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The Building PodcastMark talks to Brad PilgrimSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeEnergy management and carbon reduction are becoming increasingly important to designers, operators and maintainers of buildings. The costs of operating a building are a significant part of the lifetime cost and the whole life carbon calculation for a building. Managing these, particularly in multi-occupancy buildings is a real challenge, dealing with variable demands on one side and changing tariffs and availability of supply and opportunity on the other. Mix in some old and ill-maintained plant and the challenges on the FM team are considerable.Brad Pilgrim operates Parity from Tor...2025-08-0854 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Clive DickinSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeScaffolding is ubiquitous within the construction industry. A true temporary structure that is found on virtually all building sites that requires designing and erecting accurately and professionally. Clive Dickin is the Chief Executive Officer for the National Access and Scaffolding Confederation (NASC) and heads an organisation that represents over 80% of the companies in the sector.Listen up to how Clive leads NASC to drive professionalism in the sector, undertaking audits to validate the behaviours and performance of his member companies, coupled with training to ensure that staff are competent an...2025-08-0544 min
The Building PodcastMark talks to Peter WoodersSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe UK plans to have over 50GW of solar capacity installed by 2030. The global solar Council is projecting 8TW of solar capacity in the same timeframe. The UK accounts for just over half of one percent, yet we are part of a holistic worldwide industry with global supply chains, prone to geopolitical risks.Peter Wooders founded Geneva Platform to examine and promote solutions to international supply chain risks. Geneva Platform works for a wide variety of Governments and other organisations to understand supply chain risks. Peter is their expert on r...2025-08-0158 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Keith BlizzardSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe complexity of construction projects, the changes that can happen during a project and the challenges of communication between the parties means that the sector is blighted with disputes. Many of these disputes are resolved between the parties through talking and leadership, however a pernicious few require external help to resolve. The 1996 Housing, Grants and Regeneration Act introduced adjudication into the industry as a relatively quick and economic way that parties could obtain an independent answer to their disputes that carried the weight of statute.This procedure is now ne...2025-07-2356 min
The Building PodcastMark talks to Claire GardnerSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe solar sector has two big people challenges to solve if it is to deliver on its opportunity to become a major generator of the UK’s energy mix and support a “Just Transition” to a low carbon, low cost energy grid. The first is the sheer number of skilled people that it needs to design, deliver and maintain the infrastructure and the second is the diversity of thought that is needed to overcome the many challenges that it will encounter in delivering this infrastructure. As Einstein is oft quoted: “We cannot sol...2025-07-0944 min
The Building PodcastMark talks to Dave TattershallSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThis podcast is a solar podcast, exposing the opportunities and challenges associated with a significant roll-out of solar generation capacity across the UK. One of the key challenges in any rapid expansion of work is to ensure that the supply chain is up to the job. Supply chains can become stressed when there is insufficient product or people to design and install the new generation once it has bee procured.Dave Tattershall is the Chairman of the UK’s largest solar racking manufacturer and he is also the joint chai...2025-07-0846 min
The Building PodcastMark talks to Kamal RajputSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe solar sector is poised for significant growth to 2030, with a forecast £17Bn add to GDP and a compound annual growth rate in excess of 14%. This will only happen if the supply chain exists to deliver this work.Kamal Rajput leads on Strategic Business Development for TATA in the UK. He is the joint chair of the Supply Chain Steering Group for Solar Energy UK, the UKs solar trade association. This group has been formed to support industry actions from the recently published Solar Road Map and to promote grow...2025-07-0745 min
The Building PodcastMark talks to Ross GrierSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe Solar Taskforce, a joint UK Government and industry collaboration has just published it long awaited Solar Road Map. This charts how the UK will grow solar generation to over 50GW to meet the targets of clean power by 2030 and net-zero by 2050.Ross Grier is the Chief Investment Officer for Next Energy Capital, one of the large global investors in renewables. Ross was on the Taskforce, ensuring that the voice and requirements of investors was paramount at all times. His interest is ensuring that targets are fundable and that inv...2025-07-0450 min
The Building PodcastMark talks to Ben FawcettSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe Solar Taskforce, an industry / Government collaboration has been in existence since May 2023, working with both Governments to see how solar generation can be rapidly deployed to support the de-carbonisation of the electrical grid and the UK’s statutory net-zero target for 2050. I have been privileged to serve on this taskforce with many of the industry’s big hitters as we have identified blockers and solutions, with our partners at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and co-authored the Solar Road Map, which was recently published.These podca...2025-07-031h 02
The Building PodcastMark talks to Simon RichardsSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeSolar energy represents the most accessible form of renewable energy generation available to commercial customers across the UK. It is relatively easy to install, provides economic energy, reduces carbon footprints, improves energy resilience and gains approval from customers and employees alike. Simon Richards, Director and Chief Finance and Sustainability Officer for Birmingham Airport, talks about the airport’s journey to net-zero by 2033 and key role of a new 6.8MW of solar generation installation.Simon describes the role of his regional airport that handles over 13M passengers. He talks about Board...2025-07-0330 min
