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Peter Head

Prof Peter Head CBE FREng FRSA ... Founder & Chief Executive Officer ... The Ecological Sequestration Trust

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Peter Burgess

Prof Peter Head CBE FREng FRSA
Founder & Chief Executive Officer ... The Ecological Sequestration Trust

Peter is a champion of sustainable development. He established the Ecological Sequestration Trust in 2011. He advocates that changing the way we invest public and private money in the built environment could be made very much more effective if the public and private sectors adopt sustainable development principles.

Peter is a civil and structural engineer who has become a recognised world leader in major bridges (he received an OBE for successfully delivering the Second Severn Crossing as Government Agent), advanced composite technology and now in sustainable development in cities and regions. He has won many awards for his work including the Award of Merit of IABSE, the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Silver Medal and the Prince Philip Award for Polymers in the Service of Mankind.

He joined Arup in 2004 to create and lead their planning and integrated urbanism team which by 2011 had doubled in size. He directed work on the Dongtan Eco City Planning project which was voted by Chinese developers in 2005 as the most influential development project in China.

In July 2008 he was awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering at Bristol University, where he is a visiting Professor in Sustainable Systems Engineering.

In May 2011 he was appointed as a visiting professor in eco-cities at Westminster University. In 2009 he was awarded the Sir Frank Whittle medal of the Royal Academy of Engineering for a lifetime contribution to the well-being of the nation through environmental innovation.

In 2008 he was named by the Guardian Newspaper as one of 50 people that could ‘save the planet’.

He was cited by Time magazine in 2008 as one of 30 global eco-heroes and has been one of CNN’s Principle Voices.

In 2011 he was awarded the CBE in the New Year’s Honours List for services to Civil Engineering and the Environment

the ecological sequestration trust ... knowledge exchange

Bringing together a wide range of disciplines, professions and expertise is core to the Trust’s mission. The Knowledge Exchange is the forum aims to facilitate this. Members can ‘post’ material, including video, develop discussions, share experience, publicise events and build our collective knowledge through the following Knowledge Pools.

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Email Address * peterbnyc@gmail.com

First Name * Peter

Last Name * Burgess

Country * United States

Organisation * TrueValueMetrics.org

Position: Founder CEO

Knowledge Pools:

Knowledge Pool of Primary Interest: Economics Finance & Investment

Knowledge Pools of Further Interest

• Community Culture & Society

• Economics Finance & Investment

• Hydrocarbon Energy Systems & Carbon Management

• Communication Education & Message Building

• Health Wellbeing & International Development

• Renewable Energy Systems

• Open Data Knowledge Management Remote Sensing & Control

• Urban Design Architecture & Advanced Building Technologies

• Bio-Systems

• Chemical & Process Engineering

• Ecology & Eco-systems

• Agriculture Forestry & Water Systems

• Transport Systems & Technology

• Sustainable Design & Manufacturing

• Waste as a Resource

• Climate Change & Resilience

• Systems Modelling Visualisation & Simulation

• Governance