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Team Profile 1 – The Master Builder, Philip Proffit This blog is hopefully going to show people that renovating their house to an extremely low energy standard is perfectly achievable, and in the context of a general renovation, eminently cost-effective. Nonetheless, it would be wrong to pretend that the transformation to a low energy society will be anything other than an enormous feat of civil engineering. In addition to the behavioural and psychological challenge ahead, we are facing a country-wide infrastructure project equivalent to the building of the Pyramids, the Great Wall of China and the Panama Canal rolled into one (or something pretty substantial anyway). This project will be driven forward by many groups, but one in particular shall grow in importance as we progress – technicians. Where better to start our team profile series therefore than with our chief technical officer? Part Master Builder, part enlightened soul, part energy obsessive and part inventor, Philip Proffit is responsible for the vast majority of the design thinking on this project. Philip’s vision is to deploy multi-skilled teams as a central part of his strategy for managing the new skillsets needed for low carbon buildings. By running his sites with “Skills Matrix Managers”, he successfully balances the technical challenges (such as closing thermal bridges and achieving airtightness) with the usual onsite tasks of plumbing and electrics. The end result is a beautiful living space that also happens to be extremely comfortable and almost perfectly thermally efficient. Philip began his life as a mechanical engineering Graduate Trainee with the Metal Box Limited. He was then a senior director running global polymer development and technical services for Neste in Belgium. Philip then decided to strike out on his own. He spent 12 years running International conferences and consulting on the future of retail supply chains. Finally, he realised what he enjoyed doing most was building, his lifelong hobby; so he started his own building business. 5 years and many projects later, Philip has now become one of the leading practitioners of cutting-edge, low carbon building techniques. We’re all very lucky to have innovators like Philip to help us meet the challenge ahead.

Team Profile 1 – The Master Builder, Philip Proffit

This blog is hopefully going to show people that renovating their house to an extremely low energy standard is perfectly achievable, and in the context of a general renovation, eminently cost-effective. Nonetheless, it would be wrong to pretend that the transformation to a low energy society will be anything other than an enormous feat of civil engineering.

In addition to the behavioural and psychological challenge ahead, we are facing a country-wide infrastructure project equivalent to the building of the Pyramids, the Great Wall of China and the Panama Canal rolled into one (or something pretty substantial anyway). This project will be driven forward by many groups, but one in particular shall grow in importance as we progress – technicians.

Where better to start our team profile series therefore than with our chief technical officer? Part Master Builder, part enlightened soul, part energy obsessive and part inventor, Philip Proffit is responsible for the vast majority of the design thinking on this project.

Philip’s vision is to deploy multi-skilled teams as a central part of his strategy for managing the new skillsets needed for low carbon buildings. By running his sites with “Skills Matrix Managers”, he successfully balances the technical challenges (such as closing thermal bridges and achieving airtightness) with the usual onsite tasks of plumbing and electrics. The end result is a beautiful living space that also happens to be extremely comfortable and almost perfectly thermally efficient.

Philip began his life as a mechanical engineering Graduate Trainee with the Metal Box Limited. He was then a senior director running global polymer development and technical services for Neste in Belgium. Philip then decided to strike out on his own. He spent 12 years running International conferences and consulting on the future of retail supply chains. Finally, he realised what he enjoyed doing most was building, his lifelong hobby; so he started his own building business. 5 years and many projects later, Philip has now become one of the leading practitioners of cutting-edge, low carbon building techniques.

We’re all very lucky to have innovators like Philip to help us meet the challenge ahead.

Posted 2 years ago