The Building PodcastMark talks to Ian RippinSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe Solar Taskforce, an industry / Government collaboration has been in existence since May 2023, working with both Governments to see how solar generation can be rapidly deployed to support the de-carbonisation of the electrical grid and the UK’s statutory net-zero target for 2050. I have been privileged to serve on this taskforce with many of the industry’s big hitters as we have identified blockers and solutions, with our partners at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and co-authored the Solar Road Map, which was recently published.These podca...2025-07-0248 min
The Building PodcastMark talks to Matthew BoultonSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe Solar Taskforce, an industry / Government collaboration has been in existence since May 2023, working with both Governments to see how solar generation can be rapidly deployed to support the de-carbonisation of the electrical grid and to support the UK’s statutory net-zero target for 2050. I have been privileged to serve on this taskforce with many of the industry’s big hitters as we have identified blockers and solutions, with our partners at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and co-authored the Solar Road Map, which was recently published.The...2025-07-0157 min
The Building PodcastMark talks to Alex DesouzaSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe Solar Taskforce, an industry / Government collaboration has been in existence since May 2023, working with both Governments to see how solar generation can be rapidly deployed to support the de-carbonisation of the electrical grid and to support the UK’s statutory net-zero target for 2050. I have been privileged to serve on this taskforce with many of the industry’s big hitters as we have identified blockers and solutions, with our partners at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and co-authored the Solar Road Map, which was recently published.The...2025-06-301h 04
The Building PodcastMark talks to Tim WarhamSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe UK Government has recently published the Solar Road Map, which is a guide to all stakeholders in the solar sector and further afield , on how the UK will achieve the solar element of Net-Zero. It looks at the five year opportunities and challenges that have to be overcome for a near two and a half times increase in solar generation by 2030. This Road Map was the conclusion of two years’ work of the Solar Taskforce, which was a Government / Industry collaboration, which I was privileged to work on.Thes...2025-06-3046 min
The Building PodcastMark talks to Liz CammackSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe solar sector can deliver the lowest levelised cost of energy of any form of energy generation to the grid. Government commissioned the Solar Road Map, which is the culmination of the Solar Taskforce’s work, a joint industry and Government initiative to identify the opportunities and the challenges to meet 55GW of capacity by 2030.Liz Cammack is one of the industry’s titans. She is Vice President for sales, and global advisor for Segen, she is the winner of Women in Energy 2024 and a Director of the UK’s solar...2025-06-3044 min
The Building PodcastMark talks to Gemma GrimesSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe Solar Road Map, that promotes the growth of solar generation to over 50GW by 2030 has been published. It identifies the opportunities for industry and Government to achieve this target and plots the challenges that both parties must overcome. There are four main chapters, including one on people – how many do we need and where will they come from, coupled with ensuring that they have the right skills to deliver an economic, robust and secure generation.Gemma Grimes is the Policy Director at the Solar Trade Association, SEUK, representing comp...2025-06-3048 min
The Building PodcastMark talks to Lawrence SladeSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe Solar Road Map has been published by Government to highlight the opportunities and challenges to install over 50GW of solar PV generation within the UK by 2030. It is the culmination of two years’ work by the Solar Taskforce, which set up four key groups to look at specific challenges. The first group was the Network Group, which looked at overcoming grid constraints that prevented solar installations being connected to the grid. This was chaired by Lawrence Slade, CEO of the Energy Networks Association.Lawrence discusses the role of the E...2025-06-3047 min
The Building PodcastMark talks to Chris HewettSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe Solar Taskforce, an industry / Government collaboration has been in existence since May 2023, working with both Governments to see how solar generation can be rapidly deployed to support the de-carbonisation of the electrical grid and to support the UK’s statutory net-zero target for 2050. I have been privileged to serve on this taskforce with many of the industry’s big hitters as we have identified blockers and solutions, with our partners at the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero and co-authored the Solar Road Map, which was recently published.The...2025-06-3045 min
The Building PodcastMark talks to Sonia DunlopSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe Building Podcast is moving into an allied sector to construction for Series Two. The energy sector is crucial to the generation and distribution of energy, which is the lifeblood of homes and industry. The whole market is changing rapidly as we move from a centralised carbon-based generation model to a de-centralised renewable model. Couple this with the huge growth in demand as the UK heads towards its net-zero target, and moves heating from gas to electric and transport from petrol to electric and we can begin to understand the challenges ahe...2025-06-2740 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Ossi InkiläSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeFinnish Project Alliancing and Takt ProgrammingThe €1.1 Bn Laakso Hospital Project in Helsinki is Finland’s largest construction project. It is run under an Alliance programme where the two clients, main contractor and other key stakeholders have come together to reduce the project risks and ensure success on this key project. Ossi Inkilä is the Programme Director for the Alliance and the driving force behind many of the best practice techniques that are being used to achieve programme, the cost envelope and the quality thresholds. Ossi talks about th...2025-06-2742 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Louise Lado-ByrnesSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeIntegrated Project InsuranceConstruction can be a tough industry that often pits professional against professional or specialist against contractor against clients. All are defending paper-thin