Carmel Van Ruth

Facilitator

Carmel is a registered Architect and passionate advocate for good design.

Carmel has close to 30 years of experience; from local and overseas private sector practice delivering a wide range of project types and scales; to the public sector where she has worked for nearly two decades supporting the work of Government Architects in Western Australia.

Carmel has significant experience in chairing, participating, and advising on design review processes for the State and Local Government. Having led the Office of the Government Architect contribution to developing the State’s DesignWA Stage One suite of state planning policies, including State Planning Policy 7.0 Design of the Built Environment (SPP 7.0) she is able to apply her in-depth understanding of the policy to projects of all types.

To assist in leveraging the best long-term value from public projects Carmel works to embed good design across the life of a project, providing strategic advice during early project definition and procurement stages of proposals and improving project "readiness" for later design review and approvals processes.