Helen is an architect registered in the UK and has an MBA from the University of BC. She brings over 30 years of experience working on transformative solutions for the real estate and construction industries in Canada and around the world, and has become one of Canada’s leading advisors on innovative, low carbon construction policies, processes and technologies. She has also played an instrumental in coalescing British Columbia’s emerging timber technology ecosystem. She has been a member of the authorship team for both the CLT Handbook and Tall Wood Design Guide for Canada. She led the first State of Mass Timber report and data collection process for the federal government and continues to collect sector data and provide market to the BC government.  Currently, she is working with CSA Group to develop a national framework for circularity in the built environment. Helen sits on the BC Digital Construction Council and is a director of Building Transformations (formerly CANBIM). She also serves on BCIT’s Mass Timber Education Advisory Board and the University of Victoria’s Green Engineering Advisory Board.