Marie-Louise Schembri

Marie-Louise is an architect and energy expert, specialising in intra-disciplinary collaborations across our projects, from buildings to city masterplans.

Marie-Louise started her industry journey as an architecture and design management practitioner. After 5 years she qualified as an environmental engineering consultant and worked in a number of European cities, with a focus on sustainable masterplanning, energy and carbon, dynamic thermal modelling and environmental certification. She joined Hilson Moran in 2012 and has since successfully delivered some of Hilson Moran’s most sustainable projects, including a zero carbon residential-led masterplan in Bermondsey, an EPC A for the Grade II listed 30 Grosvenor Square, and CO2 reductions in excess of 50% at Royal Albert Dock and 30 Broadwick Street. She continues to lead a number of R&I initiatives about residential overheating and operational carbon, modular design, community creation in tall buildings and environmental parametric design.

Marie-Louise was technical advisor to several planning authorities in the UK and France and for the Carbon Challenge (Homes England). She authored the Health Technical Manual HTM 07-07 for the UK Department for Health (2013) and has contributed to a number of industry publications and regularly speaks and blogs on sustainability and health aspects of the built environment.

Marie-Louise is a graphical illustrator, a holiday hiker and is actively involved in local community groups in her area to improve community involvement in placemaking and air quality.