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Episode Notes [03:47] Seth's Early Understanding of Questions [04:33] The Power of Questions [05:25] Building Relationships Through Questions [06:41] This is Strategy: Focus on Questions [10:21] Gamifying Questions [11:34] Conversations as Infinite Games [15:32] Creating Tension with Questions [20:46] Effective Questioning Techniques [23:21] Empathy and Engagement [34:33] Strategy and Culture [35:22] Microsoft's Transformation [36:00] Global Perspectives on Questions [39:39] Caring in a Challenging World Resources Mentioned The Dip by Seth Godin Linchpin by Seth Godin Purple Cow by Seth Godin Tribes by Seth Godin This Is Marketing by Seth Godin The Carbon Almanac This is Strategy by Seth Godin Seth's Blog What Does it Sound Like When You Change Your Mind? by Seth Godin Value Creation Masterclass by Seth Godin on Udemy The Strategy Deck by Seth Godin Taylor Swift Jimmy Smith Jimmy Smith Curated Questions Episode Supercuts Priya Parker Techstars Satya Nadella Microsoft Steve Ballmer Acumen Jerry Colonna Unleashing the Idea Virus by Seth Godin Tim Ferriss podcast with Seth Godin Seth Godin website Beauty Pill Producer Ben Ford Questions Asked When did you first understand the power of questions? What do you do to get under the layer to really get down to those lower levels? Is it just follow-up questions, mindset, worldview, and how that works for you? How'd you get this job anyway? What are things like around here? What did your boss do before they were your boss? Wow did you end up with this job? Why are questions such a big part of This is Strategy? If you had to charge ten times as much as you charge now, what would you do differently? If it had to be free, what would you do differently? Who's it for, and what's it for? What is the change we seek to make? How did you choose the questions for The Strategy Deck? How big is our circle of us? How many people do I care about? Is the change we're making contagious? Are there other ways to gamify the use of questions? Any other thoughts on how questions might be gamified? How do we play games with other people where we're aware of what it would be for them to win and for us to win? What is it that you're challenged by? What is it that you want to share? What is it that you're afraid of? If there isn't a change, then why are we wasting our time? Can you define tension? What kind of haircut do you want? How long has it been since your last haircut? How might one think about intentionally creating that question? What factors should someone think about as they use questions to create tension? How was school today? What is the kind of interaction I'm hoping for over time? How do I ask a different sort of question that over time will be answered with how was school today? Were there any easy questions on your math homework? Did anything good happen at school today? What tension am I here to create? What wrong questions continue to be asked? What temperature is it outside? When the person you could have been meets the person you are becoming, is it going to be a cause for celebration or heartbreak? What are the questions we're going to ask each other? What was life like at the dinner table when you were growing up? What are we really trying to accomplish? How do you have this cogent two sentence explanation of what you do? How many clicks can we get per visit? What would happen if there was a webpage that was designed to get you to leave? What were the questions that were being asked by people in authority at Yahoo in 1999? How did the stock do today? Is anything broken? What can you do today that will make the stock go up tomorrow? What are risks worth taking? What are we doing that might not work but that supports our mission? What was the last thing you did that didn't work, and what did we learn from it? What have we done to so delight our core customers that they're telling other people? How has your international circle informed your life of questions? What do I believe that other people don't believe? What do I see that other people don't see? What do I take for granted that other people don't take for granted? What would blank do? What would Bob do? What would Jill do? What would Susan do? What happened to them? What system are they in that made them decide that that was the right thing to do? And then how do we change the system? How given the state of the world, do you manage to continue to care as much as you do? Do you walk to school or take your lunch? If you all can only care if things are going well, then what does that mean about caring? Should I have spent the last 50 years curled up in a ball? How do we go to the foundation and create community action?…
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Zero Ambitions is a consultancy and weekly podcast about sustainability and the built environment. We find interesting and experienced guests who know what they're talking about, usually to discuss how we navigate the complexity of decarbonisation and sustainability in the built environment and its many related sectors. The success of the podcast has seen it grow into a consultancy, Zero Ambitions Partners. The consultancy works with blue chip clients, public sector institutions, and niche-market innovators that operate in the built environment, advising about the development and delivery of sustainability strategy and how it should be communicated. Hosted by Jeff Colley (Passive House Plus), Dan Hyde (Everything is User Experience) and Alex Blondin (Everything is User Experience).
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Zero Ambitions is a consultancy and weekly podcast about sustainability and the built environment. We find interesting and experienced guests who know what they're talking about, usually to discuss how we navigate the complexity of decarbonisation and sustainability in the built environment and its many related sectors. The success of the podcast has seen it grow into a consultancy, Zero Ambitions Partners. The consultancy works with blue chip clients, public sector institutions, and niche-market innovators that operate in the built environment, advising about the development and delivery of sustainability strategy and how it should be communicated. Hosted by Jeff Colley (Passive House Plus), Dan Hyde (Everything is User Experience) and Alex Blondin (Everything is User Experience).
