Nicola Carniato
Nicola is working as the Director in our Cambridge office, overseeing all the regional and projects in the Cambridgeshire region. He is a long-standing member of AKT II where he has spent 14 years in our London office before moving to Cambridge last year.
Nicola has worked on a number of schemes spanning across several sectors and involving the complex redevelopments of functioning buildings and master plans, being able to balance the challenges of buildability, phasing and existing constraints with the aspiration of efficient and flexible new build typologies.
His academic education in both civil and mechanical engineering makes him a unique figure at AKT II, with expert knowledge across a breadth of disciplines particularly with regards to Material Science. For this reason, he also covers an important role in the London office giving technical supports to design teams involved in challenging projects.
Nicola also leads AKT II’s sustainability agenda, working with the wider team to cover bespoke research with material suppliers including timber and cement replacement strategies, as well as designing in-house software to calculate embodied carbon across a range of scenarios. Nicola is regarded as a leading industry expert in sustainability and has been invited to present at a range UK universities and institutions.
Together with the sustainability agenda, he is also involved in research projects to develop offsite manufacturing technologies with lead contractors. He is often invited to take part in conference organised by the offsite construction hub and by FutureBuild. Offsite construction is closely linked to the sustainability agenda.