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Demand reduction, heat networks and healing our homes
What if retrofit was seen as a societal tool for improving our lives? Sara, Jeff and Duncan talk about the potential of heat networks and learning from those who have ...
What makes for a successful retrofit? Evaluating what really matters with Lisa Pasquale
We spoke to Lisa about PAS 2035, how it can be improved, and some of the projects she has been evaluating over the last few years. Also, to anyone remotely interest...
Campaigning for Retrofit with ACAN and the NEF
We caught up with Aydin Dikerdem from the NEF and Sara Edmonds of ACAN to hear about their campaigns around retrofit and how they intend to collaborate to progress the...
Putting People Front and Centre with Jon Daley of Magenta Living Housing Association
An interview with Jon Daley talking all things normalising decarbonisation and sustainability discussions across a social housing organisation and putting the resident...
EnerPHit at Scale with James Traynor of ECD Architects
An interview with James Traynor of ECD Architects about retrofit, EnerPHit, Portsmouth's Wilmcote House project (the largest scale retrofit of its type, in its day), a...
Financing Retrofit with Rufus Grantham of Bankers without Boundaries (BwB)
Bankers Without Boundaries (‘BwB’), an innovator in finance, is a not-for-profit powered by former investment bankers to assist high impact projects that benefit the e...
Putting Retrofit Publications into Action with Barbara Lantschner
2021 has been the year of retrofit publications. We talk to Barbara Lantschner of John Gilbert Architects about their retrofit work and how they put these publications...
Embodied Carbon and the COP26 House
This week Rachael Owens, head of sustainability at BGY and coordinator at ACAN and Peter Smith of Beyond Zero Homes talk to us about all things embodied carbon and mov...
Fuel Poverty and a Just Transition with Alex Warren of The Wise Group
It's easy sometimes to forget the human element of fuel poverty, and whilst recent energy cost rises are an annoyance to the vast majority reading this post, they are ...
Smart Homes and the Internet of Things with Dane Ralston of IoPT
Internet of things company IoPT have been providing remote monitoring equipment to social landlords now for several years. We hear the benefits that this type of moni...
Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) with Sara Edmonds
Conversation with Sara, Dan, Jeff and Alex on the work that ACAN are doing and how we can look to a grassroots movement in promoting the retrofitting of our homes in a...
The Value of Communicating Well, with Dan and Alex from Everything is User Experience
Discussion with Jeff, Alex and Dan from User Experience is Everything on CoP26 and how communication is critical to how we progress sustainability and radical change i...
West Dunbartonshire District Heating and the Queens Quay Project with Morten Duedahl
The episode features lessons learnt from district heating and the work that West Dunbartonshire have been doing on developing heat networks.
Climate Change and Democracy with Kevin Albertson
Professor of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University Kevin Albertson makes the point that we can't put off the change that is required now for future generatio...
Low Carbon Heat Networks and Clean Air with Dave Pearson
Dave Pearson from Star Renewables talks about district heating during CoP26
Financing Retrofit at Scale, Green Neighbourhoods as a Service - Rufus Grantham at Bankers Without Boundaries
Bankers Without Boundaries (‘BwB’), an innovator in finance, is a not-for-profit powered by former investment bankers to assist high impact projects that benefit the e...
Climate Change and the Decade of Disruption with Kevin Albertson Professor of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University
Professor of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University Kevin Albertson makes the point that we can't put off the change that is required now for future generatio...
Build Once for the Future - President of the RIAS Christina Gaiger
Christina Gaiger is the current President of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) and is committed to the creative reuse of buildings, alongside th...
Redefining Productivity with Kevin Albertson Professor of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University
This week Professor of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University is giving us a concept or idea on economics the environment and climate change each day.
The Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) with Dr Jan Rosenow
Dr Jan Rosenow joins us on the first day of CoP26 to talk about the decarbonisation of our buildings and how we transition to zero carbon heating. The conversation inc...
CoP26 C& The Race to Zero with Bex Porter the Built Environment Lead in the High Level Champions Team
This week we are joined by Bex Porter who is the Built Environment Lead for the High-Level Champions TeamThe UN High-Level Climate Champions are spearheading the race ...
Danish District Heating with Morten Jordt Duedahl at the Danish Board of District Heating
Morten is the Business Development Manager at DBDH (Danish Board of District Heating) in charge of all activities in Western Europe.The DBDH is a Danish member organiz...
Passivhaus - Setting the Standard with Michael Jones at City of York Council
Conversation with Michael Jones, the Head of Housing Delivery and Asset Management at York City Council.Michael is the strategic lead for all asset elements of housing...
The Anthropocene Architecture School with Scott McAulay
This week I caught up with Scott McAulay, from the Anthropocene Architecture School.Scott is an architect who has been writing about climate change and the built envir...
The UK Energy Market with Professor Kevin Albertson
Discussion with Professor Kevin Albertson on the UK Energy Market and the causes of the current energy issues regards increased costs and supply, as well as some of th...
The Retrofit Challenge and PAS 2035 with Dr Peter Rickaby
Peter Rickaby qualified as an architect at Cambridge University and holds a doctorate in energy studies from the Open University. He worked in leading architectural pr...
CoP 26 - Climate Change and the Built Environment - United Nations Centre of Excellence with Scott Foster and Jenna Cramer
Interview with Scott Foster, who is the Director of Sustainable Energy at the United Nations Economic Council for Europe (UNECE), and Jenna Cramer who is Executive Dir...