Nick Corker

Principal--Communautés durables
Building Research Establishment
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Nicholas R. Corker Principal Consultant -- Sustainable Communities Team, Centre for Sustainable Development Building Research Establishment Watford, United Kingdom Nick has over twenty years experience in the private, public and voluntary sectors. As a sustainable development professional he has a leaning towards ecology particularly that of systems. He is interested in the way settlements work. As a member of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings he has an active interest in vernacular architecture, particularly farmsteads and mills. He is currently working on a BRE Trust project exploring the characteristics of sustainable communities. He has wide experience of participatory planning, contributing to design panels, design coding and negotiation. Since joining BRE he has been proactive in sustainable communities research and practice. Leading on ecology for the BREEAM developments tool, managing the Department of Food and Rural Affairs, Living in Flood Risk Environments project. He has contributed to a range of Enquiry by Designs for the Prince's Foundation, (Walton on the Naze, Ballater and Ellon). He is also BRE's co-ordinator for the Prince's Foundation demonstration house. For five years he worked in local government, latterly as a Natural Environment Team Leader managing biodiversity, landscape architecture and environmental impact assessment for a County Council. Work included developing Chester Heritage Farm, (an historic Roman and medieval landscape), identifying sustainable directions of growth utilizing environmental appraisal techniques, reviewing environmental impact assessment and contributing to supplementary planning guidance. Prior to this he was a Borough Council's Sustainable Development Co-ordinator responsibilities included: Upton, ( a sustainable urban extension ), Farmer's Markets and the Upper Nene Valley Country Park. Planning work included Sustainability Appraisal of Local Development Frameworks, reviewing environmental impact assessments, writing the council's sustainable development strategy and devising an urban forest strategy. Experience of the design charrette at Upton, Northampton and East Kettering. Ten years were spent working in Agricultural Colleges teaching and researching sustainable land use, developing curriculum, leading academic staff, managing a Sustainable Farm Project and undertaking extension work. Early experience was spent leading conservation teams for the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers and running a rural practical conservation business in North Wales, and is a qualified drystone waller and forestry worker. (2008) Répertoire des membres  Arrow

Biographie : Nicholas R. Corker Principal Consultant -- Sustainable Communities Team, Centre for Sustainable Development Building Research Establishment Watford, United Kingdom Nick has over twenty years experience in the private, public and voluntary sectors. As a sustainable development professional he has a leaning towards ecology particularly that of systems. He is interested in the way settlements work. As a member of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings he has an active interest in vernacular architecture, particularly farmsteads and mills. He is currently working on a BRE Trust project exploring the characteristics of sustainable communities. He has wide experience of participatory planning, contributing to design panels, design coding and negotiation. Since joining BRE he has been proactive in sustainable communities research and practice. Leading on ecology for the BREEAM developments tool, managing the Department of Food and Rural Affairs, Living in Flood Risk Environments project. He has contributed to a range of Enquiry by Designs for the Prince's Foundation, (Walton on the Naze, Ballater and Ellon). He is also BRE's co-ordinator for the Prince's Foundation demonstration house. For five years he worked in local government, latterly as a Natural Environment Team Leader managing biodiversity, landscape architecture and environmental impact assessment for a County Council. Work included developing Chester Heritage Farm, (an historic Roman and medieval landscape), identifying sustainable directions of growth utilizing environmental appraisal techniques, reviewing environmental impact assessment and contributing to supplementary planning guidance. Prior to this he was a Borough Council's Sustainable Development Co-ordinator responsibilities included: Upton, ( a sustainable urban extension ), Farmer's Markets and the Upper Nene Valley Country Park. Planning work included Sustainability Appraisal of Local Development Frameworks, reviewing environmental impact assessments, writing the council's sustainable development strategy and devising an urban forest strategy. Experience of the design charrette at Upton, Northampton and East Kettering. Ten years were spent working in Agricultural Colleges teaching and researching sustainable land use, developing curriculum, leading academic staff, managing a Sustainable Farm Project and undertaking extension work. Early experience was spent leading conservation teams for the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers and running a rural practical conservation business in North Wales, and is a qualified drystone waller and forestry worker. (2008)

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