Nigel Tonks is a Director at Arup. He is the UKIMEA Region Board Member for Sustainable Development. Nigel has over 30 years’ experience as a Consulting Engineer, working with clients and collaborators in the built environment and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers.
Nigel is a senior advisor to the UNFCCC Climate Champions Built Environment Team, forging global campaigns with non-state actors for the Race to Zero and the Race to Resilience, and is an active member of the Building to COP coalition.
Nigel Tonks is a Director at Arup. He is the UKIMEA Region Board Member for Sustainable Development. Nigel has over 30 years’ experience as a Consulting Engineer, working with clients and collaborators in the built environment and is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers.
Nigel is a senior advisor to the UNFCCC Climate Champions Built Environment Team, forging global campaigns with non state actors for the Race to Zero and the Race to Resilience, and is an active member of the Building to COP coalition.
Nigel is a passionate advocate for transforming the built environment to a decarbonised, more resilient, healthy and more equitable future, aligned with 1.5oC Climate Action, and for promoting the radical collaboration necessary to achieve these goals.
Nigel is the sponsor for Arup’s Whole Life Carbon commitment for Buildings and driving the program of decarbonisation of buildings for clients across its services. This includes oversight of the Arup Zero technology platform which enables WLC assessment of all Arup’s international building output to a common, whole-building standard.
Working in several different countries, Nigel has experienced a wide range of regulation, green building standards and regional approaches to grappling with sustainable development. Key projects include Amorepacific Headquarters Building, Seoul (winner of the 2021 CIBSE Building Performance Award) Turner Contemporary, Margate (UK’s first BREEAM rated gallery in the UK), St Louis Art Museum (highest LEED rated public building in St Louis), and sustainable development advisory services to The Nobel Foundation.
Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of 18,000 designers, advisors and experts working across 140 countries. We are an independent firm, owned in trust by our members. We choose work where we can make a positive difference in the world.
Founded over 75 years ago to be both humane and excellent, Arup has been at the forefront of the most ambitious and challenging design and engineering. We collaborate with our clients and partners using imagination, technology and rigour to shape a better world.
Arup is in the Race to Zero committed to becoming a net zero organisation by 2030, to halting and reversing nature loss by 2030, and our primary goal is to develop a truly sustainable built environment. This means that in all our work, we aim to identify a balance between the needs of a growing world population and the finite capacity and health of our planet.
