Hattie Emerson
Hattie has dedicated nearly 20 years to driving the sustainability agenda within the construction industry, working with principal contractors to integrate sustainable practices across all sectors.
Throughout her career, Hattie has led multi-disciplinary teams, linking carbon and commercial considerations to deliver innovative solutions. She combines her technical knowledge with a problem-solving approach to incorporate resource efficiency and circular economy innovations into construction processes. Her work spans a variety of initiatives, from promoting the reuse of structural steel to introducing material passporting and advocating for the use of natural and biobased materials.
As the Project Manager for the FIS Project Reuse, she is leading a cross-industry group to dive into the nuts and bolts of reuse. The project is a crowd-funded initiative getting hands-on experience of the transfer of products from one project to another with a change of ownership. All learnings and case studies are shared with the industry. She also works with the ACAN Circular Economy Task Group to share knowledge and effect change.