Team Profile 3 - Superstar engineer, designer and project manager

This is Ed. Ed is responsible for much of the detailed design and drawings, with which the guys on site put the house together; not forgetting a whole lot of other work, such as installing all of the ductwork and generally holding everything together. On a project like this the devil is in the detail, so it’s just as well Ed was there with his engineering skills to ensure that every airtightness detail, every thermal bridge, every services connection was implemented just right.

As well as the design, Ed spent almost every day on site during the build to keep an eye on the actual installation of his drawings and to troubleshoot the inevitable mistakes and mis-understandings. This hands-on work was a far cry from the dreamy spires of Cambridge - from where Ed graduated with an embarrassingly good engineering degree (he’s surprisingly good company despite this) - but has turned him into that very rare breed, a practical brainbox.

Ed also worked intensively on our sister project - another passivhaus retrofit up the road in Holland Park - where he successfully managed timetable, contractor, public relations duties and client needs. He was able to take learning from our project and apply it to the work going on there, which conveniently for them was always a couple of months behind. How I wish it had been the other way round!

Ed is now busy bringing his newfound skills to bear on multiple retrofit and newbuild passivhaus and low energy projects around the UK.