Blogs
Stories, updates and interviews as we progress towards a smarter transformation in the built environment.
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Accelerate to Zero Podcast: Changing the narrative around retrofit adoption
Throughout the series, we’ll spotlight each of the six working groups within the National Retrofit Hub, featuring various guest speakers and innovators from across the UK retrofit sector.
Accelerate to Zero Podcast: Developing retrofit skills with empathy and inclusivity
Throughout the series, we’ll spotlight each of the six working groups within the National Retrofit Hub, featuring various guest speakers and innovators from across the UK retrofit sector.
Accelerate to Zero Podcast: Delivering retrofit at scale
Throughout the series, we’ll spotlight each of the six working groups within the National Retrofit Hub, featuring various guest speakers and innovators from across the UK retrofit sector.
Accelerate to Zero Podcast: How to finance retrofit
Throughout the series, we’ll spotlight each of the six working groups within the National Retrofit Hub, featuring various guest speakers and innovators from across the UK retrofit sector.
Accelerate to Zero Podcast: Scaling up retrofit, episode two
Throughout the series, we’ll spotlight each of the six working groups within the National Retrofit Hub, featuring various guest speakers and innovators from across the UK retrofit sector.
Accelerate to Zero Podcast: Scaling up retrofit, episode one
Throughout the series, we’ll spotlight each of the six working groups within the National Retrofit Hub, featuring various guest speakers and innovators from across the UK retrofit sector.
BE Better: Speaking with Nicola Barclay about diversity, leadership and the built environment
Kirsty Duncan and Danielle Miller, speak to BE-ST's new board chair Nicola Barclay, about her career, challenges she’s faced, and her perspective on diversity, leadership and the changing landscape of the built environment.
BE Better: Martin Griffin
This week’s episode is with Martin Griffin, Principal Geotechnical Engineer at GHD.
BE Better: Empowering gender diversity and inclusion in the built environment with Aurora Tallon
Episode four features Aurora Tallon, Chair of Women in Property for Central Scotland, and Senior Architect at Baker Hicks, as our guest speaker.
BE Better: Navigating neurodiversity in construction with Richard Gwilt
Hosted by Heads of Stakeholder Engagement, Kirsty Duncan and Danielle Miller, this week’s episode is with Richard Gwilt, Digital Construction Manager at Kier who was diagnosed with autism as an adult.
BE Better: Increasing representation of ethnic minorities in construction with Radiant and Brighter
Kirsty Duncan and Danielle Miller, this week’s episode is with Co-Founders of Radiant and Brighter – a community interest company promoting diversity through education, inspiration and changing perceptions, Pheona and Micheal Matovu.
BE Better: Emily Carr on gender and EDI in construction
Hosted by Kirsty Duncan, Head of Stakeholder Engagement, the first episode is with Emily Carr, Design Manager at Kier North & Scotland and former Vice Chair of BE-ST's Change Makers.
More Insulation, but less Embodied Carbon: finding the balance | Lessons from the Accelerate to Zero Podcast
To reduce Operational Carbon, we need to reduce heat loss and increase our building fabric performance, but we can’t continue to source materials at the expense of our environment.