New London Architecture

Rachael Owens

Head of Sustainability

Buckley Gray Yeoman

Rachael Owens
Rachael Owens is an architect and Head of Sustainability at Buckley Gray Yeoman, a practice that champions the adaptive reuse of existing buildings. She is also co-Director of the National Retrofit Hub, a non-profit collaborative organisation that brings together those involved in the sector to enable the local delivery of retrofit at scale. 

Rachael sits on the NLA Net Zero expert panel and is a WELL accredited professional.   She was named 2021 RIBA Journal Rising Star for her work in practice to communicate sustainable design and within the Architects Climate Action Network to campaign for the regulation of embodied carbon emissions. In 2023 she joined the RIBA Stirling Prize jury as the sustainability expert and this year, she won the AJ100 Sustainability Leader of the Year award.
 

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Biophilic design in the heart of the city

Wellbeing

11 August 2022

Biophilic design in the heart of the city

Rachael Owens, Head of Sustainability at Buckley Gray Yeoman explores how the design team at 25 Cannon Street created a direct and meaningful connection between building users and the natural world, t...

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