margins, claims on their insurances or their reputations. “There must be a better way” said Louise Lado-Byrnes before she found Integrated Project Insurance.Join Louise as she talks through the way that Integrated Project Insurance (IPI) works and the benefits of a system that re-writes the processes that deliver success. IPI effectively creates a virtual company around the project, bringing its own insuran...2025-06-2353 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Billy Boulos and Hannah PennSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeMelanoma and non-melanoma cancers are the most prevalent form of cancer in the UK, accounting for nearly one in three cases. The incidence of this cancer is due to double in the UK over the next twenty years. The relevance to our industry is that of the 2,300 deaths that occur each year from melanoma, 44% occur within the wider construction industry, when we account for less than 8% of the working population. Twice as many men die from melanoma cancers than women, when the initial incidence is the same.These statistics mus...2025-06-0649 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to David FriseSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe construction industry has hundreds of trade bodies, each representing a slice of the industry and each having to demonstrate value to its members. The Building Engineering Services Association is one of these, but it also acts as the focal point for leadership and standard setting within the building services sector. David Frise is their Chief Executive, and he is driving their focus on quality and competence within membership and the wider industry. David talks about the role of trade bodies and the routes to getting your messages out into the wid...2025-05-1246 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Dave FordeSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThere are many theories on how to get the best from a team to deliver a project. Most of these start with a focus on forming the right team. What happens on a construction project when the wrong company is appointed and the client is only really interested in his programme and budget? The pressure on everyone gets really intense and mistakes can start to be made…..Dave Forde runs a Chartered company that acts as a Senior Appointed Person within the electrical regulations and advises companies on complying with t...2025-05-0658 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Graham Hasting-EvansSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeFE Colleges and other vocational training establishments are the gatekeepers for the construction industry. They determine the numbers, calibre and quality of new entrants to the sector. They are exposed on one side to the changing nature of students, many of whom have had to cope with the consequences of covid, and on the other side with employers who are also facing significant change in their expectation on their new recruits. They have to do this with limited budgets as the Cinderella arm of Government.Graham Hasting-Evans is the Pre...2025-04-2957 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Tim BalconSend a Text - Feedback Welcome“The construction industry is a people industry.” It needs people to build projects for people and without these people there would not be any industry. However, these people need to be competent, capable and available in numbers to support 8% of the UK’s Gross Domestic Product. Over sixty years ago, Government created the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) to support the sector and ensure that its people are trained and available. Today, the CITB supports many aspects of employing people within the sector, from encouraging new recruits from all walks of life into...2025-04-2452 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Sally-Anne HaywardSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeMany of the issues that we face in our construction industry have been, or are, experienced in other sectors and we can often find answers by learning from others. Sally-Anne Hayward is an award-winning comedian and author, who has been working in what was a traditional male industry since the 1990s. Sally-Anne talks to Mark about her experiences and challenges of winning in a highly competitive environment, drawing analogies to construction, where she hosted the 2024 Most Influential Women in Construction Awards.2025-03-2140 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Rico WojtulewiczSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe retro-fit market is a huge opportunity for the construction sector. There are some 26M homes to be retro fitted before 2050, and 15M to be retro-fitted before the end of the decade. This is an opportunity for our industry to support our communities and through the provision of acceptable housing, both in terms of living conditions and in its carbon footprint. The challenges around this programme are many – How do we fund, staff and deliver this much work? How do we design and to what standards? Who sets the boundaries of accepta...2025-03-1942 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to James ButcherSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe Building Safety Act continues to impact our construction sector as companies and clients further understand their roles in securing the safety of their buildings and the competence of their organisations, their staff and their supply chains. James Butcher, Director for Strategy and Operations at the National Federation of Builders has been explaining the consequences of the Act to members of the NFB and hearing first-hand of the changing culture within the industry. James talks with Mark about the changes that the Act requires and the key elements that every business, de...2025-03-1152 minThe Building PodcastMarks talks to Richard BeresfordSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe construction sector is the largest industrial sector within the UK, representing up to 8% of Gross Domestic Product. It directly employs over 2M people, with many more in allied and related service and manufacturing companies. Many of these businesses are represented by trade federations, that exist to support and promote their members. The National Federation of Builders is one of these bodies that promotes and supports the fulcrum in our sector, the Main Contractors. Its CEO, Richard Beresford, talks candidly about the role of trade federations and the services that they shou...2025-03-1036 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Vaughan HartSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeConstruction is a people industry, directly employing over 2M people, with many more in allied and servicing sectors. Changes in recent employment legislation, changes in employment practices and winds of change in society at large mean that employers must prepare