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1 Can we address the decarbonisation of homes by focusing on health? With Jenny Danson (Healthy Homes Hub) 1:06:04
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Can we address the decarbonisation of homes by focusing on health? That's the mission that Jenny Danson has set for herself in establishing Healthy Homes Hub , and it's a question that manages to subvert Betteridge's Law of headlines , too. Healthy Homes Hub is a network, built around an online platform, that's dedicated to transforming the way people experience social housing, and its environmental impact, by creating healthier housing environments. Comprising a series of eight dedicated hubs that cover everything from policy and finance, to retrofit and air quality, the platform enable easy access to important information, insights, and thought leadership. Jenny has over 25 years of experience in social housing, as a supplier and client-side, driving innovation, delivery and improving lives so she knows what she's talking about. The project was borne of a frustration with seeing time and effort wasted as people across the sector carry out the same kinds of work, repeatedly, starting from scratch when they could share resources and pool experience. In a sector where capacity is in short supply this time could be easily put to better use. We talk through the challenges faced by the sector and how a focus on people and health can be used to drive us towards delivering on decarbonisation targets, but train our attention on outcomes for the people living in the 'building assets' not just the performance of the fabric and technology that comprises their home. While it's explicitly aimed at the social housing sector, the platform offers a wealth of information resources and sharing of experience that could be useful far beyond the provision of social housing. Notes from the show The Healthy Homes Hub website Jenny on LinkedIn Healthy Homes Hub on LinkedIn Operational excellence in social housing - a roundtable readout Those ventilation papers that Jeff mentioned Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality in Part F 2006 Homes (BD 2702) by S. McKay, D. Ross, I. Mawditt, and S. Kirk (2010) Occupant Interactions and Effectiveness of Natural Ventilation Strategies in Contemporary New Housing in Scotland, UK by Tim Sharpe, Paul Farren, Stirling Howieson, Paul Tuohy, Jonathan McQuillan **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper website) Jeff , Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Innovating and maturing: Loco Home Retrofit is an "emerging" retrofit one-stop-shop, with co-founder Chris Carus 1:08:28
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Joining us on Zero Ambitions this week is Chris Carus co-founder of Loco Home Retrofit , a Glasgow-based 'emerging one-step shop'. Loco Home Retrofit is a retrofit operation that's most interesting for its approach to developing a viable retrofit offer, focused on building trust in communities and with its supply chain as a means to catalysing the decarbonisation of our homes (or at least Glasgow's homes). And now, they're hiring, seeking to fill three positions (below) so if you know of anyone suitable please share the ads: Marketing and community engagement manager Technical manager Innovation programme manager As much as anything else, we love how they think about the retrofit challenge. Their considered approach to building a proposition and a method is what has really sold us, possibly because it resonates with our UX-focused approach to everything, but mainly because it seems to make sense. Notes from the show The Loco Home Retrofit website Chris on LinkedIn Loco Home Retrofit on LinkedIn All three job ads , again Chris's interview with BE-ST after winning the Gamechanger award at the Accelerate to Zero Awards 2023 Designing an ‘optimal’ domestic retrofit programme by Aaron Gillich et al (2017) – The paper Chris couldn't remember the name for Loco Home Retrofit's 2023/24 impact report detailing their innovation efforts to date Research Report - The right time for heat pumps in retrofit (Alan Clarke for Passive House Trust) – the other paper that Chris and Jeff reference **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper website) Jeff , Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Eliminate construction waste – Loop Your Spare instead: circular thinking and platform technology that reduces the cost of construction for everyone, with Jay Stuart 1:13:11
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The first episode of January 2025 marks the long overdue, first appearance of Jay Stuart , a long-time friend and colleague of Jeff and a firm fixture of the green building scene in Ireland. Jay joined us to talk about his latest project: Loop Your Spare . It’s a SaaS platform designed to match 'spare' construction materials with projects that need them on other sites before they have a chance to be classified as waste. It’s a concept that could largely eliminate the concept of waste and minimise the need for recycling in construction by enabling materials to remain in their highest-value states, thus retaining their value and mitigating the need to put them through all of the (ultimately destructive) processes involved in recycling. While we’re looking to Ireland in this specific case the issues are universal and the solutions should be able to cross borders with relative ease. It’s really an episode about smart thinking, with specific reference to a bunch of the projects Jay has worked on in the past and what’s coming up in the future. We've wanted to get Jay on for ages because he’s an innovative and unconventional thinker who simplifies complex challenges in accessible and unexpected ways. He’s also massively experienced, having lectured at University College Dublin’s School of Architecture, worked with leading Irish construction businesses like Ecofix and D/RES, and worked as a government advisor to name just a few things. Also, it’s an episode that continues the conversations from last year’s episodes with Chris Clarke and Don’t Waste Buildings and their calls to do something about egregious construction waste in the UK. Notes from the show The Loop Your Spare website Jay Stuart on LinkedIn Loop Your Spare on LinkedIn Email Loop Your Spare here **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper website) Jeff , Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Speeding up external wall insulation installation and preparing a retrofit start-up for scale, with Max Bloomfield (VundaHaus) and Alex Whitcroft (KIN; VundaHaus) 1:11:18
