Smith Mordak, Buro Happold

Director of Sustainability and Physics at Buro Happold, Smith is an architect-engineer-writer working across disciplines to realise a regenerative economy and built environment. They work with a broad range of built environment organisations from asset managers to international NGOs to develop and implement strategies for the transition to a fair and sustainable built environment.
Smith was lead author of ‘Built for the Environment’ a report to COP26 commissioned by the RIBA and Architects Declare and endorsed by over 300 built environment organisations from around the world.
They write regularly for the architectural press including the Architects’ Journal, Dezeen, Architectural Review, and RIBAJ where they had a column for five years. They have also written for newspapers including the Guardian and the Financial Times, and have appeared on a variety of podcasts, radio, and television including BBC News and BBC Radio 4.