Lewis Chenery is a Chartered Environmentalist and sustainability specialist with over 12 years experience in the built environment sector. He has an extensive background working across construction, infrastructure, aviation, and facilities management industries, both as a consultant and in-house expert.  

Currently, Lewis is the Head of Environment & Sustainability at Equans UK & Ireland. In this role, he leads on sustainability, a wide range of programmes and provides support to projects in healthcare, education, homeland security, local government, and commercial sectors.  

His responsibilities include designing and delivering corporate and client sustainability strategies, ensuring legislative compliance, and scoping emerging technologies for the business to deliver sustainable outcomes.  

In her role at IWFM, Melissa contributes to efforts that drive insights and transformation within the profession. 

Before joining IWFM, Melissa accumulated over 15 years of experience at a market research fieldwork agency, where she gained valuable expertise in data and analysis and managed a diverse array of projects for public and private sector clients, both in the UK and internationally. 

Melissa also has a background as an analyst with corporate and consultancy experience, having worked at Scottish Power and Wood Mackenzie. 

Sofie Hooper leads on the IWFM’s wider policy and public affairs work, helping to raise the voice of the Institute, its members and the wider workplace and facilities management sector. She engages with stakeholders to ensure best practice is taken on board and concerns affecting workplace and facilities professionals are mitigated.

Covering a wide range of activities and areas, sustainability, workplace and building safety form the core agenda. Sofie has been leading on IWFM’s Building Safety Manager work programme, feeding into the legislative process towards the Building Safety Bill.  She provided the Secretariat for the Competence Steering Group’s Working Group 8, which developed the Building Safety Managers competence framework. 

In addition to being the co-author of the Group’s report, Safer people, safer homes: Building Safety Management, she is a regular contributor to Facilitate. Building on WG8’s recommendations, Sofie is a part of the Interim Executive of the Building Safety Alliance, a cross sector collaboration which is working to improve holistic building safety competence across the occupation phase. She is also a part of the Steering Committee for the DLUCH sponsored PAS 8673, which is setting the competence specification for Building Safety Managers.

Kam oversees carbon management, sustainability, social value, and equality, diversity and inclusivity for EMCOR UK and its clients. Key objectives for Kam include leading the ESG strategy, monitoring and reporting ESG metrics, and advising clients on ESG reporting requirements.

Kam, a chartered engineer and MBA-qualified executive with more than 30 years of experience, joined EMCOR UK in 2022 as director of carbon solutions. He has been leading EMCOR UK’s Carbon Transformation service. Kam stated that the ESG role demonstrates EMCOR UK’s commitment to creating a better work environment and engaging with global trends.

Claire is the Executive Director of Property and Environment for University of West London and a member of the Vice Chancellor’s Executive, responsible for the delivery of Net Zero for the institution.  Claire is a Chartered Surveyor and has worked in the Construction and Built Environment industry for 20 years. Claire has delivered several successful decarbonisation projects and is also driving the embedding of sustainability across the institution.