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Head of Sustainable Materials
Useful Simple Trust
Will Arnold is an award-winning engineer and environmentalist, and Head of Sustainable Materials for the Useful Simple Trust: a group of pioneering designers and consultants striving to regenerate our built and natural environment. His career has taken him around the world, engineering high-profile buildings across four continents, and pushing the boundaries of design and technology. Today, he is best known for advising designers, academics, global institutions and policymakers; challenging them to confront the construction industry’s role in the climate crisis and reduce the environmental impact of the sector. He is the lead author of the Part Z proposal to regulate embodied carbon in the UK, and has led the embodied carbon aspects of UK Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard since the project’s inception. Will is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Bath where he teaches and researches regenerative design. Through his writing and public speaking, Will brings clarity, urgency, and optimism to one of the greatest challenges of our time.