Dr Craig Jones

Dr. Craig Jones is a Principle Associate at Bristol-based energy efficiency company, Sustain. He is considered as one of the leading figures on embodied carbon assessment (carbon footprinting) and has developed the UK’s most comprehensive water footprint calculator.

Craig previously worked at the University of Bath where he created the embodied energy and carbon database for building materials, known as the ICE database, which has been used by over 12,000 people around the world. He provided data to footprint the construction of the London 2012 Olympics and tailored an embodied energy and carbon database for the $22 billion Masdar city in Abu Dhabi, which aspires to be the first zero carbon, zero waste and car free city. Dr. Craig Jones gained his PhD by the exceptional and highly rare route of publication, which involved publishing 9 academic articles on the topic of embodied carbon and life cycle assessment. Craig continues to push the boundaries of knowledge and innovation in the world of carbon and water footprinting.