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Episode 5: Follow the money: Liz Peace, former chief executive of the British Property Federation and now senior independent governor at the RICS, is this week’s guest on the Home Truths podcast. Having focused on commercial property during her 13 years at the BPF until 2014, she has since taken up a series of high-profile roles including becoming the chair of the Old Oak and Park Royal Developmen...

Episode 4: Bricks and mortar, hearts and minds: Darren Rodwell is leader of the council in the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham in east London. He is also standing as the Labour candidate to become MP for Barking in the 4 July general election – and is this week’s guest on the Home Truths podcast. Born in Barking and brought up in Dagenham, Rodwell’s declared aim has been to deliver 50,000 h...

Home Truths Episode 3, Gimme Shelter: Toby Lloyd, an independent housing policy consultant and former special adviser to No 10 Downing Street, is the guest on this week’s Home Truths podcast series. Before working for the government, Lloyd was head of policy and then housing development at Shelter, the campaigning housing and homelessness charity. Lloyd was a housing and regeneration policy specia...

Home Truths Episode 2: In violent agreement Jenny Daly, chief executive of Taylor Wimpey, appears in today’s episode of Building Talk’s latest series which is focused on the housing crisis and is co-hosted by Jackie Sadek and Peter Bill. Daly started her career as a planner, before joining Harrow Estates, a subsidiary of Redrow, where she had a number of roles before becoming managing director. Sh...

Home Truths Episode 1: The Swiss Army knife Peter Freeman, chair of Homes England, is the guest in today’s first episode of Building Talk’s latest series which is focused on the housing crisis and is co-hosted by Jackie Sadek and Peter Bill. Freeman, who has been in post over two years having been recently reappointed until 2025, is widely known in the industry as co-founder of Argent and instrume...

The Home Truths series is being hosted by Peter Bill and Jackie Sadek - housing experts, authors and old friends.  With a general election round the corner, Peter and Jackie have joined up with Building Talks for a podcast series all about the housing crisis and how to fix it.  Over five weeks they will be sharing their views and inviting guests in high places who know all about the challenges of...

Welcome to a special bonus episode of the Building Talks podcast. As you may know, Building Magazine is 180 years old this year - having launched as “The Builder” back in 1843.  In this special one-off episode, we celebrate by going back to the not-too-distant past with four previous editors of Building Magazine. From the tail-end of Thatcherism, through the Blair years, and right up to Brexit - t...

Our guest in episode 4 of Building Talks… Creating Communities is Anna Mansfield, a director at the research-based urban design consultancy Publica. Anna initially thought she wanted to be a fashion designer, but found her way into architecture, and from there into urban design and thinking about the city at a much larger scale.  Like many people now working in a sector that has community, engagem...

Our guest in episode 3 of Building Talks… Creating Communities is David Rudlin, urban design director at BDP. David is one of the UK’s leading urban designers and planning experts. He began his career as a town planner and is a big supporter of the idea of the planner as someone who helps provide a clear strategic direction, and sets high standards for placemaking. The belief that British cities h...

Our guest in episode 2 of Building Talks… Creating Communities is Selina Mason, director of masterplanning and strategic design at Lendlease.  Selina has been at the heart of debates around urban design and how we build better cities for the last two decades. Few people have the wide-ranging experiencing of public and private sector that she draws on to inform her approach to practice. In her curr...

Welcome to Building Talks …Creating Communities.  New developments can face massive local opposition, attacked for poor design, a lack of public services, and low quality civic space.  These are the challenges we'll be tackling in season 2 of the Building Talks podcast. By talking to built environment professionals over four weeks we will explore their personal stories, influences and motivations....

Episode 6 of our Building Talks Net Zero podcast is a bumper edition as it's the last in the current series. We talk to the engineering firm Webb Yates about key construction materials: Anna Beckett and Tom Webster explain the potential to reuse or recycle materials such as concrete and steel.  We also hear from Edmund Fowles and Fergus Feilden, the founding partners of Feilden Fowles, a young pra...

