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Jun 2023
26m 17s

Beyond Sustainability

DesignIntelligence
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James Middling is the Global Built Environment Sector Leader for Mott MacDonald, with responsibility for Mott MacDonald’s global Built Environment sector strategy and the growth of services in target markets. This includes responsibility for global building practices that, when combined, contain over 2,900 professional staff. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, he talks about the price paid by the natural environment because of the built environment, the difference between sustainability and regenerative design, and his ideas about how we can continue to enhance society while simultaneously restoring the natural environment.

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