for a changing employment environment. Indeed, as technology becomes ever more available, those who employ the doers within the industry may well hold the upper hand.Vaughan Hart is the Director for Employment at the National Federation of Builders and a businessman. He has spent his working career in emp...2025-03-0448 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Faye BurnettSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe Building Safety Act and associated statutory legislation demands that only competent people and competent organisations are involved in the construction and maintenance of buildings and infrastructure. This is as a direct consequence of the failure of Grenfell Tower where 72 people lost their lives through a catalogue of construction industry failures. This requirement to demonstrate competence will change our industry’s culture as it will affect all of us who practice within it.Faye Burnett is an experienced Programme Director who is leading the Super Sector Programme, which focuses on t...2025-03-0339 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Sean HoulstonSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeFurther Education Colleges are now scored by OFSTED against their employer engagement. This is designed to encourage them to bridge the gap between education and employment that their students must negotiate. It also allows employers to inform and support courses and students in which they have a vested interest. Sean Houlston, Head of Membership and Digital Services of the National Federation of Builders has been covering this area for the members of the NFB and is also a non-executive Board member of Reaseheath College in Cheshire. This has given Sean a grea...2025-02-2549 minThe Building PodcastMarks talks to George WoodSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeWe live in the digital age and every aspect of our businesses relies on IT to enable, do or determine its course of actions. This reliance on IT has crept up on our industry and our reliance has happened without the traditional overview of risk that we are now running. Capable and sophisticated IT systems can bring huge advantages to a project or company, yet, unmanaged they also offer a huge opportunity for fraudsters to get the better of us and steal information, money and our reputations.Our computer sy...2025-02-2451 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Jason HoweSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeConstruction is a professional business requiring skilled and competent people to design and deliver its product. These skills are created through experience and training. Training is provided by a range of organisations that are responsible for the quality and range of courses. Jason Howe is the Technical Advisor for Construction, Green Skills and the Built Environment for City & Guilds. He advises on the provision of skills to our sector and he is passionate about the quality of our courses and employer engagement to inform the quality and to improve the outcomes for...2025-02-1444 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Faye AllenSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeConstruction companies are paid to deliver projects in tough conditions where significant risks exist. These conditions and risks inform the culture that exists within our businesses and the wider industry. One of the greater challenges that we face is raising productivity within the sector, to enable us to deliver more for less and to pay our workers more. Having the right culture is fundamental to this process as our business need to enable the right people with the right skills to deliver and the resilience to cope with change.Cre...2025-02-1348 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Ele GeorgeSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeOur construction industry is facing many challenges in meeting its obligation to deliver economic, sustainable projects. Many of these challenges require an evolution of our culture that changes our priorities. Other challenges require a wholesale re-think of how we recruit, train and manage our human resource if we are to tackle the sustainability issues head on.Ele George of Elevate FBE is one of the industry’s warriors, fighting on the front line to improve diversity, sustainability and social value whilst keeping construction profitable and attractive to our new entr...2025-02-1247 minThe Building PodcastMarks talks to Ollie SymonsSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe Further Education Sector is the mainstay of vocational education within England, training students from 16 years old and providing the basis for long and successful careers within construction and other vocations. It is often misunderstood, but it is a sector that is asking for active employer engagement to inform the direction and content of training courses and to support its students into quality and valuable careers.Oliver Symons, Principal of Moulton College, gives a masterclass on the services that FE Colleges can provide and talks through the ways that c...2025-02-0436 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Scott KaminskiSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe Building Safety Act is the most significant piece of construction legislation for a generation. Its reach is far and broad across our sector, driven as it was by the terrible disaster of Grenfell. This disaster highlighted multiple structural failures across our sector that from a different perspective should never have been allowed to happen.Implementing the Building Safety Act requires a change of our culture, making individuals accountable and forcing transparency. Scott Kaminski, COO of Jewell PFP is on the front line of these changes and is ideally pla...2025-02-0343 minThe Building PodcastMarks talks to Ian BridgeSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeHave you ever wondered how an HSE prosecution works, or how it feels to be caught up in one? Would you know how to protect your position, when there is plenty happening that you are unfamiliar with and under the pressure of an HSE investigation? Hugely respected barrister, Ian Bridge, takes us though the processes that the courts and HSE follow and explains some of the lessons that others have learned the hard way. Ian’s advice is run your company so that you do not find yourself defending serious accidents or de...2025-01-3058 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Dr Caroline GumbleSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeDr. Caroline Gumble has been the CEO of the Chartered Institute of Building for nearly six years. She has represented the institute both overseas and in the UK, giving her a great perspective on our relative strengths and weaknesses. In this podcast she outlines the areas that she has championed during her tenure and calls for more