Seb Laan Lomas

Associate · Architype and Perform+ · company speakers →

<p>Seb is an Associate at Architype Architects and leads its consultancy arm, Perform+, holding a passion to urgently decarbonise the built environment, prioritising bio-based materials for healthy and inspiring buildings that perform for the planet and for people. </p> <p>Most recently, he led an open-source publication titled Safe Schools for the Future which combines real-world data from 17 built timber-frame schools with progressive fire research to support more UK timber in UK construction.</p> <p>He also contributes to various industry groups including the England Government’s Inter-departmental Timber in Construction working group, is a Board member to the Alliance for Sustainable Building Products, and the Timber Development UK’s sustainability committee and carbon sub-committee. He has contributed to peer-reviewed industry reports and publications including those on the impacts of measuring and reducing embodied carbon in construction. </p> <p>Currently, he is self-building his bio-based passivhaus home with his partner Janna in Herefordshire which is an ode to local and natural materials including hemp insulation, garden-clay plaster, straw from the neighbouring farm, and local circular economy successes including windows.</p> <p>Seb is qualified as an architect, a Certified Passivhaus Designer, and studied at the University of Cambridge, the Centre for Alternative Technology, and University of Westminster.</p>

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