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What's it like trying to scale a retrofit start-up? This episode welcomes Max Bloomfield and Alex Whitcroft , two of the folks from VundaHaus , to talk about their product, its ongoing design and development, and their preparations to scale the business as they raise funds from investors. VundaHaus designs and manufactures a rapid-fit insulation solution for external wall insulation (EWI) of residential homes. It's a a sophisticated off-site, MMC, insulation jigsaw that’s been developed to make the logistics of installation much easier than traditional EWI. There's more to the story but you can listen to that on the episode. Notes from the show The VundaHaus website The KIN website Max Bloomfield on LinkedIn ; email Max here Alex Whitcroft on LinkedIn ; email Alex here The TransformER project **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper website) Jeff , Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Experiments in low-carbon retrofit for a high-status building (with a basement), with Natalie Black (Enbee Architecture + Design) and Toby McLean (Allt Environmental Structural Engineers) 1:22:39
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This week's episode is all about the lessons learned in carrying out a low-carbon retrofit. Natalie Black ( Enbee Architecture + Design ) and Toby McLean ( Allt Environmental Structural Engineers ) joined us to talk through their experiments and experiences on the renovation of a derelict house in Muswell Hill, London that was shortlisted for the Architects Journal Retrofit and Reuse awards this year. This is a project that could easily be misrepresented as a Grand Designs-style endeavour that's only representative of what you can do if you've got loads of capital and capacity, but that wouldn't be fair. This project should really be seen as an example of what you can achieve when you've got loads of capital and the capacity to experiment. The lessons learned here aren't going to solve the housing crisis but they can contribute to resolving the climate crisis, and this is what's motivating our guests. Like many of our listeners, Natalie and Toby are built environment professionals who have become increasingly driven to change how they work by the dawning realisation that the climate crisis is upon us. We also discuss whether you can actually have a low-carbon basement. Links for the PhD applications are below too. Notes from the show Natalie Black on LinkedIn The Muswell Hill low-carbon house The Enbee Architecture + Design website The Allt Environmental Structural Engineers' website Natalie's LinkedIn post about low-carbon basements Enbee's 12-minute diary film about the Muswell Hill project Enbee's short film (under 2 mins) about the Muswell Hill project Natalie's blog about her work PhD #1 - Balancing Supply and Demand: Developing a Net Zero Energy Framework for Difficult-to-Retrofit Buildings in Nottinghamshire Nottingham Trent University deadline 8th Dec, start Apr 2025, Led by: Dr Orla Williams (UoN), Co-Supervisors: Dr Kate Simpson (NTU) and Prof Richard Bull (NTU) ; Community Supervisor(s): Phil Berrill (Nottinghamshire County Council) , Chris Beattie (Inspire) PhD #2 - Sustainable Construction UK: Investigating the UK construction industry’s culture in relation to meeting long-term social, economic and environmental goals Nottingham Trent University, deadline 14th Feb, start Sep 2025, led by Prof Gavin Killip and Dr Ani Raiden PhD #3 - Re-imagining energy retrofit and home adaptation to deliver safe and resilient homes during interconnected energy, health, housing and climate crises Nottingham Trent University, deadline 14th Feb, start Sep 2025, led by myself with Dr Penelope Siebert and Prof Rowena Hill **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper website) Jeff , Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Why we need to tell better stories about the built environment, with Liz Male (LMC) 1:15:35
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Our guest, Liz Male has been on our radar for a while. She is a figure who has been working in the construction sector since the 1990s, an ally to the sustainability sector, a great communicator, and an experienced thinker. When we met earlier in the year we talked about a lot of things, but the consistent theme of our conversation was 'why we need to tell better stories about the built environment'. That said, we kept our powder as dry as we could and moved on to discuss when we might be able to get her onto the podcast to talk about it from the ZAP platform. We get a lot into the chat. Of particular interest is the historical perspective that Liz can offer. A lot has changed since Koyoto Hope you enjoy it as much as we did. Notes from the show Liz Male on LinkedIn Liz Male Consulting Ltd website (LMC) website LMC on LinkedIn National Energy Foundation **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper website) Jeff , Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Don't Waste Buildings, which means retrofitting them and building them better. With Leanne Tritton (Ing Media), Will Hurst (Architect's Journal), and Richard Nelson (Abyss Global) 1:25:56
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Apologies for the delay, the lost podcast has been returned and is ready for release. ' Don't Waste Buildings ' should be a straightforward proposition. It seems obvious. Especially so in the face of the climate crisis. Unfortunately, the business of the built environment is not yet on board completely. Our guests for this episode are the founders of UK-based campaign group Don't Waste Buildings , Will Hurst ( Architects Journal ) Leanne Tritton ( Ing Media ), and Richard Nelson ( Abyss Global ). They're a group who are seeking to remedy this challenge by pressuring government and persuading business to both do better. They're doing some really interesting work and they're new, so they need support. Please note: the graphic we refer can be found here (about 15 minutes in). I'll update this reference with a link to the Passive House Plus article once it's published. Notes from the show Don't Waste Buildings on LinkedIn (the best starting point) The Don't Waste Buildings holding page (a proper website is imminent, so keep an eye on www.dontwastebuildings.com ) Will Hurst on LinkedIn Leanne Tritton on LinkedIn Richard Nelson on LinkedIn Zero Ambitions - Construction's embodied carbon problem: how do we incentivise retrofit over 'demolish and rebuild', with Joseph Kilroy (CIOB) The AJ article by Kunle Barker that Will refers to: Without architects’ close expert involvement, government plans to retrofit millions of homes will be prone to unintended consequences such as mould Something about that 'burning fossil fuels to save the planet' nonsense that Jeff was referring to Future Energy Scenarios 2023 Released , sadly he couldn't find the actual article he remembered He found this as well: Ability of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) to generate negative emissions The Indy Johar LinkedIn post that Will refers to LRB's James Butler article about Grenfell: ‘This much evidence, still no charges’ **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper website) Jeff , Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Performance guarantees, measuring what works, and EPC reform, with Steven Heath (Knauf Insulation) 1:27:43
