Lucy Andrews is now an award winning personal finance journalist who started her career as a reporter at Construction News.

During her time reporting on the built environment between 2016-2020, she covered issues from mental health and diversity to breaking news stories on proptech trends and developments in the North of England.

Adrian Barrick has been editorial director of the FT’s Specialist Media division in Europe since January 2023. His role is to help the editors of the FT’s 10 specialist brands in Europe to build loyal professional audiences by telling valuable stories you won’t read, see or hear anywhere else.

In a 37-year business media career, Adrian has been a reporter, editor, publisher, divisional CEO and - since 2012 - an editorial director for companies including UBM (now Informa), Haymarket, and Incisive Media. He has won a host of awards, including BSME editorial director of the year in 2021.

He was also part of the team that launched The Sustainable Investment Festival, the 2022 PPA business event of the year.

Giles Barrie has over 30 years of experience, and specialises in communications strategy, media relations, thought leadership, research and crisis communications. Giles is a former Editor-In-Chief of Property Week who has also worked at the architects’ paper Building Design and as Deputy Editor at Building magazine.

Giles won British Society of Magazine Editors, Periodical Publishers Association, Association of Online Publishers and International Building Press awards before joining FTI Consulting in 2013.

Giles works in corporate and financial communications and public affairs and advises some of the UK’s best real listed real estate companies, fund managers, developers, advisers, contractors and architects.

Denise Chevin is a journalist, editor, and commentator in the built environment. Her roles have included editing Building and before that Housing Today. She has edited Construction Manager and was consultant editor at Construction News and Utility Week. Denise has authored numerous reports and books from a diverse range of organisations – including the Smith Institute, the NLA and the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Excellence in the Built Environment. She was closely involved in successfully championing a New Homes Ombudsman. She has also worked closely with the Construction Industry Council on the industry response to Grenfell. In 2022 she was awarded an MBE for services to the built environment.

Andy Dunn was appointed Media Relation Executive at LMC following a 35-year career in journalism, including 27 years at the Daily Mail during which he rose to the position of Night Editor. He trained with the prestigious Thomsons Reuters before stints with the Middlesbrough Evening Gazette, Cambridge Evening News and Daily Express.

While Night Editor, Andy was responsible for the publication of more than two million newspapers a day. He also helped spearhead numerous campaigns, including justice for murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, Alzheimer’s Awareness and Banning Plastic Bags.

As Media Relations Executive at LMC, Andy leverages his extensive journalistic insight to develop national media campaigns, securing high-profile coverage for clients in the built environment sector.

Jonn Elledge is a freelance journalist, columnist for the New Statesman and New World magazines, and the author of three books, most recently A History of the World in 47 Borders. In 2014, he created the New Statesman's urbanism site CityMetric, which he edited until 2020. Prior to that, he spent ten years working on a range of trade magazines covering public services and infrastructure.

Rebecca's career as a B2B journalist included roles as news editor of Inside Housing and Local Government Chronicle, deputy editor of Health Service Journal and Nursing Times, and editor of Construction News from 2011-2017.She won the BSME weekly business brand editor of the year in 2014.

She is now head of infrastructure at ING Media.

Over the last few years, Rebecca has also had roles as director of content at political intelligence service DeHavilland and director of impact at social research agency Revealing Reality.

Dr Ben Falk is the programme director for MA Magazine Journalism at City St George's, University of London. He is also a freelance journalist with over 25 years experience writing for a variety of consumer and trade publications.

Yasmin has built a reputation as a cultural and communications thought leader on the importance of culture, creative enterprise and regenerative design principles in delivering both economic and social value. Her expertise in research, tracking investment trends and translating the power of culture and commerce is borne out of her previous experience working for the Financial Times where she developed her specialisms in foreign direct investment, ESG and design.

As a senior strategist, working across investment, real estate and the creative industries, Yasmin is committed to demonstrating the power of culture and co-creation as catalysts to unlocking inclusive regeneration.

Persis is an audio producer at the Financial Times, currently producing narrative investigations series Untold. She has worked across multiple different podcasts including chat shows, built narrative shows and daily shows.

Previously, she was the lead producer on Money Clinic under which the show won several awards, including a British Podcast Award. Her Tech Tonic series Can AI help us speak to animals? won best technology podcast at the Publisher Podcast Awards. She was winner of a 2023 MHP 30 To Watch Journalism award. In 2017, she was nominated for BBC Arabic young journalist of the year.

Stuart founded See Media in 2014, after building a career as an award-winning journalist. See Media is a specialist PR agency that provides strategic comms support to the UK’s housing sector. Stuart’s aim is for See Media to help team members and clients make a positive difference. The team works with housing associations, local authorities, consultancies and other key sector suppliers.

