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.
Debunking 3 Passivhaus myths: Comfort, complexity, and cost
Debunking 3 Passivhaus myths: Comfort, complexity, and cost.
Retrofit: What can we learn from Ireland?
Sara Edmonds, Head of Citizen Engagement and Gavin Johnston, Retrofit Impact Manager, went to Ireland to learn about the country's approach to retrofit.
Changemaker spotlight: Meet the Chair, Anna Stoll
Meet Anna Stoll, Chair of the Built Environment Change Makers and Decarbonisation Business Development Lead at Amey.
Demystifying AI in Construction: 5 Myths Debunked
Demystifying AI in Construction: 5 Myths Debunked.
Changemaker Spotlight: Finn Caldwell, delivering Passivhaus at a Tier 1 Contractor
Finn and BE-ST have worked together since 2020. Starting as one of our scholarship students, to taking our low carbon construction training early on back in 2021, to now working on some innovative Passivhaus projects together as part of a Tier 1 contractor.
Debunking the Silver Bullet Solution to climate change
There are a number of pervasive myths in construction and sustainability that are at risk of obscuring reality and stopping industry from taking action to reach net zero. We wanted to pick apart some of these common myths, in particular the belief that a single solution, the Silver Bullet, promises a swift transition to a net zero carbon built environment.
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.
Learn how to drive value from AI with The Data Lab – Q&A with Anna Ashton Scott
Artificial intelligence, more commonly referred to as AI, is already reshaping processes across industries like banking and finance, and marketing, and is set to become increasingly embedded in workflows across the board in the coming years.
Debunking 5 myths about hemp in construction
This sustainable material is widely used in many industries today such as the food, pharmaceutical, automotive and textile industries, with France now leading the way on using hemp for construction purposes.
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.
Changemaker spotlight: one of the UK’s youngest Passivhaus consultants
Meet Liam Kelly who, after finding an interesting way into construction, is now performing an interesting role in construction by working as a Sustainability Coordinator for Allies and Morrison.
Scholarship spotlight: Waste comprises 1/3 of construction sites' embodied carbon
One of BE-ST's scholarship students has conducted first-of-its-kind research on real on-site waste data, finding that one third of embodied carbon on a construction project can come from material wastage.