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This week we're speaking with Steven Heath, technical director at Knauf Insulation (UK and Ireland) and a really interesting and experienced person in the sector. So while we had him, we ran through a bunch of our favourite hoary subjects: measuring performance, performance guarantees, and what we think about EPCs. Knauf is a firm that's done some really interesting work in all of these areas and has even managed to make headway with the UK state in getting them to think about the value of testing performance, with EPCs and whatever SHDF is called now (the state-driven money tap for decarbonising social housing). Notes from the show Steven Heath on LinkedIn Knauf Insulation's website The ZAP episode with Kate Crawford about HTC and the 'snug factor': A new way to measure performance, negative energy use, and learning from disaster zones, with Kate Crawford (KLH Sustainability) **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper website) Jeff , Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Sustainability, sufficiency, and sequestration – the language we use and what it means, with Lloyd Alter 1:08:21
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A long-overdue episode with friend of the show, Lloyd Alter, about a blog he wrote and his book "The Story of Upfront Carbon". We get into the language of sustainability, carbon, and lots of the words that are ubiquitous in this space (sustainability and the built environment, obviously). We get into the sustainability of travel, to some extent too, Lloyd's book: The Story of Upfront Carbon: How a Life of Just Enough Offers a Way Out of the Climate Crisis Buy it from the independent bookshop website (you can switch regions) You can also buy it from Amazon, but only if you really have no other option InnovateUK – Net Zero Heat Open Day A showcase of IUK innovation lab projects including Transform-ER Thursday 3rd October, online, 9am-12pm Register here Notes from the show "Sustainable design is dead, long live regenerative design!" from Lloyd's Substack, Upfront Carbon A sustainable architecture Google Images search A regenerative architecture Google Images search That absurd vertical forest building in Milan COP26: Sufficiency Should be First - Yamina Saheb We Have to Put Sufficiency First in a Low-Carbon World - Lloyd's old Treehugger blog about the SER framework ZAP episode 144 - “Use less stuff”: embodied carbon, value chains, and the potential for change in the Declaration de Chaillot. With Lloyd Alter (Carbon Upfront), Kelly Alvarez Doran (Ha/f Climate Design), and Will Arnold (The Institution of Structural Engineers) **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper website) Jeff , Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Developers can build sustainably and at scale, if they want to. With Nicola Cronin and Stephen O'Shea (Cairn Homes Plc) 1:11:20
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A wise woman once said: "sustainability is the doing, ESG is the talking about it". Today an Irish house-building giant has made a major move on Passive House — publishing a positioning paper and announcing the ongoing construction of over 1,700 homes to the standard. Joining us to talk about this are Nicola Cronin (Senior Sustainability Analyst) and Stephen O'Shea (Head of Sustainable Construction and ESG Reporting) . Rather than this being another episode about Passive House we're more concerned with why a massive housebuilder has chosen to build to the standard. In this case, the answer highlights the positive impact that corporate reporting – in this case ESG – can have on the practice of construction. Where we've often derided ESG factors as a corporate fig leaf, in this instance ESG factors have driven institutional change. Most importantly, the scale of this change clearly illustrates the massive impact that big developers can have. If they choose to try. In short, we're talking about how change is made and why change is made. Links are below. Notes from the show Nicola Cronin on LinkedIn Stephen O'Shea on LinkedIn Cairn Homes' Passive House positioning paper Cairn on LinkedIn Cairn Homes' 2023 sustainability report **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper website) Jeff , Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 How can we embed sustainable design into the construction process? With Mhairi Grant (Paper Igloo) 1:10:01
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Jeff invited Mhairi Grant , co founder of award-winning architectural practice Paper Igloo, to join us to talk about the challenges of ensuring that one's ideas for sustainable design actually make their way through to the construction phase. The subject was sparked by a conversation she and Jeff had about lessons learned from a flawed project (that we discuss) and what it takes to ensure that our best, or even just easiest ideas are delivered upon in the build phase. Usually, we'd think about specifying a project in a way that can resist value engineering, but sometimes the project can be scuppered by something as simple as an easily avoidable comprehension issue. Notes from the show Mhairi Grant on LinkedIn A link to Scotland's Passivhaus Consultation: Building Regulations: Determining the principles for a Scottish equivalent to the Passivhaus standard: Stage 1 consultation The Paper Igloo website Paper Igloo on Instagram The Passive House Plus feature on Mhairi's own home in Stirlingshire **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper website) Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Why is making UK homes more efficient so difficult? Leyla Boulton (Green Conservation; Financial Times) 1:06:44
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Why is making UK homes more efficient so difficult? So asked journalist Leyla Boulton earlier this year in the pages of the Financial Times. Seeing a retrofit article in the FT piqued our interest, even more so once we realised Leyla is a senior editor with an esteemed background in political and environmental reporting. She was reporting on Kyoto where no one cared. Since beginning her retrofit journey Leyla has become a campaigner and it's this that you'll hear as we discuss the mainstreaming retrofit for the able-to-pay market, an endeavour borne of her experiences delving into the retrofit sector motivated by efforts to make her own home more energy efficient. Typically we talk about the barriers to take up, a desperately unhelpful planning bureaucracy, poorly designed institutional support, hamstrung local authorities and councils, and the need to do better in designing a system that works. Do check Leyla's article if you can. In spite of the broad air of dismay at how difficult things are, she describes meeting lots of helpful and enthusiastic people who were hamstrung in their efforts. Notes from the show Leyla Boulton on LinkedIn Five Lessons from a Neighbourhood Campaign (FT, December 2023) - a free-to-read article in the FT on Leyla's campaign (the others are paywalled) Why is making UK homes more efficient so difficult? (FT, April 2024) The More in Common research at E3G webinar and slides (July 2024) Planning reform for retrofit of listed and conservation area homes - the public-facing report on our Green Conservation campaign's meeting of councils to share best practice on planning reform for retrofit (June 18 2024) Leyla and Anne-Marie Huby 's Green Conservation campaign website The Transform-ER project video on the plan to design a system that enables the retrofit sector to scale and upgrade one million homes a year by 2030 (Transform-ER stands for 'Transform. Engage. Retrofit.') Chris Procter's Climate Emergency Conservation Area Toolkit (direct DL link here ) **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper website) Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 What can we do about waste in construction? Diversion from landfill isn't enough and there's money to be made. With Chris Clarke (SCAPE) 1:05:50