Stuart is Vice-Chair of global housing charity, World Habitat. He is also a past President of the IBP and former editor of Inside Housing. Stuart held senior roles at Building, Housing Today and reported for The London Evening Standard.

Emma is a life-long researcher, interested in what makes people tick and how to make changes for the better. She has spent 20 years in research and media. Her current research interests include targeting behaviour change interventions effectively to promote sustainable transport choices, and use of gamification to support behaviour change. Throughout Emma’s career, she has focused on social policy, social change, influence and decision-making. She has been editor and publisher of Inside Housing and Local Government Chronicle magazines.

Laura Mark is Head of Casework at the C20 Society. She is an award-winning architecture critic, curator, editor and researcher. Laura is currently undertaking a PhD at Newcastle University which considers the care and maintenance of domestic spaces through an autoethnographic study of the house museum, with a particular focus on her time as Keeper at Walmer Yard.

Before joining the C20 Society, Laura co-led the undergraduate first year at Sheffield School of Architecture and taught humanities and research courses throughout the undergraduate and masters programmes. She has previously taught at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University of Greenwich and the Birmingham School of Architecture and Design and Sweden’s UMEA University.

Trained as an architect, Laura worked in architectural practice before joining the editorial team of the Architects’ Journal. She held various roles at the magazine including Senior Reporter, Digital Editor, Special Projects Editor and Architecture Editor. She has also held curatorial positions at both Walmer Yard and the Royal Academy of Arts.

Samantha has more than two decades of experience in the UK real estate sector. In 2004 she took up a role as a rookie reporter at Estates Gazette, first covering the retail and leisure sector. Over the following 20 years she moved her way up through the ranks of EG, taking over as editor of EG in 2019 and holding the position until January 2025 when the business was sold to family-owned publishing house Mark Allen Group.

In May 2025, Samantha was appointed as chief executive of the British Council for Offices, a key industry body representing the workplace sector and the diverse set of players that bring this vital element of the UK built and business environment to life.

Sam also sits on the advisory board of Black Women in Real Estate.

Peter Murray OBE Hon FRIBA is Co Founder of New London Architecture (NLA), Founder of the London Festival of Architecture and Chairman of the Temple Bar Trust. He was formerly editor of Building Design, Editor and Publisher of RIBA Journal, Founder of Blueprint and IBP President. He was design advisor to London Mayor Boris Johnson and Design Advocate to Sadiq Khan. He was awarded an OBE 2021 for leadership in the arts, architecture, city planning, design and publishing and charity.

Richard Northedge worked on trade publications for the property world and architects before becoming property editor for the Investors Chronicle, then the Evening Standard. At the Daily Telegraph he was Deputy City Editor for 12 years, leaving to help found the Sunday Business newspaper, which he edited. After going freelance he spent 11 years at a City investment bank before returning to freelancing and novel writing in 2022. He has been an IBP judge for some 30 years.

Vanessa Norwood is a curator and consultant. She has shaped public and professional discourse on architecture through a series of critically acclaimed exhibitions. Vanessa works with clients in the built environment towards building a low-carbon future, one that respects people and planet.

Rebecca has worked across BBC local and national radio and TV news programmes as a reporter and producer. As a freelance journalist, she has contributed to BBC Radio 4 feature programmes including Feedback, You and Yours and Woman's Hour.

As a Senior Lecturer, Rebecca has taught hundreds of young people the essential skills needed to enter the journalism industry, including news writing, interviewing, media law and audio-visual production. She is passionate about getting under-represented voices into journalism and has mentored many of her graduates into their first jobs and beyond.

Rebecca holds a Post-Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (Advance HE). 

Debika is a writer, editor and consultant specialising in the arts, with a keen interest in the Global South, diasporic communities, cities and material culture. Over the past 20 years she has written for some of the world’s leading newspapers, magazines and websites – ranging from the Financial Times, the Guardian, The Independent and Al Jazeera, to Wallpaper, Kinfolk, Elle Decoration, Metropolis and Architectural Digest. At the moment, she is interim programme director of the Global Design Forum, the talks and thought leadership programme at London Design Festival and London Design Biennale. From 2022 to 2025, she was editor of Crafts and head of editorial and communications at the UK Crafts Council. Before that, she was senior editor at Icon and deputy editor at Disegno, and previously worked for Building, Building Design, Property Week and several other publications in dealing with the built environment.

