Chair of Wood for Gold and is a Technology Strategy Board steering group member.

Craig has also had roles as visiting lecturer on low-energy and environmental design for the Civil Service College and at the LSE on their MSc programme in City Design & Social Science. Research work includes a MIST project assessing construction uses for waste produced by the stone industry on the island of Working with dBERR (formerly the DTi) the Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and Carbon Connections (HEFCE funded) we are two years into a £1m research programme to develop a system of prefabricated straw and hemp cladding panels and building types to deliver zero carbon footprint developments.

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Thursday 15 October 2009, 7.30pm BDP's offices, Brewhouse Yard, London EC1V 4LJ

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