5 minutes with … Diego Padilla Philipps at WSP

2021-03-19T07:30:00

Associate director at WSP says growing up visiting Peruvian building sites and working in Haiti after the earthquake have shaped his outlook on life

What has been your biggest career challenge to date?

I think my biggest challenge has only started, and that is the decarbonisation of the built environment and WSP’s net zero strategy. The climate emergency is the single most important challenge of our time, both personally and professionally. The influence I have as a designer is crucial. The carbon reductions I can achieve in buildings are more than those I would generate as an individual in several lifetimes

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