Emma Carter

Associate

Emma Carter is an Associate at Bell Phillips with over a decade of professional experience. She leads projects for local authorities and private developers and her diverse portfolio includes award-winning housing schemes, innovative workspace and holistic interiors, most recently overseeing a major new office development for British Land in Canada Water.

She is passionate about diversifying the industry. She is a member of the Part W Steering Group, campaigning for gender equity in the built environment, leads the Bell Phillips Social Value Group, co-ordinating the practice’s social value commitments, studio policies, work placements and internal mentoring programmes and is a WIA mentor.

Latest contributions

Placemaking

02 September 2025

Workplace Trends: How Placemaking Can Help Offices Earn the Commute

Why go into the office anymore? The answer is complicated. Work can now happen anywhere, so the office has to mean more than desks and square footage.

Brooks Road Estate Retrofit: 20 Years On

Net Zero

21 January 2025

Brooks Road Estate Retrofit: 20 Years On

Twenty years ago, Bell Phillips began with a winning design for Brooks Road Estate retrofit in East London. Read as they reflect on its success and retrofitting’s evolution since.

Housing

11 May 2021

Passivhaus – An achievable solution for local authorities to meet their sustainability and housing targets?

With the government committed to reaching ‘net zero’ greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and more than two thirds of councils declaring a climate emergency, local authorities are facing a challenge – how...