Ana Rute Costa

Is the course leader of the BA (Hons) Architecture at Lancaster University, chartered architect and certified Passivhaus Designer, fostering to create dynamic links and knowledge exchange between academia and industry.

Her main research focus on accelerating material reuse in construction trough material passports, reducing the whole life carbon and enabling circular economy.

She is also an educational researcher with a strong specialism in learning and teaching spaces. Her research focuses on analysing the impact of the built environment in teaching and learning through ethnographic and visual research methods.

She see the world as a big house that we all need to look after; together we can make a change and contribute to a better built environment.