Meet the commissioners: Simon Tolson

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Simon Tolson discusses the importance of good design, maintaining skills and his passion for energy and tech innovation

Building magazine is 180 years old this year. What lessons about the built environment should we take from the past?

Maintaining skills and recording knowhow so we do not repeat building mistakes of the past.

For the end user/client appreciate the technicalities of altering existing structures, the complexity of updating/upgrading a building to contemporary standards and the challenges of spatial planning within an existing building’s constraints.

Not over selling and not under imagining the possible.

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