This new focused role will be led by Emma Thomas, who was previously one of the drivers of the Construction and Demolition Waste Programme Manager at CEW. As director of for the new Sustainability Programme her work will reach across the Waste and Low Zero Carbon Hub Programmes whilst supporting the core construction agenda.

Emma joined CEW in 2008 from ARENA Network where she worked across the Envirowise programme. She has won the respect of Welsh construction opinion formers and decision makers because of a practical approach to dealing with issues that combines excellent academic knowledge of her field with business sense.

Emma said: “Waste and low carbon go hand in hand. It is far too easy for the construction supply chain to do a job with the best intentions and yet create waste, or fail to reduce carbon. We need to educate everyone from tradesmen and surveyors to clients and designers to look at the whole picture. That way we can make sure that every gain made in one agenda is not undermined by a deficit in the other.”