Gordon has worked in industry and academia in building services engineering for many years. Gordon was programme leader at Northumbria University, where he taught across the full range of mechanical services and spent 12 years at Mott MacDonald building an MEP team and progressing MEP sustainable design and management services.
Sustainability has been a keen focus for Gordon over the last twenty-five years leading to numerous publications including school design guidance for the Scottish Government.
Gordon and colleagues researched the use of BREEAM in healthcare and that led to sustainable assessment development work in the UK, Abu Dhabi and Egypt.
Gordon also completed the first BREEAM assessment in Iceland.