Career
He has also taught at Schumacher College. He worked for over twenty years in agricultural buildings research at the North of Scotland College of Agriculture"s Scottish Farm Buildings Investigation Unit before joining the Robert Gordon University in 1983 as Head of the School of Construction Management, Property and Surveying. At the Robert Gordon University he acted as Assistant Principal, Dean and Reader where he established the Centre for Environmental Studies in 1994 and the first ever Master of Science in Ecological Design.
He has academic qualifications in building technology and philosophy.
He was awarded an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1998 for his services to Scottish Natural Heritage and to the Environment.