- Milton Keynes Development Corporation piloted small energy saving developments prior to the early 1980's
- subsequently designated a 250 hectare mixed use energy conscious development area
- Principal was team leader of 4 years Government funded research
- new landscape techniques to improve shelter, microclimate and energy conservation for new developments
- resultant Energy Cost Index initiative led on to the BREEAM assessment
- the Energy World exhibition of show homes, opened by the Prime Minister in 1987, demonstrated application of research and design
