YEPG Team

Name: Nathan Jones, Joint Chair
General: Building Services Engineer at Kier Construction
Like: Passive design, Collaboration, Innovation, Intellect and Good food
Dislike: Wastefulness, Complacency, "Because that’s how we’ve always done it" and rush hour




Name: Rossella Perniola, Joint Chair and Webmaster
General: Building Services Engineer at Scotch Partners 
Like: R³ (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) and E³ (Energy, Environment, Economy)
Dislike: Energy waste, Pollution and Horror movies





Name: Konstantinos Tachtatzis, Technical Officer
General: Mechanical Engineer at GBE
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Name: Oliver Lockhart, Secretary
General: Senior Performance Engineer at Hoare Lea
Like: Getting to the bottom of whybuildings underperform, Data & Cooking
Dislike: The tube during rush hour





Name: Saadia Ansari, Regional Officer, South-West
General: Sustainability Consultant at Verco
Like: Buildings designed for occupants, Indoor plants, Cats
Dislike: Bad metering, Cauliflower






Name: Hua Zhong, Regional Officer
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Name: Alan Belton, Joint Events Lead
General: Specification Engineer at Nuaire
Like: Fans of course. Outside the box thinking and Family weekends including the dog.
Dislike: "We have always done it this way" mentality.





Name: Aadam Saheed, Events Lead
General: Aspiring Mechanical Engineer
Like: Sustainable development goals, Coffee
Dislike: Inaction towards climate change

Name: Tom Burton, Technical Officer
General: Graduate Engineer at Fairheat
Like: Low carbon heating, Efficient heat networks, Winter sports
Dislike: Open bypasses, Cycling boilers, Urban heat islands

Name: Ryan Harris, Technical Officer
General: Graduate Engineer at Fairheat
Like: Acceptance testing, Tight plant room control, Love island
Dislike: Residential overheating, Oversized plant room equipment, Not being on holiday

 

Name: Jennifer Elias, Liaison Officer
General: Senior Sustainability and Building Physics Engineer at Cundall
Like: Warm weather, the beach, low temperature VAV systems
Dislike: Overdesigned systems, skiing

Name: Nita Barnor, Social Media Lead
General: Building Services Engineer at XCO2
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Name: Farah Husayni, Committee Member
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Name: Konstantinos  Charalampidis, Committee Member
General: Electrical Engineer at Arup
Like: Daylighting, smart energy systems and renewable energy
Dislike: Energy inefficient buildings and feta cheese

Name: Maria Gkonou, Committee Member
General: Sustainability Manager at Redrow Homes
Like: Passive design, traditional architecture, sunshine, and chocolate
Dislike: Cities with limited green spaces, people who disrespect the environment and animals, earthquakes





Name: Angeliki Krania, Committee Member
General: Graduate Analyst at Cundall
Like: Innovative yet holistic solutions, human-centric design, traveling and cooked food.
Dislike: Redundant tasks, unnecessary meetings and buzzwords.






Name: Alexandra Kalymniou, Committee Member
General: Graduate Environmental Services Engineer at Arup
Like: Sustainable architecture, Smart cities, Public and Street art
Dislike: Overbuilt Cities, Coriander


Name: Renata Molnarova, Committee Member
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Name: Nikos Goufas, Committee Member
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Name: Brogan Watkins, Committee Member
General: Mechanical Engineer at Hoare Lea
Like: Travelling, Playing football and Exporing energy efficient building technologies
Dislike: Meetings in stuffy rooms, Being copied into loads of emails and Bland food.