Martha Lewis

Martha Lewis is Head of Materials at Henning Larsen, where she established a material database detailing healthy, ethical, and environmentally tenable materials and has launched the carbon literacy course, “Unboxing Carbon”. Formerly, as a member of the Buildings as Material Banks shareholders network, Martha worked to establish an EU material passport. She is currently involved in establishing a European building material declaration. Martha represents the Danish Association of Architectural Firms in the CEN350 Committee, where she aims to establish Circularity Standards. In 2016, she participated in the advisory team for the Danish EPA’s ‘Undesirable Substances in Sustainable Buildings’ group and has published several conference papers on hazardous content in Danish and Nordic building products. She has been recognised with Building Green’s ‘Sustainable Element’ person of the year prize and holds a MArch in Architectural Design and a BA in History.