accountability and professionalism within construction generally. She acknowledges the progress that has been made and the companies and individuals who are driving positive change, but she is keen to point out that we can all...2025-01-2847 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Ruth Griffin and Jess TreshamSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeConstruction is a complex world, where every project is a prototype and the supply chain booked to deliver it is both long and often untested. Any wonder then that the contracts that specify our work, anywhere within the supply chain are both long and relatively complex. These contracts are the preserve of lawyers who can help us set up a project, interpret the language that describes our agreements and occasionally help enforce them. Unfortunately, our industry has a love / hate relationship with the legal profession, yet they form an important part of...2025-01-1745 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Polly HarrowSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe demand from construction businesses for new people to join the sector in the medium to long term is significant. CITB advise that hundreds of thousands will be needed to service the UK’s largest industry, particularly with the transition to net-zero. The vast majority of these recruits will be direct entry from our education system. Polly Harrow is the Student Support Champion for the FE Sector, appointed by Government to provide the student perspective. Her remit is the same as all employers; how to get the best from students as they j...2025-01-1459 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Rudi KleinSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeRudi Klein trained as a barrister before joining the industry as an advocate and militant to promote fairness and best practice. His forty years in the sector has allowed him to represent specialist contractors, fighting for fair payment, the security, or abolition of retentions and fairness in contracts amongst many other initiatives. He is a doyen of the industry who is widely quoted and followed on a broad range of supply side issues. Mark explores both his successes and some of his unfinished business in this podcast, where Rudi takes us thr...2025-01-1046 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Rylie SweeneySend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe construction industry employs over 2M people in the UK. It needs to recruit upwards of 100,000 people every year to replace leavers and fill new roles to meet the demands that are being placed upon the sector. Many of these recruits will start their careers within construction and those of us within the sector have a duty to encourage new starters to join and to then manage them effectively so that they are trained and remain within the industry. Rylie Sweeney is a trainee manager with Willmott Dixon and winner of the...2024-12-2337 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Richard Evans, Blair Whitehurst and Matt RushmereSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeConstruction is the UK’s largest single industry and one that is endlessly changing and variable. There are generally plenty of issues to keep us busy and focused on the known unknowns. However, it is worthwhile taking a step back every so often to see us how others see us, to determine whether we might operate in a different way, with different priorities. Mark talks to three professionals from different backgrounds, but who all have knowledge of overseas markets. Richard Evans, founder of collaboration expert, Affinity and Matt Rushmere, a BDM for N...2024-12-2044 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Yosof EwingSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeConstruction is the only industrial sector that describes its main companies as “contractors”, highlighting the importance of the contract between two parties. This designation forgoes the value that our industry creates, focusing on the small print as our raison d’être. Couple this with a highly fragmented industry with low margin and we perhaps should not be surprised that many of our commercial relationships end in conflict. Yosof Ewing discusses the nature of construction from his vantage point of nearly twenty years supporting specialist contractors to recover monies that they believe are due in...2024-12-1944 minThe Building PodcastMarks talks to Max WilkesSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe construction industry is the largest separate sector in the UK, generating £139Bn of value in 2023, delivered by 365,000 VAT registered businesses, employing over 1.4M people and supported by over 750,000 self-employed staff. These numbers often mask the messages coming from the industry on what we have to do to stay ahead, as leaders focus on their experience and anecdotal case studies. As an established sector, there is a huge amount of data that is published on construction. However, many of us need a guide to advise on the origin, veracity and meaning of t...2024-12-1846 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Eddie HughesSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeConstruction is the largest industry in the UK and therefore an important industry for Government to understand and nurture. Government is also the sector’s largest customer and so one that the industry needs to respect as client and rule setter. Our industry often feels that government does not understand us, or that it fails to set the right environment for the industry to thrive. Government on the other hand can be bewildered by the sheer number of representative bodies and the variety of differing opinions that exist over some of the s...2024-12-1733 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to James PickardSend a Text - Feedback Welcome“The second oldest profession in the world” has lost its mojo over the last fifty years and Architects have lost much of the authority that they used to enjoy. James Pickard, Co-Founder and Principal at employee-owned Cartwright Pickard, talks to Mark about the changing role of the Architect, the importance of recognising the values that the profession can provide and its opportunities to support the sector and its clients. James explores the Building Safety Act, technology and the ever increasing sustainability agenda, noting that only Architects are trained to discuss these compet...2024-12-1052 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Deborah MaddenSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe construction sector relies on a huge number of qualified and competent operatives, managers and Directors to deliver and maintain the built environment. Its training board, the CITB, was set up to support construction companies to achieve this aim. Deborah Madden, Executive Director for Engagement for the CITB, talks to Mark about