Quinten Babcock
Environmental Manager, Facilities Operations, Estates Management, TfL
Quinten Babcock is the Environmental Manager for Transport for London’s Estates Management Directorate. As one of the founders of the BBP, TfL is committed to the principles of the BBP and working in partnership with both the public and private sectors to reduce carbon emissions and drive best practice.
Quinten joined Transport for London in 2006, and works in the Head Office Facilities Operations department’s Infrastructure & Sustainability team, providing leadership in energy & water management, building services infrastructure asset maintenance and waste & recycling.
Quinten chairs the BBP’s Sustainability Benchmarking Working Group, responsible for our Real Estate Environmental Benchmark outputs for industry. He also sits on CIBSE’s Energy Performance Group committee and is dedicated to improving the benchmarks available for the industry to improve both design and in use energy performance.
Quinten has a first class honours degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from Leeds University, and began his building services engineering career at Oscar Faber Engineering consultants (now AECOM) in 1999. He spent 5 years working within their Applied Research department working on updates to Building Regulations as well as standard project designs through the use of dynamic thermal modelling simulations, so is well placed to provide advice at both the design and in use stages of a building’s lifecycle.