Edge Environment welcomes Joel to the team

Recently Joel Clayton joined the Edge Environment team to work on sustainable buildings and infrastructure.

Joel’s expertise lies in low energy building design, renewable energy systems, energy efficiency, and delivering Green Star, LEED and BASIX compliant buildings. With over 6 years’ experience working as an environmental sustainable design (ESD) engineer in Sydney, Hong Kong, Shanghai, London and Vancouver. Joel has gained valuable international experience.

Joel’s background lies in photovoltaic engineering and solar energy. He graduated with a BEng (honours) from UNSW in the same field, with a major focus on renewable energy systems, zero energy building design and environmentally sustainable building design. His experience includes thermal, daylight and air movement computational modelling of ESD strategies, managing Green Star submissions, sustainability master-planning, district energy feasibility studies and green building design consulting for residential, office, retail, educational, industrial, healthcare, lifestyle and leisure buildings.

Joel is recently back in the country after a trip to South and Central America. In his spare time Joel is a keen surfer and snowboarder but also enjoys watching most sports, getting to music gigs and admiring good architecture and the natural environment.

Below Joel offers a few insights into his motivations and first impression of Edge.

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Growing up on the South Coast of NSW, I was exposed to the natural environment through the many national parks and beautiful coastlines in the area. I always wanted to ensure the next generations were able to enjoy the natural environment like I did. So I decided to always work in a field that was trying to better the world and environment and not make it worst. So Sustainability was a natural fit.

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[expand title=”Why did you choose Edge Environment?”]

For the interesting and diverse environmental projects they are working on. Also for the enviable working culture and the lifestyle opportunities of being based near manly beach.

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[expand title=”What’s the most fascinating thing you’ve learnt since starting with Edge?”]

That the insurance industry is taking building resilience from climate change events and extreme weather events very seriously and the result of this building resilience assessment will affect insurance premiums in the future.

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