Speakers

Lucy is a Chartered Senior Materials Engineer at Arup, currently based in Melbourne. She provides technical and strategic guidance on materials issues across the built environment to drive sustainable development and design in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment. Her materials advisory experience spans the United Kingdom, Australia, and international contexts. With a breadth of technical experience that includes product evaluation, materials selection and specification, durability planning, condition assessment, forensic analysis, and standards compliance review, she works across the whole life cycle of built environment assets. Increasingly, her work in materials selection, specification, and design prioritises ensuring that the impact of materials is considered not only from a whole life carbon perspective, but in terms of responsible and ethical sourcing, impact on nature, and enabling re-use and recovery.