Jo is an Accredited Conservation Architect with the RIBA. Jo’s twin passions of conservation and sustainability are shown in her work as well as memberships of the RIAS boards for both areas, as well as memberships of SEDA, SPAB and IHBC. Jo is currently the EAA President, a trustee of the RIAS, and Treasurer of the Edinburgh Building Retrofit & Improvement Collective. The Collective is a community support organisation to improve the relationship of people and their buildings in Edinburgh. She was responsible for the Edinburgh RIAS COP26 activities, including the steering group of SpACE – Space for Architecture Carbon and Environment. Jo is a tutor at the Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture (ESALA). Jo’s ability spans from masterplanning to detailing, social to commercial, and the global to the local. Full CV.
Aythan is a Chartered Building Surveyor focused on how a knowledge of Building Physics and its intersection with triple bottom line sustainability can positively impact wider society. Aythan is currently a member of the RICS Scotland Sustainability Group and Chair of the Edinburgh Building Retrofit & Improvement Collective. Aythan specialises in building pathology, condition surveys and analysis of building performance against the needs for triple bottom line outcomes from all built assets. This may take the form of maintenance planning, defects diagnosis and rectification, retrofit planning, material passports and pre-demolition audits. Aythan is also an experienced Project Manager, delivering rural diversification projects, large survey operations and complex contract management meeting a wide range of client and stakeholder aims including environmental and social outcomes. Full CV.
Wesley Lyster
Wesley brings a broad background to his role as Building Surveyor. Having initially worked as a mental health nurse he has a background in social issues and a natural urge to care for all sections of society. This care extends to buildings and their role in people’s wellbeing as well as that of the environment in which we live.
Wesley’s intrinsic empathy is coupled with a keen analytical mind and passion for detail leading to his first-class degree from Napier University. Since graduating Wesley has worked for several consultancies providing surveying, reporting, and statutory consent work on a wide range of buildings and client types. Wesley’s interests have led him to specialise in the overlap of building performance, heritage and social issues to provide the basis for triple-bottom-line holistic advice.