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In the UK every day the construction industry produces enough waste to fill a football stadium. Rightly, former guest, Chris Clarke (SCAPE) has got a bee in his bonnet about construction waste and is making efforts to draw attention to the issue. He's not just concerned with the profligate use of resources and the impact on carbon emissions, it's the lackadaisical nature of the waste itself. Waste management accounts for £1.5BN of construction spending every year. In an industry that's operating on margins so tight that any kind of change can be seen to be prohibitively risky, it seems absurd that such a significant amount of waste is priced into every single large-scale project. But, while waste, accounting, reuse, circularity, and MMC are all concepts that have an important part to play, but most important is the front-end work that can be done to reduce waste at the point of design. Whichever way we look at it, when we're asked where we might find the money to drive the circular economy or reduce emissions, it would seem that there might be a simple answer. Even if the solution itself isn't so simple. If we're hoping for infrastructure changes that will make a significant contribution to net-zero efforts and generate revenue, it looks like we might have an easy-ish mark. Notes from the show Chris Clarke on LinkedIn ( chrisc@scape.co.uk ) Construction Waste Portal website SCAPE's approach to sustainability SCAPE - Building for Public Good: A Charter for Change - a policy/lobbying piece produced for the new UK government That Danish development with the recycled brick slips in Architect's Journal We Build Eco in the pages of Passive House Plus Chris's last appearance on Zero Ambitions Innovate UK's Circular Economy Innovation Network **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper website) Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Net zero neighbourhoods and financing change, with Cat Magill (Living Places) 1:10:55
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Something-like twelve months on from inception we thought we'd catch up with what's happening at Living Places , the multi-disciplinary, impact-focused consultancy co-founded by this week's guest Cat Magill . Where last year Rufus Grantham came on the podcast to tell us all about the organisation he was in the midst of founding, this year Cat joined us to tell us about what they've been up to. There was plenty to talk about, but in short, the finance part isn’t that easy. However, they're making progress and figuring out how to make it happen, and Cat tells us all about it. Notes from the show Cat Magill on LinkedIn Living Places website The West Midlands Combined Authority's outcome funding report : Creating a market for place-based outcomes Research about conversations with your neighbours: Do you listen to your neighbour? The role of block leaders in community-led energy retrofits The official evaluation paper about the first social housing decarbonisation demonstrator in which none of the projects delivered to schedule: Whole House Retrofit (WHR) and Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund Demonstrator (SHDF(D)) Here’s an article from Inside Housing about the same thing: Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund: majority of councils failed to retrofit single home by deadline Accelerating Net Zero Delivery , the UKRI paper that we refer to as being authored by PwC and Andrew Sudman (there were more authors) And some academic research that followed up on it: Climate policy as social policy? A comprehensive assessment of the economic impact of climate action in the UK Last year's episode with Rufus Dan's presentation about the Energiesprong Comfort Plan retrofit research on YouTube **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a website) Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Running a successful retrofit one-stop-shop isn't easy but it can be done, with Caroline Ashe Brady (KORE Retrofit) 1:16:22
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This week's guest is Caroline Ashe Brady of KORE Retrofit in Ireland, one of the objectively successful one-stop-shop retrofit providers to have emerged over the past few years. Caroline is a business leader who we’re a proper fan of, so apologies in advance for our ‘so Caroline please tell us, why are you so great’ style questioning. That said, you can trust us in this opinion, we’ve done the work with these guys. Caroline was happy to talk about their method, process, challenges and offer up some top tips for how to make it work in the sector, which should be valuable to anyone involved wherever they're based. KORE Retrofit is a business that is ambitious about doing better and has demonstrated that retrofit can be a commercial success. It's not easy, and no-one is perfect, but KORE is operating with a practical plan about how they’re going to do better, not just offering up words. Notes from the show Caroline on LinkedIn KORE Retrofit's website KORE Insulation's website **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a website) Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 The challenging life of a retrofit coordinator: problems with process, products, and performance, with returning champion Lisa Pasquale 1:13:50
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Returning champion Lisa Ann Pasquale rejoins us on Zero Ambitions to talk about dogs and retrofit. Mainly retrofit though. Informed by Lisa's experiences as a retrofit coordinator, technical lead at RetrofitWorks, and Technical Manager at The Retrofit Academy she knows an awful lot about the challenges faced by retrofit practitioners. Windows, ventilation, product information, and the inflexibility of insurance-backed guarantees all come in for a well-justified shoeing . Notes from the show Lisa on LinkedIn Lisa's video about her own home retrofit (it's brilliant) Lisa's first appearance: What makes for a successful retrofit (February 2022) RICS residential retrofit standard **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a website) Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way) **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 What should we do to get more women into retrofit? Well, we should get behind 'Her Retrofit Space', with Ellora Coupe (Her Own Space and now Her Retrofit Space) 1:29:10
