Dr. Jon Stinson leads the Environmental and Sustainability Team within Okana Global. He works both at the strategic as well as applied level, and specialises in sustainable strategies, as-designed computational building performance assessments, and as-built in-situ building performance and post-occupancy evaluations.

Jon has worked, researched, and taught in the fields of sustainable architectural technology, building physics, and human factors since 2005. He previously led industry-focused applied research projects for the Scottish Energy Centre at Edinburgh Napier University’s Institute for Sustainable Construction and was managing director at Building Research Solutions for three years, which merged with Okana in 2023.

During his career, he has spoken, presented, and published on the topics of sustainable design and energy efficiency retrofit. Most notably, he was one of the founding researchers for RetrofitScotland.org and delivered data, analysis, and narrative for Historic Environment Scotland Retrofit Technical Papers and Refurbishment Case Studies; delivered the retrofit strategy to the Korea Energy Economics Institute; and the first online Scottish Public Sector Energy Benchmarking Tool.