Associate Director Sustainability & Innovation at Cundall
Dr Olli Jones leads Sustainability & Innovation at international multidisciplinary engineering consultancy Cundall. Olli is part of a world leading, international network of sustainability thought leaders, innovators and disruptors who are working to help realise a more sustainable future. Helping to develop, scale and promote the next generation of sustainable standards and guidance, technologies, services and materials.Olli has been recognised as one of the construction sectors top 500 influencers in 2019 and as one of the UK's top 100 sustainable design visionaries in 2021 by the UK Design Council. He works with government policy makers, NGO's and organisations to develop sustainability strategies as a trusted advisor. He is an active ambassador for net zero futures, healthy buildings and research + innovation in our sector speaking regularly at international conferences and events.
His expertise is in delivering strategies and policies focussed on decarbonising and transforming our cities with a focus on resilience, adaptation, and regeneration. All of this is driven through innovative sustainable materials, technologies, and policy. Olli is driven by a healthy planet, healthy people philosophy – an enduring belief that regenerative practices will create healthier people, societies, environments, and economies.
Olli continues to lecture at universities where he shares his expertise with their architecture, engineering and environment departments. His passion for sustainability in the built environment has led him to co-host Futurebuild’s FutureX podcast, which focuses on building a global community of innovators and thought leaders to bring new green technologies, materials, and processes to market.