Professor Mark Gillott, Chair in Sustainable Building Design, has over 27 years’ experience in low-carbon sustainable energy technologies and sustainable building design. He is the research and project manager for the multi-award winning Creative Energy Homes low/zero carbon housing project, which incorporates a low-temperature heat network and an electricity micro-grid. These community energy systems utilise and demonstrate solar and heat pump technologies, community energy stores and demand-side response technologies. Through this project, he has designed, constructed and monitored the performance of some of the UK’s first ‘Code for Sustainable Homes’ level 4 and 6 (zero carbon) homes. He was the lead academic on the Innovate UK’s GBP 6 million project SCENe, Sustainable Community Energy Networks. Professor Gillott is project managing the GBP 3 million UK Energy Research Accelerator Community Energy Demonstrator at the Nottingham Trent Basin sustainable housing development of low-carbon homes. At the Trent Basin, new community energy business models are being trialled through the Active Building Centre funded ‘Behind the Meter Project’. Professor Gillott’s work is widely published and he has presented numerous papers relating to it at national and international conferences. He has also presented his research work internationally and nationally through television/radio media (e.g. BBC and SKY News), and his work has been exhibited at the National Science Museum in London.