Part two of our series on shading, this time with a return appearance from Tom Dollard of Pollard Thomas Edwards who joined us in January 2023 to talk about lazy thinking.

Ostensibly, this time we met to talk about the Good Homes Alliance design guide for shading, as a follow-up to December's episode with Zoe De Grussa. 
 
On reflection we realised that the guide does a good enough job without us disecting it, so we spent more time discussing why such a guide is necessary, how the industry needs to change, and why it’s struggling to do so (culture, economics, and politics…the usual).

Content warning: it is a very rambling episode but in spite of its very loose sense of direction the conversation does cover a lot.  The warning is just because we only really talk about shading 20 minutes in, so heads-up if you read this before you start listening.

Also, it’s a very UK-heavy discussion because those were the conditions in which the research was created, but they’re pretty-much analogous for a great deal of Ireland, North America, and probably great swathes of Europe too. 

Please check the link below, download the PDF, read it, and share it - it’s a brilliant piece of work.

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