Episode 5 of our Building Talks Net Zero podcast series features an interview with Ben Houchen, Tees Valley mayor, on his ambitions to make the region a hub for the government’s so-called “green industrial revolution”. Houchen is a strong advocate for hydrogen production and carbon capture and storage technology, and in this episode he criticises recent Whitehall policy that delayed any decision o...

The fourth episode of our Building Talks Net Pero podcast series has a selection of interviews recorded in Glasgow during the COP26 climate conference. This week Building’s reporter Tom Lowe speaks to construction attendees in the ‘Green Zone’ of COP26 for the Cities, Regions & Built Environment Day, including Gregor Craig, Skanska UK chief executive, and Hannah Vickers, Mace's chief of staff....

The third episode of our Building Talks Net Zero podcast series is released today to coincide with the final week of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow. This week’s keynote interview is with Tom Bennett , an eco-activist architect who combines his professional specialism in sustainable design at London practice Studio Bark  with taking part in protest movements. He has caught media attention...

We're back with our second episode of the Building Talks... Net Zero podcast series looking at how the built environment can help us hit the UK’s net zero carbon targets. At the start of the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow, we talk to two of the founding members of the London Energy Transformation Initiative (LETI), a volunteer group of professionals who have produced a phenomenal amount of ne...

The Building Talks... Net Zero podcast is a brand-new series looking at how the built environment can help us hit the UK’s net zero carbon targets. Just days from the start of the COP26 climate change conference, the government has published its long-awaited Heat and Buildings Strategy and its Net Zero Strategy, which we analyse with expert Simon Wyatt, a partner at Cundall. We also talk to new RI...

Trailer episode: This is our introduction to our latest podcast series - Building Talks: Net Zero. Hear from the team on what to expect in the upcoming episodes - which will be in your feed from 25 October

Building’s podcast returns for its fourth series. This three-part special will take listeners behind the hype of buzzwords and jargon In this episode:  WSP's Matthew Marson on smart technologies and smart buildings, and how clever manipulation of data can transform your building without spending a fortune. As well as the new series, you can listen back to all previous episodes at building.co.uk/po...

Building’s podcast returns for its fourth series. This three-part special will take listeners behind the hype of buzzwords and jargon In this episode: Igloo Regeneration's Chris Brown on social value. Where did the phrase come from, what are social value initiatives, and how is it procured and valued? As well as the new series, you can listen back to all previous episodes at building.co.uk/podcast...

Building’s podcast returns for its fourth series. This three-part special will take listeners behind the hype of buzzwords and jargon In this episode: JLL’s Elaine Rossall on Gensler and the British Council for Offices’ report into the revolution in flexible and collaborative workspaces – and its impact on those who design and plan offices. The Rise of the Flexible Workplace in the Corporate Secto...

Digital transformation is the big challenge facing the construction industry – for too long it has been held back by traditional ways of operating and yet now it seems the circumstances have never been better for the mass take-up of new technologies. So, who are the people driving this revolutionary change? " There’s a misconception that BIM and digital are a nice to have or a surplus cost." "Most...

This Building podcast is brought to you by Fenwick Elliott, the construction and energy law specialists. To find out more, go to www.fenwickelliott.com Julie Hirigoyen is chief executive at the UK Green Building Council. She believes the time to act on climate change for construction is now. Dave Bebb, a partner in Fenwick Elliott, explains Letters of Intent in construction projects, how disputes...

This Building podcast is brought to you by Fenwick Elliott, the construction and energy law specialists. To find out more, go to www.fenwickelliott.com Jordan Marshall and Will Ing discuss the continued contractor struggles as Costain issues a profit warning , Kier gets embroiled in a payment times issue , the world’s oldest contractor goes bust , and we investigate what went wrong at the Shaylor...

On today's episode, we go digital. Atkins' Neil Thompson tells us what construction can learn from how the music and gaming industries transformed throughout the digital revolution. We also speak to Bryden Wood's Jaimie Johnston on the pioneering ways in which automation is revolutionising how we design and construct buildings. You can catch up on Building's Digital Transformation special at www.b...