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A conversation with Chris Rush

Chris is a Director and air quality consultant lead at Hoare Lea, an award-winning, multi-discipline engineering consultancy with a creative team of engineers, designers, and technical specialists.


Part of the Tetra Tech Group, a global provider of environmentally focused consulting and engineering services, and part of its renowned Tetra Tech High-Performance Buildings Group.


Chris is focused on promoting air quality's crucial health and well-being role in our built environment and the opportunity that buildings play as part of this.

Through his involvement as chair of the professional body for air quality in the UK – the Institute of Air Quality Management (IAQM), vice chair of the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE) Air Quality Working Group and council member of the Institution of Environmental Sciences (IES) he aims to improve and is passionate about harnessing the value of air quality through the design and operation of buildings.

He is a Chartered Environmentalist, a Member of the Institute of Acoustics, a Full Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment, a Member of the IES as well as Full Member of the IAQM.

Chris is a thought leader in this field, and the impact he and large consultancy practices play in moving the needle, not just with customers but internally in the cross pollination of ideas and idials, is enormous.

He is at the vanguard of air quality in the built environment not just through Hoare lea but also in the development and growth of the IAQM.

Chris Rush - LinkedIn
Hoare Lea
Tetra Tech
Institute of Air Quality Management
Institute of Environmental Science

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A conversation with Mazen Jamal

With two decades of experience in the built environment, Mazen's journey in sales has led him from the Middle East to Sweden, where he started working in early prop-tech companies specializing in space utilization, occupancy detection, Indoor Air Quality monitoring, and smart/healthy building analytics.


Since he has conducted business across North America, and Continental Europe, all the way to India, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan.

I always think it's interesting talking to people involved in business development, account management and sales it is at the bleeding commercial edge of the sector.

It's close to my heart, but professionals like Mazen are also having conversations daily with the people who count, the customers, in whatever form they take, from C-suite executives to space users.

So it was a real pleasure to talk to Mazen, someone driven to grow the digital smart built environment. And someone who has worked at the coal face in sensor tech, smart buildings and healthy buildings.

Mazen is a straight shooter, and full of insight. Well respected and worth a listen to, in my opinion.

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Tom Robins - CEO - Switchee

Founded in 2015 by Adam Fudakowski (CEO) and Ian Napier (CCO), they believed that internet-connected technology could be applied to help social landlords better manage their stock and reduce residents' fuel bills. The solution: a smart thermostat designed specifically for landlords with a dashboard providing real-time data and insights, including some of the environmental conditions within the home.

Following Ian’s death in tragic circumstances in 2019, Adam and the team resolved to continue growing the business in his memory.

In 2020 Tom came into the business and a year later promoted to CEO. Under his stewardship, the business has continued to grow.

Tom has spent his career in scale-up leadership roles; Manufacturing Consulting with Newton, Financial Services Analytics with BIPB, A Board Decision Platform with Board Intelligence and Telecommunications with Community Fibre.

He has been working with the Housing Sector since 2015 and believes in
the power of technology to improve the quality of life for residents while transforming the operating model for providers.

Tom is a real people-focused leader with a track record in building and motivating teams. He also has a technical background, with a master's in chemical engineering from the University of Cambridge.

I have followed Switchee’s journey from its early days and have been fascinated by the passion of the people in it and its mission-led approach to data from the built environment. I was intrigued to chat with Tom about Switchee’s lived experience of translating data in a meaningful way, that they genuinely try to answer important questions in the sector and how that potential can be unlocked.

As more and more of the spaces we occupy provide meaningful data about the environment around us, the lessons companies like Switcee are learning could be valuable insight for others.

Moreover, Tom can paint a picture of what scale-up in this space looks like and the potential it holds.

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Switchee

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