Our Australian business is delighted to announce Hannah Blossom has joined the Victorian practice as Director of Sustainability. A leading strategist in the sustainability sector, with extensive networks across the Victorian property industry, Blossom moved across to Cundall after holding senior leadership roles at WSP and Irwinconsult.

“Hannah has joined Cundall at a time when we are rapidly accelerating progress towards all our projects and clients being zero carbon by 2030,” said Cundall Australia Managing Director, Garrit Schot.

“Her deep understanding of client drivers combined with her brilliant technical abilities will continue to grow and evolve our team’s track record in achieving transformational sustainability outcomes for both new builds and existing assets.”

Blossom said she sees enormous opportunities to deliver science-based sustainability approaches that contribute to decarbonisation of the built environment.

“Working with architects and other stakeholders and applying iterative design principles to improve how buildings perform is something I am really looking forward to. Cundall’s talented team and their demonstrated capabilities in leading transformation of the built environment really attracted me to the role,” Blossom said.

She is excited about applying her expertise on the broader scale of masterplans, precincts, campuses and regions.

“To achieve genuine decarbonisation, as opposed to relying on offsetting to achieve net zero, we need to be thinking outside the property boundary and looking at the precinct and regional scale,” Blossom says. “We also need to dissolve the siloing between the design disciplines of architecture, engineering and planning.”

She has a passion for the social value creation dimension of sustainability, and was recently appointed Deputy Chair of the Property Council of Australia Victorian Branch newly-formed Social Infrastructure Committee.