Speaking

Royal Academy Lecture 2023

Photo: Agnese Sanvito

Simon has spoken at numerous seminars, Zoom Conferences, International Conferences, COP 24, BCO and ULI conferences and many other events, including for Architects Declare, CIBSE, RICS, RIBA, ASBP, CarbonOxygen, BPF, London Climate Week, and many others:

  • Speaker: RIBA Built Environment Summit COP26 2021.

  • Speaker: Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) launch 2021.

  • Speaker: BCO ‘Net Zero’ Conference Manchester. 2021.

  • Keynote Speaker: Westminster Policy Forum - Retrofit 2021.

  • Speaker HomesUK - 2021.

  • Lecture Manchester Uni Architectural Students - 2021.

  • Keynote Speaker AJSummit 2021.

  • Speaker ACAN 2021.

  • Chair, International Panel for International Living Future Institute (ILFI) Net Zero Conference October 2020.

  • Keynote Speaker: RICS Conference ‘Carbon Accounting’ 2020

  • Speaker: RICS Midlands Conference 'Materials for Carbon Efficiency'. Sept 2020.

  • Speaker: G&T Mass Timber Panel Session Sept 2020.

  • Speaker: Henderson Cambridge Colloquium Sept 2020.

  • Architects Journal - What practical steps can architects take to reduce whole life carbon? (SS at 2.55mins)

  • Simon Sturgis giving evidence to GLA Environment Committee 2019 (Start at 12.30mins)

  • Bisnow Conference London 2019: Discussion on Built Environment with with Lord Deben, chair Committee on Climate Change 

  • Futurebuild 2019

  • Speaker at Global Alliance for Building and Construction; COP 24, Katowice, 2018

  • Keynote speaker: International Green Building Conference Singapore 2018

  • Speaker: Ecobuild 2018

  • Chair: Sustainable Estates Forum Conference June 2018

  • New London Architecture – London’s Housing Crisis 2018

  • World Architecture Festival, Berlin, 2017

  • Policy UK Conference on the Circular Economy 2017

  • PassivHaus Conference 2017

  • BCO Conference 2017

  • Ecobuild 2011 - 2017

  • International Living Future unConference, Portland, Oregon 2014

  • ULI Sustainability Conference Paris 2013

  • Regular Speaker at UKGBC Seminars

  • World Architecture Festival, Barcelona, 2009

Judging

  • WAF Sustainability Awards 2021

  • WAF Sustainability Awards 2019

  • AJ Architecture Awards 2019

  • RIBA Stirling Prize 2018 – Sustainability Advisor to Jury

  • AJ Architecture Awards 2018

  • RIBA Stirling Prize 2017 – Sustainability Advicor to Jury

  • AJ Retrofit Awards 2013, 2014, 2015

  • AJ100 Sustainable Practice of Year 2016, 2017