How to create sustainable communities
Through triple-bottom line accounting, local authorities can leverage land and assets to create sustainable communities that respond to the climate and ecological emergency
Ronan Leyden
Director of Consultancy
I joined Bioregional in 2007 and now provide expertise on how to use our One Planet Living framework across our Sustainable Business and Sustainable Places delivery teams
As Bioregional’s Director of Consultancy, I provide expertise on how to use our One Planet Living framework across our Sustainable Business and Sustainable Places delivery teams.
With particular expertise in energy and carbon, the circular economy, corporate reporting, waste minimisation and reuse as well as BREEAM and environmental metrics, my recent work includes projects for Land Securities, Legal & General, U&I, Kingfisher Group, Careys and Skanska.
I previously led Bioregional’s work on the London 2012 Olympics, working on-site to help achieve the ambitious 98% target for recycling and reuse of construction and demolition waste.
I have a Post Graduate Diploma in Housing and City Planning, an MSc in Design for Sustainability, and a BSc in Physics and Philosophy and I’m a Practitioner of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment.
As well as my role at Bioregional I am also Senior Development Manager at Bioregional Homes, where we are creating new, locally affordable, truly sustainable homes using our One Planet Living framework.
Before Bioregional
I helped run a national programme of co-design workshops for the Building Schools for the Future programme. We took a multi-disciplinary approach to involving the end-users in shaping their school environments.
When I'm not at work
I am busy learning how to be a dad to my ever-growing little boy and doing eco-renovation on a creaky Victorian terraced house.
To secure a liveable future the property industry must end its addiction to fossil fuels
An alliance of sustainability experts from across the built environment have pledged to boycott new projects that use fossil fuel heating systems. Ronan Leyden, Director of Consultancy, explains why it is time for the property industry to #EndGasNow
Bioregional helps launch campaign to #EndGasNow – here's why
Bioregional has pledged only to work on new projects that are fossil fuel-free as part of an industry campaign to #EndGasNow and spur the property industry into action to tackle the climate emergency
