Meet the team
RISE is made up of five teams, each supporting a specific area of our work: Warm Homes Project Delivery; Retrofit supply chain; Learning & Development; Communications & Engagement; and Technical support.
RISE is delivered by an extensive team of specialists, many who are subject matter experts in fields relating to retrofit.
Meet a few of our RISE team members…
Kate Watson, Principal Consultant, Sustainable Communities & Industries at Turner & Townsend
Kate Watson is a retrofit specialist in the domestic housing sector. Kate is Technical Support Lead for RISE, managing a team of specialist consultants providing support to housing associations and local authorities. She has over 20 years’ experience of delivering programmes and projects in the construction sector, fourteen within domestic retrofit at scale for local authorities and housing providers.
David Kemp, Director, Sustainable Communities and Industries at Turner & Townsend
David has spent over 19 years delivering bespoke projects and programmes on behalf of clients, involving business support and consultancy relating to sustainability and procurement agendas, with a specific focus on zero carbon strategies, building retrofit (energy efficiency and renewable technologies) and innovation. David is the RISE Programme Director.
Jordane Shaw, Principal Consultant, Sustainable Communities and Industries at Turner & Townsend
Jordane is a housing policy professional with over 13 years of sector experience including senior stakeholder engagement, programme management, external affairs, policy and strategy and governance. Jordane leads on communications and engagement for RISE, including senior leadership engagement with C-Suite and Executives within housing associations and local authorities.
Sarah McClelland, Associate Director, Sustainable Communities and Industries, Turner & Townsend
Sarah has over 18 years’ experience in housing and carbon reduction. Since joining Turner & Townsend in 2022, Sarah leads the communications, learning & development workstream of the RISE service with a focus on sharing best practice and upskilling local authorities and housing associations to enable them to deliver high quality retrofit programmes.