Samantha's career has been built at the intersection of rigorous practice and original research. With a first degree in Building Surveying and a doctorate on the sustainable retrofit of existing buildings, she has spent two decades developing an understanding of buildings that goes well beyond inspection — encompassing how they perform, how they fail, and how they can be improved without compromising what makes them significant.

Alongside her doctoral research, Samantha has continued to publish and research at postdoctoral level, with work appearing in leading peer-reviewed journals and shaping professional thinking on historic building performance, energy efficiency, and carbon reduction. As Associate Professor in Building Sustainability at the University of the West of England, she occupies a rare position: a practitioner whose academic work directly informs her client advice, and whose client work directly informs her research.

Combining deep academic grounding with hands-on practice experience is unusual in surveying, and it changes the quality of advice available to clients. Samantha brings both — and that combination means she is able to draw on the very latest research and the hard-won lessons of complex projects in equal measure.

As founding director of SO Associates, she works with private clients, estates, institutions, and public sector bodies who need genuinely independent, expert counsel — not a report generated at volume. Whether the challenge is a listed building in uncertain condition, a sensitive retrofit, or the strategic management of a complex estate across Gloucestershire, the Cotswolds, or beyond, SO Associates brings the same thoroughness and honesty to every instruction.