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Returning champion Ellora Coupe joins us to talk about the recent report that Her Own Space has published about the place of women in the retrofit sector, which is heartening, insightful, and damning in equal measure. A great piece of work that everyone interested in the sector should heed. Perhaps more importantly, she's with us to promote the incoming launch of its professional sister network Her Retrofit Space, a network for professional women working in the retrofit sector. It's a network that she's created to fill an obvious cultural deficit and in her words "empower professional women to drive retrofit". It sounds brilliant. Finally, a deserving heads-up for Graphenstone as the first signed-up partner for Her Retrofit Space. Notes from the show Ellora on LinkedIn The Her Retrofit Space survey and sign-up web page Judith Leary Joyce – How you and your builder can save the planet (TEDx St Albans) (Judith is a member advocate of Her Retrofit Space) Katie Hart (also a member advocate of Her Retrofit Space and neuromarketing professional) The Her Own Space website The Her Own Space Facebook group **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a website) Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way) **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Building better performance: raising construction standards on site and in education, with Joseph Little (TUD) 1:22:39
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This week we're going by Joseph Little , Head of Construction & Building Performance in the School of Architecture, Building and Environment at TU Dublin. He joined us to talk about the journey he's been on leading the MSc in Building Performance over the last seven years, but we got into a lot more. Joseph has been deeply involved in the promotion of better building standards by measuring the performance of buildings for years. Not least with the five Breaking the Mould articles he wrote that Jeff published years ago, sounding the alarm on moisture, condensation, ventilation and a bunch of other issues. We get into all of it and tried to be mindful to keep it to a 'reasonable' length. I'm sure we'll have him back though. Notes from the show Joseph Little on LinkedIn BE-ST Fest Summit 2024 - The UK's biggest festival for a zero-carbon built environment, Wednesday 6th November 2024 The Built to Last case studies hosted on the Dublin City Council website Joseph's papers and articles on the TU Dublin Arrow repository This is A link to the Springboard web page for TU412 Postgrad Certificate in Building Performance open until the end of August 2024, apply during June to get best chance of a subsidised place; oddly, it'll only direct you there if you're in Ireland, so more info can be found here on the TU Dublin website Partial fill cavity wall: have we reached the limits of the technology? By Joseph Little Breaking the Mould 1 by Joseph Little Breaking the Mould 2 by Joseph Little Breaking the Mould 3 by Joseph Little Breaking the Mould 4 by Joseph Little Breaking the Mould 5 by Joseph Little Thermal bypass risks: A technical review (September 2022) , by Mark Siddall **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a website) Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way) **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Retrofit as a movement for social change (there's more to it all than fabric and finance), with Dan Hill (Dark Matter Labs) 1:13:09
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This week we're thinking about retrofit differently with Dan Hill from Dark Matter Labs (DML). Or rather, we're talking about retrofit's potential to become a movement for social change. In reality, retrofit is about much more than fabric and economics, it's about people and how they live. With that in mind we should be thinking much more about engagement. This is itself a massive challenge because thinking about people properly, as the users of a building, requires a massive shift in how retrofit practice is organised and enacted. Dan has 25 years of experience from working in housing and planning in senior roles at housing associations, Newham Council, CICs, and in a bunch of other consultative roles. We really enjoy talking about these subjects with him because he has gifted us different ways to thinking about the sector, even when we're talking through familiar territory. So, listen up, eh? Updated notes from the show Dark Matter Labs' published work on Retrofit DML on 'Community Powered Retrofit' Retrofit Reimagined Festival 2022 videos of sessions Retrofit Reimagined Festival 2023 website Retrofit Reimagined Festival 2023 videos of sessions Report on Feasibility for a Regional Retrofit Impact Fund, with a focus on Outcomes based financing with West Midlands Combined Authority and Partners Common Wealth report The Case for Community Energy Democracy Report on the embodied carbon of retrofit materials versus operational carbon A report on the concept of Embodied biodiversity from Expedition Engineering The reference about the 40% figure (fig 1.7) and the maritime trade in fossil fuels Notes from the show Dan Hill on LinkedIn The Dark Matter Labs website The 'People-First Retrofit' panel about the Energiesprong Comfort Plan research we did , held at Futurebuild 2024 That story about the Tory Minister who thinks swimming in sewage is good actually The Catalogue of Good Practices a hybrid green finance catalogue for the reconstruction of Ukraine The National Retrofit Hub website The Civic Square website The HEAL (Home Energy action Lab) Linktree page **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a website) Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way) **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Place-based hybrid finance to rebuild Ukraine and catalyse better building standards everywhere, with Iva Merheim Eyre (SMARTER4EU) 1:11:08
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This week we're joined by Iva Merheim Eyre from SMARTER4EU to talk about her recently published report the Catalogue of Good Practices , a document that details a variety of place-based hybrid finance models that have been used to rebuild and renovate homes in locations as wide-ranging as the postwar Balkan states to London's own Westminster. This is all part of a concerted effort to use finance to drive better building standards across the world, not just the EU, and there's a lot we can all learn. Notes from the show Iva Merheim Eyre on LinkedIn The Smarter Finance 4 EU website The Catalogue of Good Practices a hybrid green finance catalogue for the reconstruction of Ukraine Let's build green and elevate A call to action for municipalities to get in touch with SMARTER4EU **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a website) Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way) **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Peter Rickaby returns to ZAP: a lot of words about energy, retrofit, and natural building materials, all the way from South Africa 1:20:52
