Dr Zachary Gill (EngD, CEng, CMVP, Level 5 Diploma in Retrofit Coordination) is a building performance expert, working and challenging the field of low-energy domestic buildings for over 12 years. He undertook his academically commended PhD research on the contribution of user behaviours to building performance with Buro Happold Engineers. Subsequently, he worked with Willmott Dixon Energy Services, pioneering performance-feedback approaches, in particular on their wide-scale social housing retrofit schemes.
In 2019, Zack established his building performance consultancy, SOAP Retrofit Ltd, to continue championing real-world measurement techniques and developing science-based retrofit approaches
Two core mantras drive Zack and SOAP’s work:
1. “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.”
2. “In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they aren’t”