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.

Nadine is a Content Editor for External Communications at AtkinsRéalis, where she develops insight-led content on infrastructure and the systems needed to deliver major programmes. Her work focuses on connecting policy, investment and delivery challenges in a way that resonates with industry audiences. A former journalist, she brings a strong editorial and audience-focused approach to communicating complex industry issues.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jay is a Director at Bell Phillips Architects, where she leads the design and delivery of large-scale housing, regeneration and masterplanning projects across the UK. Her work focuses on creating high-quality, sustainable homes that respond to the challenges of climate change, affordability and changing communities.

Alongside practice, Jay has spent over a decade contributing to housing and built environment policy at local and national level. She regularly engages with government, industry and the media, serves on design review panels, and is a member of the steering group for Architects' Action for Affordable Housing. She also hosts the Architects for Change podcast, bringing together leaders from across the built environment to discuss the future of architecture. A former parliamentary candidate, she has also stood as a candidate for local government.

Jay was recently elected to be the next RIBA President, president elect from 1st September she will take office as president 2027-2029. Her campaign has focused on championing the value of architects, strengthening the profession's voice in shaping public policy, and promoting innovation to deliver better places and a more sustainable built environment.

Andrew Mylius is a freelance journalist, writer, editor and content strategist. He's a steering group member of the Built Environment Connective, a contributing editor to Building magazine, writes for several engineering institutions, and delivers editorial and marketing projects for clients across the AEC industry. He kicked off a 30-year journalism career in the late 90s at New Civil Engineer, where he became features editor and special correspondent. From 2007 to 2025 he was global head of content and editorial manager at engineering consultant Mott MacDonald.

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.

Brett is a Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre of Podcasting Excellence at City, University of London.

 He is also a founder of the SJ Broadcast consultancy, a creative consultant for Spiritland Productions and is Executive Editor of BBC Three Counties Radio and BBC Northampton, where he won the Radio Moment of the Year award last year for a project with Coldplay.

He was the Exec Producer on The Captain Tom Story podcast for BBC Sounds over the last two years. He spent three years as Digital Content Director at Bauer Media working across both their national brands and local radio network. Prior to this he spent fifteen years at The BBC working for a range of networks including BBC Radio 5 Live, Radio 2, 6 Music and the Asian Network. He was part of the team that launched podcasting at the BBC and won a Sony Award for multiplatform for Wimbledon at BBC Radio 5 Live. Brett was part of the Commissioning team at 5 Live and then commissioned programmes, podcasts and digital output across the BBC Music Radio Networks.

Other major projects included 6 Music Live with Lauren Laverne, Radio 2 In Concert with Jo Whiley, Sounds of the 80s with Sara Cox and BBC Asian Network Comedy. He created and ran the pop up stations Radio 2 Eurovision (2 years) and Radio 2 Country (3 years)He has worked on events ranging from the General Election to the World Cup, the Olympics to Glastonbury, Radio 2 at Hyde Park to the 6 Music Festivals in Bristol, Newcastle, Glasgow and Manchester. He has also worked for IMG, ITN, GMTV and LBC as a programme maker and news editor.

David edits New London Quarterly (NLQ), the magazine affiliated with New London Architecture, is editor of its weekly newsletter, New London Weekly, and edits Velocity Magazine, the magazine about people, property and bikes, which he co-founded. He is also a freelance writer and podcaster, having launched ‘Detailer – commute-sized conversations about the city’, and is the author of a number of books, most recently ‘The Making of Barangaroo South, Sydney’, for RSHP.

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.

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.