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Jeff and Dan are joined by Dr. Peter Rickaby again. We were due a catch up so we recorded the conversation because he's always interesting. Peter should need little introduction, so we'll just say he's our favourite retrofit expert (sorry everyone else) and our most frequent guest on the show. He's only returned to the pod, not to the UK. In principle he's migrated to South Africa and is supposed to be retiring, but that's not exactly worked out so far. He has made it to Johannesburg though. Bu, if you haven't encountered him before Peter is one of the heads behind PAS 2035 and Ireland's BER system, amongst many other achievements. Go back and check the earlier episodes too. We had planned to talk about his experiences with the energy situation in South Africa and what we might learn from it but, as ever, we meandered all over the shop covering all sorts: retrofit, natural building materials, heat pumps, fabric first, fabric fifth, novel recycling, embodied carbon etc. Past appearances Retrofit - Who do you trust? With Dr. Peter Rickaby (May 2023) Dr Peter Rickaby (part 1) on Retrofit, Heat Pumps, EPCs, PAS 2035, LADs, Climate Change, and everything in-between (June 2022) Dr Peter Rickaby (part 2) on Retrofit, Heat Pumps, EPCs, PAS 2035, LADs, Climate Change, and everything in-between (June 2022) The Retrofit Challenge and PAS 2035 with Dr Peter Rickaby (September 2021) **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way) **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 The UK has a weird relationship with heat pumps: under appreciated influencers, wild pricing, and bad vibes. With Andrew Sissons (Nesta) 1:21:03
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This week we're joined by Nesta's Deputy Mission Director, Andrew Sissons, to discuss his take on why the UK has such a weird relationship with heat pumps. It was inspired by an excellent Twitter thread on the subject that gained quite a bit of attention the other week. We talk through it all so you might as well listen, or just take a look at the thread, either way it should be interesting. Notes from the show Andrew Sissons on LinkedIn Nesta's website The Twitter thread: Why have heat pumps become a bit of a contentious topic in the UK? **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way) **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Building with straw on a continental scale and experiencing retrofit as a resident. With Cypren Edmunds (European Straw Building Association) 1:16:34
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The other week we had a chance to have a conversation with Cypren Edmunds, President of the European Straw Building Association about building with straw, experiences in retrofit, and the meandering path that led him to the green building trade. For us, it was a really interesting chat because we got to talk about how he got into greed building via sport, the music industry, and playing an active role in his community. The wasn't a built environment professional embarking on a curious diversion in a construction career, it's someone who did something else first and found their way into the building trade later in life, led by interest and making the most of the breadth of their experience. And we got to talk about music for a while, but we cut most of that out because we thought most of our listeners wouldn't be too into it. Notes from the show Cypren Edmunds on LinkedIn The European Straw Building Association (ESBA) website The European Straw Building Association (ESBA) on LinkedIn The Association of Straw Bale Building UK (SBUK) website The SBUK Members Directory The SBUK on LinkedIn That 80s Loadsamoney character on TV A map of straw buildings in the UK (database) A straw construction technical guide from The School of Natural Building Straw BIM **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way) **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 The energy performance of buildings matters, to me and EU and everyone we know, with Ciarán Cuffe (MEP) 51:04
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The Recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive is now enshrined in EU law, which has big implications for the built environment everywhere. Even the South East of England. To mark the occasion and get the lowdown on what this all means, we invited friend of the show Ciarán Cuffe back on to talk about it. For those who might not remember, he's the Irish Green Party MEP and Rapporteur to the EU who has been deeply involved in driving it through. And, as a qualified planner and architect he's a politician who really understands his brief. Notes from the show Ciarán Cuffe on LinkedIn Ciarán's own website A summary of the EPBD The Green Party and EFA's promo on the new law Ciarán's current slideshow on the law (on LinkedIn ) His appearance on Zero Ambitions Podcast last year **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way) **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 A new way to measure performance, negative energy use, and learning from disaster zones, with Kate Crawford (KLH Sustainability) 1:17:08
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Kate Crawford is a building nerd who is obsessed with measuring performance. She's currently, Technical Director at KLH Sustainability , a multidisciplinary consultancy working in the built environment. Kate has a very interesting background in terms of her experience and she's now working on a very fascinating project in which she's researching and developing a "Smart Meter Enabled Thermal Energy Rating (SMETER)" system that uses a new approach to measuring building performance and a different kind of metric for assessing it. The result has been something that they call "the snug factor", which is the heat-transfer coefficient of the building (Kate explains it all in the episode). The way they generate their heat-transfer coefficient has led to incredibly accurate estimations for energy use in a home. Notes from the show Kate Crawford on LinkedIn KLH Sustainability 's website The research Jeff mentions about low pressure showers using more water Real performance and the HEM Real performance and the SAP Kate's little (and excellent) graphic novel on her experience of aid work **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way) **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Designing for deconstruction using natural building materials. With Chloe Donovan (Natural Building Systems) 1:12:39
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This week we're talking about modular construction and Natural Building Systems with MD Chloe Donovan . Chloe is a really interesting character with a fascinating product that she's bringing to market. Unusually, she's a farmer who got into building and then found herself as an entrepreneur in the febrile world of modular building and MMC. We talk about all sorts, from the challenges of propagating a biogenic supply chain to the ever-contentious subject of calculating embodied carbon, and a little about what's going on in MMC. Notes from the show Chloe Donovan on LinkedIn Natural Building Systems website Natural Building Systems on LinkedIn **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote our day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way) **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Monitoring will make your buildings be worth more money, Utopi has proved it, with Falk Bleyl (CTO at Utopi) 1:20:21