the organisation, and its role in supporting small and large businesses to help ensure that the industry can respond to the projects and challenges ahead. Deborah describes the organisation in its 60th year, and its approach to engaging with its...2024-12-0443 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Sue WoollettSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThose who work in construction are immensely proud of the value that we deliver to society with both our finished goods, and also through the act of construction. Now labelled “Social Value”, it is a requirement of procurement that construction activities demonstrate this value in a recordable and recognisable manner. Mark chats to Sue Woollett, a Social Value Manager and chair of the influential Social Value Group of CE Midlands about the concept, its measurement and its delivery, looking at the opportunities that construction has to improve our society for all. This is...2024-12-0335 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Danny ClarkeSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe construction industry attracts a broad range of individuals to work within its broad church. We have a higher concentration of neurally diverse people within our ranks and yet we still struggle to attract and retain women. Both these groups of people can provide diversity of thought and organisational resilience, which is crucial when businesses are faced with significant headwinds and they are having to change to cope with a different environment. Danny Clarke is the Engagement Director for England for the CITB. He has championed these sections of our community, demo...2024-12-0244 min
The Onsite Podcast by ProBuild360Building Futures: Sustainability, Skills, and Innovation in Construction | The Onsite Podcast by ProBuild360Welcome to The Onsite Podcast, brought to you by ProBuild360TV.In this episode, host Michael Parinchy, Senior Construction Manager at ProBuild360, sits down with Mark Wakeford, Chairman of the National Federation of Builders (NFB) and EvoEnergy, to explore the pressing challenges and exciting opportunities in the construction industry. With over 30 years of experience, Mark shares his expertise on:Sustainability in construction materials like timber, concrete, and steel.Addressing the industry's skills shortage and the importance of apprenticeships and training programmes.Retrofits and the potential of Victorian terraces as aspirational properties.Planning reform and government focus...2024-11-2926 minThe Building PodcastMarks talks to Chris Kimber-NickelsonSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeConstruction clients start all our projects and define what success looks like. The traditional triumvirate of time, cost and quality are being redefined by intelligent clients to better reflect demands of their stakeholders, where Environment, Social and Governance issues are relevant. Large, and often international clients, who are competing on an international stage are now looking to see how they can generate long term value from these broader issues. Mark talks to Chris Kimber-Nickelson, Commercial Development Director for MEPC, an established and significant UK developer, on creating value for their tenants thr...2024-11-2643 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Stuart YoungSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeConstruction is the largest separate industry in the UK and comes with its own team in Government at the Department for Business and Trade. The team here support the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) to help, inform and change our industry. One of their key interests is the drive to net-zero, which is crucial in an industry that influences 44% of all UK carbon emissions. Stuart Young is the Communications Director for the Construct Zero initiative that this council initiated and now runs. He explores the role of the department and the council, befo...2024-11-2528 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Amit OberoiSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe image of the construction industry has always provided opportunities for improvement. We tend to work behind large hoardings and communities only become aware of us when we disturb them or something goes wrong. The Considerate Constructors Scheme has been working at the sharp end on site for thirty years to improve standards and change our sector’s culture. Mark talks to Amit Oberoi, the Executive Chairman of Considerate Constructors about the role of the scheme and its value to construction, clients and communities local to our sites. Amit also discussed the fu...2024-11-1940 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Iain McIlweeSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe supply chain below main contractor is the essential part of any construction team, responsible for the delivery, the quality and the programme of much of a project. The success of any project relies on the success of the whole supply chain and tier three contractors and below are struggling. Listen to Iain McIlwee, CEO of the Finishes & Interior Sector, discuss the challenges of being a subcontractor; the dumped design that they may become responsible for, the poor payment practices and the challenges of retention. Iain’s message of ‘solve these challen...2024-11-1248 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Mina HasmanSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeMeasuring, managing and prioritising carbon within the purchase, design, delivery and operation of both new build and retro-fit has been a challenge that has prevented the adoption of carbon saving designs and delivery of net-zero buildings. Mina Hasman joins Mark to talk about the recent publication of the “UK Net Zero Building Standard”, which she has helped steer and which will be a game changer within the UK. For the first time we have a coordinated and largely agreed mechanism for measuring and managing carbon in design, delivery and operation, which will a...2024-11-1153 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Vassos ChrysostomouSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeTechnology is all around us and increasing in relevance and role within Construction. