The judging panel

Peter Clegg
Senior Partner MA(Cantab) MEnvD RIBA, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Peter Clegg established Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios with Richard Feilden in 1978. Educated at Cambridge and Yale, he is a Visiting Professor at the University of Bath.

Internationally recognised as one of the early pioneers of sustainability, he has 30 years' experience in low energy architecture and is actively involved in research and environmental design. Last year Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios was named Sustainable Designer of the Year.

Andrew Grant
Director, Grant Associates
Andrew formed Grant Associates in 1995 to explore the emerging frontiers of landscape architecture within sustainable development. His approach is driven by a fascination with creative ecology and the promotion of quality and innovation in project work. He has experience in all scales and types of projects from sub-regional planning to the detailing of the smallest piece of new landscapes. Andrew was the lead landscape architect for the Stirling prize winning Accordia housing scheme in Cambridge, the urban regeneration project at New Islington in Manchester and is currently leading the team for the Gardens by the Bay project in Singapore.

He is a member of CABE Space and the South West Regional Design Panel. Andrew studied Landscape Architecture at Heriot-Watt University/Edinburgh College of Art, 1977-1982

Nick Jonson
BSc (HONS) ARICS, Urban Splash Group Ltd
Nick is Deputy Chief Executive of Urban Splash, one of Britain's leading regeneration property companies.

Urban Splash's success has come from its wide and holistic agenda: working with world class architects to produce world class buildings and places; working with communities to provide a wide range of affordable homes; delivering mixed use buildings; and finally and probably most importantly being environmentally responsible.

Alistair McGowan
Comedian and Airplot co-owner
Alistair is a comedian, impressionist and actor. A gift for mimicry earned him a place among the Spitting Image regulars (he provided the voices of Tony Blair, Prince Charles and Hugh Grant), from where he graduated to his own award-winning series, The Big Impression.

Alistair is also passionate about the environment and has devoted himself to numerous campaigns to reduce waste and protect the environment. He is particularly concerned about climate change and joined with Greenpeace to buy the Airplot in January 2009.

He is also an ambassador to WWF.

Sarah North
Campaigns Director, Greenpeace UK
With a first class degree in Applied Ecology and MSC in conservation, Sarah is Greenpeace’s Campaigns Director and the brains behind the Airplot. Over the last decade, she has spearheaded successful Greenpeace campaigns which have defeated governments and forced climate change up the national and international agenda.

Before joining Greenpeace, Sarah took part in numerous direct actions and protests as part of the grassroots movement which overturned the Conservative Party’s road-building programme. She was at Newbury, she campaigned against the M11 link route and took part in Reclaim the Streets.

Oli Rodker
Environmental activist
Oli is a woodworker but also an experienced campaigner: active from the peace movement of the 1980s, through the anti-roads movement of the 90s and still at it with climate change campaigning today.

Professor and director of Atelier One
Atelier One, of which Neil Thomas is director, has been described as "the most innovative engineering practice in the UK". Over two decades Atelier One has built a world-class reputation for ingenuity and innovation. By closely integrating structural engineering into each project, Atelier One creates a perception of material or spatial phenomena that transcends the sum of each project’s composite parts.

Atelier One strives to find the most efficient structural solutions requiring the least resources. In parallel the practice is continually researching materials, systems and construction methods that reduce energy consumption and regulate harmful emissions. As part of a wider design, Atelier One embraces all new technologies carefully integrating them where appropriate to achieve more environmental responsible proposals.

Rachel Whiteread
Artist
Rachel Whiteread is one of Britain's leading contemporary sculptors. She shot to public attention in 1993 with her sculpture, House, a life-sized replica of the interior of a condemned terraced house in London's East End which provoked intense public debate until it was eventually demolished in 1994.

Over the last decade she has developed a significant international reputation, creating major public works in both Europe and the United States. Her winning proposal for the Holocaust memorial at the Judenplatz in Vienna was one of the most prestigious sculptural commissions in Europe in the 1990s. It was unveiled in October 2000. She represented the UK at the 1997 Venice Biennale and created Monument for the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square in 2001. Her Water Tower (1998) was just reinstalled on the roof of the Museum of Modern Art, New York this autumn. She lives and works in London and her work is represented in many private and public collections worldwide.

Landscape architect and artist Martha Schwartz had originally agreed to be on the judging panel, however due to unforeseen work commitments, Martha unfortunately no longer has the time capacity to be able to sit on the panel, despite her full support for the project.