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Up next we're speaking with Falk Bleyl , CTO at Utopi , about their sensor-based data platform technology. He describes it as an ESG platform which is true but it massively underplays the true value of what their product offers. Heads up, normally, we'll at least try to couch the conversation within a broader context but in this episode, we've barely bothered. We were content just to talk about the product, how it's deployed, and its impact precisely because the value it offers addresses things we talk about nearly every week. So we could be accused of having created an advertorial, but we don't care because it's not. In the most reductive sense, Utopi offers a glorified post-occupancy evaluation (POE) platform. They install sensors, monitor them, manage and interpret the data, and advise their clients on how to respond to what they learn. It is a service that is as relevant to the most red-in-tooth-and-claw capitalist landlord as it is an aspirant socialist housing provider. Utopi uses sophisticated monitoring and maintenance strategies to prove a direct cause-and-effect on the value of the building assets. This is massively important for a world where the public sector is instructed to copy the private sector and indulge political desires for market-based decision-making, whether it's more efficient in reality or not. Utopi's platform proves that efficiency pays, POE pays, and (tangentially) retrofit pays. Notes from the show Falk Bleyl on LinkedIn Utopi's own website **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way) **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 “Use less stuff”: embodied carbon, value chains and the potential for change in the Declaration de Chaillot. With Lloyd Alter (Carbon Upfront), Kelly Alvarez Doran (Ha/f Climate Design), and Will… 1:16:05
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Lloyd has been in Paris. He came back very enthused and excited by his experience there and wanted to communicate why to our listeners. “In the face of the climate emergency, a swift transition of the buildings sector is a direct requirement to achieve the goals set by the Paris Agreement”. Approximately, 1,400 people from 70 countries gathered in Paris for the Buildings and Climate Global Forum and the Declaration de Chaillot was the result Lloyd Alter , Will Arnold , and Kelly Alvarez Doran were there. The question is, what does this declaration mean? Will it actually have a real impact on the way we build, or is it just another bit of paper that will be quickly forgotten? This feels like a very positive sign because it’s pulling together the usually loose strands of how we appreciate the built environment and what needs to be done to make it work better for everyone in it, as well as the environment around us. Notes from the show Lloyd Alter on LinkedIn Kelly Alvarez Doran on LinkedIn Will Arnold on LinkedIn The UNEP page on the Declaration de Chaillot The Institution of Structural Engineers web page The Buildings and Climate Global Forum web page **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way) **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 What do we do about ‘the office’? A retrofit challenge we don't speak about enough. With Harry Browne and Séamus Guidera (RKD) 1:20:03
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This week we got into an area of retrofit that feels neglected: commercial space. It's a subject we definitely touch upon but never really get into , so in order to remedy that we're getting stuck in. First up is a conversation with architects Harry Browne and Séamus Guidera of RKD Dublin who came recommended to us by friend of the show Richard O'Hegarty . In a sector less driven by traditional sustainability issues, and more driven by hardcore commercial issues, it seemed right to start by speaking with folk who know their stuff. Harry and Séamus have been grappling with the big commercial questions around place of the office in the future and the renewal of these built environment assets, offering commercial clients the sort of strategic that hasn't been necessary in this sector for decades. Nowadays, asset owners are thinking about impact, in terms of how the building asset's use influences and interacts with its surroundings, how they can make offices more attractive places to be, not just providing serviceable desks. This evolving approach encourages engagement with tenants to plan for the future, incorporating changing use alongside changing climate, and how to make the renewal and retrofit process more efficient in terms of resource use and minimising waste. There's loads to get into. Too much. but this is a start. Notes from the show Harry Browne on LinkedIn Séamus Guidera on LinkedIn The RKD website **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way) **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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1 Fundamental problems in building design and how we manage thermal comfort, with Susan Roaf (Heriot-Watt; ICARB) 1:33:08
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We are delighted to bring you a conversation with Professor Emeritus Susan Roaf , of Heriot-Watt University this week to talk about a bunch of fundamental problems in building design and the management of thermal comfort. She is a wonderful guest and we're looking forward to having her back. Originally, we planned to talk about her article COP 28: Net zero buildings by 2050? You have got to be joking! a well-judged critique of the outcomes at the most recent COP but we meandered a bit more than expected, but we still managed to cover most of the issues she raises. In the end, we took in a shared colonial history and its influence on the way we approach managing thermal comfort, problems with architectural education, the flaws in solely thinking about decarbonisation of the grid as a panacea, problems with designing buildings have an over-reliance on technology, as well as her colourful and storied background. In some ways with could be considered a counterpart to last year's episode about thermal comfort with Huda Elsherfif and Andy Simmonds , so check that too if you haven't heard it already. Notes from the show Susan on LinkedIn Her article COP 28: Net zero buildings by 2050? You have got to be joking! Her book, Energy Efficient Building: A Design Guide **SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION** We don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs. Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page Jeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency ; Everything is User Experience Subscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too) Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront Join ACAN Join the AECB Join the IGBC Check out Her Own Space , the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way) **END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**…
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