Dr Qian Li

I am one of the first people that started offering whole life carbon assessment as a professional service and helped develop most the world's leading whole life carbon frameworks. I am currently advising industry bodies like the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI), the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), and the Greater London Authority (GLA) on the development of their whole life carbon standards. I also lead a working group updating and aligning the embodied carbon targets of LETI, RIBA and the GLA.

Whole life carbon is a new topic for our industry, and our challenge is to create early stage visualisations of the subject, which is very complex. These help us to present the concept of whole life carbon to our clients and make an obscure concept easier to understand.

The sustainability team at Cundall has been industry leaders in the development of technical and standard methodology for whole life carbon. We have written government policies in multiple regions and have contributed to industry methodologies that help everyone design more sustainable buildings.