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one limb of IT, but one that appears everywhere and which many see as a powerful disruptor to the sector. Vassos Chrysostomou, COO of AIFORSITE UK Ltd talks to Mark about what AI is and what he believes the role of the technology is and will be within construction. Vassos sees AI providing managers within the sector with huge powers of awareness and intelligence, assimilating large amounts of information in real-time to allow much bet...2024-11-0849 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Cliff SmithSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeConstruction wastes over a fifth of its turnover on wasted work and errors that have to be corrected, according to the Get It Right Initiative, which is a huge amount of customer value. The initiative is a membership body that supports members and aims to educate the sector on best practice and methods to reduce this waste. Cliff Smith, Executive Director for GIRI (and a fellow Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers) talks to Mark of the role that GIRI plays and the opportunity that awaits the brave or the mo...2024-11-0742 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Katherine EvansSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeKatherine Evans, owner of “Bold as Brass” and winner of the prestigious “Most Influential Woman in Construction” award in September 2024, talks about what it can be like to be a woman on UK construction sites and the need for better understanding the challenges that they face by all. Katherine expands on the steps that the industry needs to continue to take, to encourage more women to stay within the sector and the opportunities that this will bring. She describes privilege in a manner that can be used by all to understand the conseq...2024-11-0646 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Malcolm ClarkeSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeConstruction is a people industry. It is “people that build for people” and many in the sector have been looking for the best corporate structure to support this mantra. One such solution is the Employee Ownership Trust, where a trust, owned by all the employees controls more than half the equity of the business. This puts the employees in charge of their own destiny and can support a one team culture within an organisation. Malcolm Clarke, MD of Baxall Construction, a successful tier one regional contractor, has steered his company through the proc...2024-11-0535 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Len BuntonSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe value and the complexity of construction makes it a sector prone to disputes that can generate conflict. Add to this time-poor managers and it is little wonder that the industry is known for large scale and costly disputes. The impact of this culture is to make construction businesses less efficient, less innovative and our staff far more prone to mental health issues. Len Bunton talks to Mark about his life as an arbitrator and adjudicator and now as the Chair of the Conflict Avoidance Coalition. This organisation seeks to reduce time...2024-10-3040 minThe Building PodcastMarks chats to James Cameron & Duncan FordeSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeBoth construction and energy sectors are looking for good people to fill worthy career positions. Both sectors are competing with other sectors within in the UK jobs market and both sectors can be relatively short sighted in their appointment criteria, focusing on relevant experience. There are circa 15,000 people leaving the military each year and the vast majority are looking for worthwhile careers within civilian life. Two sectors that can provide valuable careers for competent people are construction and energy and Mark is joined by James Cameron and Duncan Forde of the Mis...2024-10-2941 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Laura Capper at NatWestSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeWe all have bank accounts and banks have their sustainability targets too! Laura Capper is the Head of Manufacturing and Construction for NatWest Group and the ideal person to discuss the bank’s support for their customers and the wider industry to decarbonise their businesses. With over 50,000 business customers and a loan book in excess of £4Bn to the sector, Laura explains why working with the sector and informing the decisions that businesses leaders take is crucial if she is to achieve her target of a 50% reduction in emissions that the bank...2024-10-2846 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Matthew TeagueSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeMatthew Teague is the Market Engagement Manager for TATA System Building Products and is heavily involved in improving the sustainability and carbon content of these products. Matthew discusses the significant improvement in embodied carbon that will be possible with the new electric arc furnaces that TATA are investing in and the design priorities that his team face from increasing customer pressure to decarbonise their products. Matthew is optimistic that the industry can and will achieve the total carbon emissions within buildings to allow the UK to achieve net-zero, recognising that all mu...2024-10-2544 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Andrew CarpenterSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeStructural timber has been a construction product for as long as humans have been building. As the UK becomes more sustainable so must the construction industry. Reverting back to timber as a significant solution to our structural challenges is an obvious answer. Andrew Carpenter is the CEO of the Structural Timber Association and the best person to help the industry navigate the road to doubling the amount of structural timber used within our sector. Andrew talks about the support that his members can give the industry and their focus on quality to s...2024-10-2540 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Clare WatsonSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeThe Heritage Market in the UK is responsible for repairing, renovating and keeping our older and historic buildings fit for purpose. It is worth some £28Bn to the economy and is therefore a vital construction service. Claire Watson of Bernard Watson Decorators and Chair of the influential Heritage Group talks about the challenges facing the sector, the need to bring new people in to reinforce the skills and expertise in the market and the role of the Heritage Mark in identifying competence. Clare explains that as the decorator, she is the most...2024-10-1836 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Michael ParinchySend a Text - Feedback WelcomeMichael Parinchy is the Chair of the House Builders Association within The National Federation of Builders. He works for ProBuild 360, which is an SME home builder, based in the Midlands. Michael discussed the challenges of delivering homes and his approach to a customer centric service with a vertically integrated business. The interview covers problems with the planning system through to the supply chain and skills needed to meet his customers, demands. 