Gareth Jones, Conservation Accredited Architect - Pollock Hammond Ltd.

Gareth Jones studied Architecture and Urban Conservation in Dundee before working for several years with The Scottish Historic Buildings Trust.  He had worked as an Assistant with William A Cadell in Linlithgow and subsequently returned to the firm, by then the Pollock Hammond Partnership, as an Architect specialising in historic building projects.  He is currently Director of Pollock Hammond Ltd.

Gareth also has an interest in Scotland's early industrial history and has researched and developed experimental archaeology projects relating to salt production and its associated coastal buildings and infrastructure.  

Cristina González-Longo - Architect & Lecturer, University of Strathclyde

Cristina González-Longo is a Chartered Architect in UK and Spain and RIBA Specialist Conservation Architect (SCA). She is the Founder and Director of the MSc in Architectural Design for the Conservation of Built Heritage at the Department of Architecture of the University of Strathclyde, where she has also created and is leading the Architectural Design and Conservation Research Unit (ADCRU).
Her research group deals with the challenges of conserving built heritage while allowing changes to adapt historic buildings for contemporary uses, as well as with the design of new buildings to conserve the environment, which requires an interdisciplinary approach. After graduating at the School of Architecture of the Technical University of Madrid (ETSAM), Cristina spent three years in Rome with a scholarship from the Italian Government to study architectural conservation at the Specialisation School of the Sapienza University of Rome. On completion of the course, she won a government competition to conserve a twelve-century church in Spain, where she set her practice in 1996.

Since, she had a central role in taking decisions concerning historic buildings of outstanding national and international importance and wide experience in leading the design, management and procurement of award-winning architectural projects. She was the project architect and resident architect of Queensberry House, a Category A Listed building, part of the new Scottish Parliament complex in Edinburgh (RIBA Stirling Prize 2005). She also designed Bowbridge Primary School in Newark, UK (RICS Sustainability Award 2009), with an innovative lamella glulam structure.

She has lectured widely and extensible published, including his PhD thesis on preservation and transformation, published by Routledge (2020). She is, for the second term, the elected President of the ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites) International Scientific Committee on Education and Training (CIF).

Other biographies to be added shortly.