Sal Wilson

Sal received her M Arch from Yale School of Architecutre, and worked at various architecture practices in both New York and London before joining the environmental design team at Atelier Ten in order to explore sustainable design in greater depth. While at Atelier Ten she learned a huge amount about designing for energy efficiency using good passive design strategies as well as active renewable ones. She developed a practice approach to designing for occupant health and wellbeing that integrated the mechanical system requirements with the new architectural scope. And she was part of the team undertaking early life cycle carbon analysis as it started to develop within the industry. She is certified as both a WELL AP and a BREEAM AP.

Sal is now a technical design tutor at both the AA and the Bartlett UCL, where her focus is on supporting students to develop an understanding of the wide range of sustainability strategies and approaches available to architects. She is also founding director of a Hackney based retrofit community action group, working to support, enable and demystify retrofit on a community level. She has spoken on panels in Glasgow and Birmingham and is putting together a retrofit workshop for a design unit at Cambridge University. She is also a contributor to the LETI Climate Emergency Retrofit Guide.