The Team
See details below about HHP members involved with consultancy services. We also work occassionally in association with others outside HHP where appropriate.
Nick Martin
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Nick Martin (BEd), a founding Project member, has a unique experience and knowledge of energy efficient housing. He first became interested in the early 1990’s after acquiring a 25-acre site just outside the village envelope of Hockerton, in rural Nottinghamshire. Combining his interests in renewable energy and low impact developments he set to work on various concepts leading him to the earth-sheltered option. In the meantime he won the tender in 1993 to build the home of Prof. Brenda and Dr. Robert Vale, the UK’s first sustainable town house - an autonomous house with ‘net zero CO2’ emissions, of low embodied energy, deriving power from photovoltaic arrays and passive solar heating. Nick Martin was so convinced by many of the construction principles that he commissioned Dr. Robert Vale to design a rural hamlet of 5 earth sheltered sustainable dwellings, Hockerton Housing Project, to similar energy and environmental performance standards - autonomous and with ‘net zero CO2’ emissions. Nick supervised this self-build project from August 1996 to Sept 1998.
Nick Martin is now one of the most experienced eco-builders in the UK. He leads the project consultancy work, including new designs for ultra low energy housing, as well as being directly involved in new eco-building projects. More recently he has been involved with the design and build of HHP’s new eco-community building (the Sustainable Resource Centre) a pair of earth-sheltered homes in Hockerton, a single eco-home, an eco-barn conversion and many eco-retrofits (including involvement in the Nottingham Eco-House). He is currently developing a proposal for a 11 home ultra low energy scheme in Hockerton.
Simon Tilley (M Eng, C Eng, MIMechE)
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Simon joined the project in 1995, with a background in Mechanical Engineering. This included spending over two years in
His engineering skills have been put to good use in the project - He manages the HHP water & energy systems and a number of key HHP projects, including a DTI Domestic PV field trial (2002 to 2005) and Sustainable Hockerton’s 225kW community owned wind turbine. (2002 to 2010)
His main contributions to the on site business are:
- Managing Renewable Energy projects - Specifically medium scale wind
- Community engagement
- Planning application submissions
- Promoting applications at Council planning meetings
- On going management
- Technical consultancy (particularly for water and renewable energy systems)
- Technical tour guide
- Workshop facilitator
- Main external speaker for the group.
Previous outside environmental work includes Open University Associate Lecturer for the “Energy for a Sustainable Future” course and mentored his replacement for two years, VSO Course facilitator for technical volunteers. He is currently a director of Sustainable Hockerton Limited.
Simon has also been very involved with the design and build of HHP’s eco-community building (the Sustainable Resource Centre).
Simon combines HHP work with looking after three children (Luke, Naomi & Flo), climbing & painting.
Rob Cartwright
Rob (BSc, MSc) joined the project in 2009, with a past career in IT and Management Consultancy, but more recently in energy efficient housing. Working as a consultant for National Energy Services, Rob was responsible for the design, testing and accreditation of their RDSAP software, which underpins the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) for existing homes. On leaving National Energy Services in 2007, Rob joined the pioneering Green Homes Concierge Service (GHCS) in London; a London Development Agency funded service to enable home owners to make their homes more energy efficient. As a part of his role at GHCS, Rob designed their home assessment software, which enabled homeowners to see what improvement options were available for their home, and what savings could be achieved in emissions and fuel costs, both for each improvement measure individually and for a bespoke package of measures selected by the homeowner.
Rob is a qualified assessor for the Code for Sustainable Homes and an On Construction Domestic Energy Assessor, qualified to carry out new build SAP assessments. Rob also provides bespoke home assessment and advice services to enable homeowners to see how they can make their homes more energy efficient.