Sarah Richardson is editor-in-chief and director of Research Professional News, an international daily news service for the higher education sector published by Clarivate. From 2012–2017 she was editor of Building, having held news editing, features editing and reporting roles on the title. She is a past winner of the Association of British Science Writers editor of the year award, PPA business writer of the year and IBP young journalist of the year. She is a Trustee of the Talent Foundry, a charity that works to create access to education and training opportunities for young people from challenged communities.

Barbara has led and taught on undergraduate and postgraduate journalism programmes at three of the UK’s leading journalism schools. She was director of City, University of London’s MA in Magazine Journalism from 2000-2018. She has over 20 years’ experience delivering media training packages in print and broadcast skills, to staff from pressure groups, public relations companies, charities, human rights organisations and government departments. She is a journalist and has worked across B2Bs, consumer magazines and national newspapers, both as a generalist and as a health specialist.

Jack is an award-winning journalist who currently works as a money reporter at The Times. He spent seven years as a journalist in the built environment sector working at Construction News and Inside Housing, where he won a few IBPs along the way. After this, he spent time at The Telegraph as its transport correspondent and The Guardian as business reporter before moving to The Times earlier this year.

Ruth Slavid is a writer and editor who specialises in architecture, construction, landscape and lighting. She worked in a number of roles at The Architects’ Journal and previously at Construction News.

Since becoming freelance in 2008, Ruth has written for numerous publications and organisations, as well as chairing webinars and judging competitions. She is the author of 10 books on architecture.

Currently, Ruth is studying for a masters in sustainable cities at Birkbeck and hopes to write another book on wood architecture. She is a longstanding judge of the Wood Awards and a member of the IBP board.

Ruth has a degree in Metallurgy and Materials Science from the University of Cambridge.

Katherine is an Engineer, award winning journalist and business development professional with almost 20 years of experience in working in the built environment.

She started out her career as a structural engineer working on a range of projects including the earthquake rebuild effort in Christchurch New Zealand. She subsequently moved into technical journalism covering all aspects of civil infrastructure, with HS2 exclusives and live appearances on Radio 4, 5Live and BBC World Service after a number of high-profile bridge collapses. She is a passionate advocate for clear, accurate and engaging reporting on engineering topics. She is now using her combined experience, to lead the growth of AtkinsRealis’ offshore wind business.

Claire Smith is geotechnical engineer by training but has spent the main part of her career as a construction journalist. She worked all over the world on a number of different construction titles before joining Emap in 2011 to edit Ground Engineering magazine with a greater focus on the UK market. In 2020, she took over as editor of New Civil Engineer and became the magazine’s first female editor and oversaw its 50th anniversary celebrations in 2022.

Claire joined Mott MacDonald as managing editor in late 2023 where she is responsible for the company’s external editorial content across UK and Europe.

Caroline has worked as a journalist for more than 20 years, many of them focused on the built environment. Now freelance, her previous roles include commissioning editor at the Financial Times and deputy editor of Inside Housing.

Andy is a strategic communications, public affairs and membership engagement professional and also a journalist, writer, and presenter, with three decades of experience. He has particular experience and knowledge of the construction, built environment and infrastructure sector and is managing editor of the online news platform Infrastructure Global, for which he writes regularly. Andy was previously the editor of the construction sector magazine and website, Infrastructure Intelligence and is a regular contributor to Climate Perspectives magazine. He also advises a range of clients across the built environment sector on communications issues.

Sandy Warr is a Senior Lecturer at City St George's University and a multi-award winning radio presenter.

Sandy pioneered the MA Podcasting degree at the University which is the first in the UK ( and quite possibly the world) to recognise how podcasting has become a significant platform for creatives to work and connect with audiences.

Sandy still presents on LBC News ( on Sunday Mornings) and has won awards for documentaries on the first Iraq War, Band Aid, and political and sport reporting. Sandy also worked for a period as media trainer and audio PR adviser within the Financial Services sector including working with leading mortgage brokers and building societies.

Sandy is a passionate supporter of AFC Wimbledon and owns two bricks in the stadium - so knows a good construction when she sees one!

James spent 25 years as a journalist, latterly as executive editor of Property Week, before joining public relations consultancy, Tavistock, in 2013, to focus on the real estate sector. As a journalist he won many IBP awards and the PPA’s Business Writer of the Year in 2007, one of the top prizes for business journalists.

Robyn Wilson is a former built environment journalist and News Editor at Construction News. Now an established travel journalist with bylines in major national outlets, she also applies her deep sector expertise to content, consultancy and strategy for blue-chip clients in the construction industry. Her blend of frontline editorial experience and industry knowledge makes her a trusted voice across the sector.