Director, PJ Carew Consulting
Paul Carew is the founder of PJC, Passive and Low Energy Design in Cape Town which has pioneered this as a standalone discipline in the South African construction industry over the last 12 years. He applies his B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering from Stellenbosch University, experience in Building Services in South Africa and at Buro Happold, London and his course work in Sustainable Energy Engineering at KTH Stockholm to particular South African climatic and socio-economic context.
Paul’s work in South Africa ranges from educational facilities to commercial buildings, and from building scale work through to master planning which includes the master planning of 2 new universities in South Africa – SPU and UMP.
His personal focus is cost optimisation of advanced passive and low energy concepts and methodologies to make them accessible to South African construction budgets. He has been a guest lecturer at various Schools of Architecture including Universidad Austral, Chile, the University of Cape Town and also at the Chair of Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design at the TU Munich. PJC has a strong academic and research bias to support appropriate innovative design input provided by his consultancy of 15 employees
