Professor J Owen Lewis, Chief Executive of Sustainable Energy Ireland
Professor Dr. Tom Woolley, an architect and environmental researcher
Ciaran O’Connor, Assistant Principal Architect, OPW
Vivienne Brophy, Director of the UCD Energy Research Group
Tomás O’Leary, MosArt, designers of Ireland’s first Passive House
Jeff Colley, Editor Construct Ireland
Dr Sandra O’Connell, Editor Architecture Ireland (Chair) 

Tom Woolley B.Arch, PhD is an architect and environmental researcher living in County Down Northern Ireland.  He was Professor of Architecture at Queens University Belfast from 1991 to 2007 but is now Professor of Architecture at the Centre for Alternative Technology Graduate School of the Environment. He is Professor of Sustainable Rural Architecture at the Countryside and Communities Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire and also a visiting Professor at the University of Central Lancashire. He is an associate with Rachel Bevan Architects. He has previously taught at the Architectural Association, Strathclyde University and Hull (now Lincoln) School of Architecture. He is an Adjunct Professor at UITM Malaysia.   He was editor of the Green Building Handbook and author of Natural Building (Crowood Press) and Hemp and Lime Construction (BRE/HIS Press). The Green Building Handbook won the Chartered Institute of Building Gold Medal for publishing. He has written many articles, contributed chapters to several other books and spoken at various international conferences. He is a regular speaker to voluntary and non-government organisations, self-build and community groups. He is a member of the Ministerial Advisory Group for Architecture (Northern Ireland) and was an elected Board member of the UK Architects Registration Board from 2006-2009, a member of the Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland and the Energy Institute. He undertakes research and consultancy work for Government bodies and for a number of trade bodies in the construction industry. He was short-listed for the Building Magazine Sustainable Champion Award 2007. Tom Woolley and Rachel Bevan are currently building a hempcrete house in County Down.

Owen Lewis became Chief Executive of the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland in January 2009.

Qualified as an architect and a building services engineer, Owen Lewis has practised professionally in Ireland and Zambia and has taught in Ireland, Jordan, the USA, and for short periods in China and Germany. He co-ordinated many European Commission energy research and dissemination activities and has lectured in most EU Member States.

UCD Professor Emeritus of Architectural Science, Owen Lewis was responsible for Building Technology in the School of Architecture for many years, and director of the UCD Energy Research Group. He was elected Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture UCD in September 2001, and subsequently became Principal of the UCD College of Engineering, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. He was Bord na Mona Director for Innovation and R&D 2006-‘08.