Tim den Dekker

Tim is an Associate at FCBStudios and, alongside Ian Taylor, leads environmental research for the practice, identifying, developing and enabling research across sectors and projects. His expertise includes embodied carbon, circular economy, regenerative design, and his focus is on making truly net-zero carbon buildings.

Tim specialises in healthcare, education, life science and masterplanning, with an expertise in multi-faceted and complex projects.

His work includes the award-winning Chelsea Academy and Southbank Centre. Tim helped lead the Natural History Museum’s new collections, research and digitisation centre in Reading. Tim supported the estate transformation design work of the Imperial Healthcare Trust’s four London campuses, which included clinical programme design of St Mary’s Hospital. At Ulster University and for the Britannia masterplan, London, Tim provided project management support.

Tim works to help FCBStudios achieve its net zero carbon design ambitions. He helps lead the LETI Circular Economy group, works to increase low carbon material use in construction, founded The Embodied Carbon Group of industry experts which advises UK Government, and co-wrote the proposed Part Z embodied carbon Building Regulations.

Before joining FCBStudios in 2007, Tim worked as an actuary and management consultant.