Global multidisciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold, has appointed Dan Phillips as its new sustainability director.

Dan joins from design and innovation consultancy SEA, which he founded in 1998. He authored the book 'The Ecofriendly Home', published by Harper Collins in 2000 and was previously a creative director at Battle McCarthy Consulting Engineers and Landscape Architects, as well as project engineer at Ove Arup and Partners.

Gavin Thompson, Buro Happold’s managing director, said: “With the vast majority of our projects being influenced by issues such as population growth, climate change and scarcity of resource, Dan will provide strategic leadership for the development of our skills and expertise in the field of sustainability as it continues to broaden and evolve.”

Dan is a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts and member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers.-TradeArabia News Service