Joshua Thomas is Head of Built Environment and Urbanism – Technical at Connected Places Catapult. He oversees technical oversight and shapes strategy across Innovate UK and partner-funded programmes that aim to improve how places are planned, designed, built and managed. This includes a portfolio of innovation programmes spanning the Public Realm Innovation Lab, Collaborative Infrastructure Innovation (i3P), Digital Construction, Strategic Planning and Industrialised Construction – bringing together people, data and technology to support better outcomes for stakeholders across the built environment.
He is an ARB-registered architect with experience across all RIBA workstages, spanning architecture, urban design and landscape. He has worked at architectural practices including Hawkins\Brown and Studio Egret West on projects such as the Beecroft Building at the University of Oxford, the Canada Water Masterplan for British Land and AustralianSuper, and the Manchester Mayfield and Lewisham Shopping Centre masterplans for Landsec.