Judges

The judges for the 2007 Prize were:

Wayne Hemingway, Hemingway Design
Kay Henning, Founder and Trustee, The Eco Trust
Lori McElroy, Project Director, Sust Project, The Lighthouse Trust
Duncan McLaren, Chief Executive, Friends of the Earth Scotland

Wayne Hemingway is the highly successful co-founder of Red and Dead which won the British Fashion Council’s “Street Style Designer of the Year” award three times in a row in the 1990s. After 21 consecutive seasons on the catwalk at London Fashion Week, Wayne and his partner sold Red or Dead in a multi million cash sale. In 1999, they set up Hemingway Design, a design company, which specialises in affordable and social design. Their most high profile project is The Staiths South Bank which has won a series of high profile awards including Housing Design Awards (best large project), Building Magazine’s “Best Housing-Led Regeneration Project” as well as a Building for Life.

Wayne is Chairman of Building for Life, a CABE (Commission for Architecture and The Built Environment) funded organisation that promotes excellence in the quality of design of new housing. He got an MBE in the June 2006 Queens Birthday List and is a Professor in The Built Environment Department of Northumbria University and a Doctor of Design at Wolverhampton. Other projects include consultancy for Gola, books and public speaking, including a recent public talk at Scotland’s Six Cities Design Festival. He is a writer for architectural and housing publications, a TV design commentator as well as a judge for international design competitions including the regeneration of Byker in Newcastle and Salford in Greater Manchester, the Stirling Prize and Europan.

Kay Henning founded the Eco Trust in 2004 to celebrate creativity and to inspire environmentally-friendly living and greener lifestyles. She is also Director of Catalyst Media, a media consultancy, which designs and implements initiatives to support media innovation and creative company growth.

Lori McElroy has a background spanning environmental engineering, architecture and design and has been working in the energy and environmental field for the last 25 years both in practice and in education. Lori is a past committee member of the Scottish Ecological Design Association and the immediate past Chairman of the Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers in Scotland.

Duncan McLaren joined Friends of the Earth Scotland as Chief Executive in May 2003. He has been an environmental activist, researcher and campaigner for 20 years. The birth of his first child in 2005 encouraged him to campaign even harder for a sustainable future. Duncan is currently also a member of the UK Green Fiscal Commission, the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Joint Research Councils’ Energy Programme and the editorial board of the Local Environment journal.