2024-10-0239 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to David Hughes CBESend a Text - Feedback WelcomeDavid Hughes, Chief Executive officer of the Association of Colleges talks to Mark about the role that further education colleges up and down the country play in construction and energy sectors. David is passionate about the potential of the FE network, the professionalism of their teaching staff the students that pass through colleges. The podcast explores the benefit that companies of all sizes can expect through working with colleges to support the lecturers and students and how this can address the skills crisis in construction. David is very optimistic about the pot...2024-10-0138 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to Richard CymlerSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeMark talks to Richard Cymler, a Regional Director (Midlands) at Sweco and Chair of the Building Safety Group at Construction Excellence Midlands about the Building Safety Act. The disaster at Grenfell Tower spawned this legislation as the industry was clearly avoiding responsibility for the safety of its buildings. Richard is the ideal person to describe the legislation that applies to all construction work requiring building control certification. He talks through the new processes and liabilities that constructors now work within. The Act is far reaching, and we hear Richard’s aspirations on the...2024-10-0138 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Jarvey Moss - CEO of SaibleSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeProject Bank Accounts are ways that construction clients and contractors can decrease insolvency risk, improve collaboration and reduce the need for project bonding. Mark talks with Jarvey Moss, CEO of Saible, a new business that uses modern technology to solve governance, speed and transparency issues that have previously blighted the roll out of Project Bank Accounts. The conversation explores the operation, benefits and costs of setting up a modern project bank account.2024-09-1739 minThe Building PodcastMark talks to David Hawes at NetZero InternationalSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeDiscussion on the need for culture change within construction to meet client and society's demands for Net Zero. David is the CEO of NetZero International, an organisation that validates a company's carbon footprint. David talks about the opportunities for business, the importance of standardisation and the need for transparency to avoid greenwashing.2024-08-2028 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Georgia Elliott-SmithSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeA conversation with Georgia Elliott-Smith of Fighting Dirty, on the impending need to reduce the embodied carbon in the construction industry and the ability of clients to influence the outcomes that are important to them through detailed planning. The talk includes information on positioning the construction companies as those who can help clients reduce their footprint and add value to a project. Georgia also covers the need for transparency in our actions, as no-one expects everything to go according to plan and no-one can afford to be labelled as “greenwashing” if they wi...2024-08-2040 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Dr Wendy DobsonSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeA conversation with Dr Wendy Dobson of FTI Consulting where the topic of carbon accounting is reviewed and the needs of the construction sector to make significant progress in measuring, auditing and reducing the embodied carbon in both their companies and their projects. Coming from an overtly financial perspective, Wendy is able to translate the management of carbon into the profitability of projects and those involved in those projects.2024-08-2027 minThe Building PodcastMark chats to Nigel TonksSend a Text - Feedback WelcomeNigel Tonks is the Sustainability Development Director for Arup, speaking nationally and internationally, including at COPs on the need and mechanisms to reduce carbon throughout the built environment. Nigel explores the details that companies need to understand and the services that they must perform if they are to continue to work in mainstream construction as the legislative requirements tighten. Nigel has an international perspective and comparisons are drawn between other parts of the world, to show that we have ground to make up.2024-08-1511 min
Killer Stories11-2 Lundy MurdersToday I am covering the Lundy Murders- suggested by New Zealand listener, Lizzie Bourke.Mark Lundy was convicted of murdering his wife and daughter in August 2000. But did he actually do it? This case has SO much controversy. I am here to lay out all the facts and let you be the judge. https://linktr.ee/KillerStoriessources:MurderpediaWikipediaGirl guidesnzheraldthermofisherLiz Wakeford - part 1Liz Wakeford - part 2newsroomNZhistory2023-10-2238 min
Oh My God Particle Show!OMGPS EP 10 - DAHLIA WILDE with DR. CHRIS LINTOTT, DR. HANNAH WAKEFORD & DR. MARK KRUSEDahlia Wilde continues on her journey to better understand the universe and our place in it. She lands in London with her Wonder Dog and has a mind-blowing pep-talk with the incredible Dr. Mark C. Kruse, her particle physics mentor and friend from Duke University and CERN Large Hadron Collider. They’re joined by wonderful astrophysicists, Dr. Chris Lintott from Oxford University and the BBC “THE SKY AT NIGHT”, and Dr. Hannah Wakeford from Bristol University. Chris and Hannah co-wrote the excellent book “BANG!!” (The Complete History of the Universe) with legendary guitarist and astrophysicist Sir Brian May. Please c...2023-08-0250 minOh My God Particle Show!OH MY GOD PARTICLE SHOW! CERN Scientists and Sir Brian May's Astrophysicist Co-Writer Buddies who wrote the book BANG!!Dahlia Wilde continues on her journey to better understand the universe and our place in it. She lands in London with her Wonder Dog and has a mind-blowing pep-talk with the incredible Dr. Mark C. Kruse, her particle physics mentor and friend from Duke University and CERN Large Hadron Collider. They’re joined by wonderful astrophysicists, Dr. Chris Lintott from Oxford University and the BBC “THE SKY AT NIGHT”, and Dr. Hannah Wakeford from Bristol University. Chris and Hannah co-wrote the excellent book “BANG!!” (The Complete History of the Universe) with legendary guitarist and astrophysicist Sir Brian May. “OH MY G...2023-06-0749 min
Lagrange PointEpisode 338 - Exoplanets boiling and stretching, Goldilocks and SupernovaBoiling planets being stretched and squished. Tiny white dwarf stars going supernova. Goldilocks planets potentially with liquid water. Exoplanet hunting is now a lot easier with missions like TESS and veterans like Hubble. We look at some special cases, and how searching for 1 planet can uncover loads more. Sometimes planets are lurking in old observatory data, we just need to know where to look. Too hot, too cold, GJ357 potentially has a planet that's just right with liquid water. What causes a White Dwarf to go supernova? It needs more than itself to kickstart it into a Type 1a...2019-08-0520 min
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