Richard Lupo, Sustainability Consultant

Richard is a Chartered Environmentalist and Full Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (IEMA). At Sustainable Homes he has carried out over 30 full sustainability assessments of social landlords using the SHIFT format. He has also facilitated the design of housing stock energy efficiency improvement strategies using the CROHM format. Other consultancy work includes calculating and making recommendations for improvement of office carbon emissions and business fleet emissions. In addition, he is an experienced Code for Sustainable Homes assessor.

Richard has trained and qualified over 300 Code for Sustainable Homes assessors as well as trained building professionals on Housing Quality Indicators and sustainable refurbishment.

At Imperial College London Richard developed a waste silt recycling process, gained an MSc in Environmental Engineering and studied the impact of new regulations on hazardous waste disposal.

Richard is a Sustainability Consultant at Sustainable Homes.  He has trained and qualified hundreds of building professionals in sustainable housing standards including sustainable maintenance.  He also runs the sustainability benchmarking survey, SHIFT, which shares best practice maintenance amongst social landlords.  In addition, he has developed energy and sustainability strategies for landlords as well as climate change risk assessments.