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Aidan Mullan, Sustainability Manager at Interface: In 1994 Interface founded its mission zero initiative with a goal to reduce the company's environmental impacts to 0 by 2020 over the last 29 years achieving a 76% reduction in carbon footprint for its products. Today the goal is to move beyond mission zero to becoming a restorative enterprise and to be carbon negative by 2040. Join the conversati...

Jorge Chapa, Chief Impact Officer at Green Building Council of Australia: Jorge Chapa , Chief Impact Officer at  Green Building Council of Australia  shares his views on the change in mindset required to achieve Circularity for the Built Environment and the importance of it for our future. Join in the conversation as celebrate the  World Green Building Council  recently released Circularity Playbo...

Dan Rennie, CEO of LEILAC: Using Calix’s novel process enhancement technology to deliver a step change in the cost, and efficiency of capturing CO₂ emissions, for the cement and lime industries, Dan Rennie, CEO of Leilac spearheaded the development and coordination of the first and second Leilac projects. With 3 quarters of the built environment needed by 2050 still to be constructed, modelling in...

Amira Ayoub, Head of MENA Programmes: With the MENA region heating up at twice the rate addressing the resilience of the Built Environment is imperative. Leading the charge to accelerate the collaboration required to do just this is architect Amira Ayoub, Head of MENA programmes at World Green Building Council. Join in the conversation as Amira shares her passion for creating transparent conversat...

Amy Marks,VP at Autodesk: Join in to hear Amy Marks, Queen of Prefab, as she paints a vision for a more modern, connected and insightful environment where people can be more predictive, and less reactive. Amy unpacks what it is going to take to deliver a define-design-make-operate cycle that is informed by the performance of its own components and systems, and why the transformation of constructio...

Ryan Roberts, Head of Sustainable Construction for the Holcim group: Ryan Roberts  is the Head of Sustainable Construction for the  Holcim  group based in Switzerland. With extensive experience across the construction industry, Ryan is passionate about the Built Environment and its ability to enhance the lives of people. Join in the conversation as he shares how Holcim is striving to deliver susta...

Alessandro Ronfini, Partner at DEMO Architects: More than creating a pathway to highly efficient buildings passive house design is providing a viable and positive environment for inhabitants that are sensitive to external environmental factors. With key design elements focused on airtightness, thermal insulation and mechanical ventilation Alessandro Ronfini, CEO , Demo Architects shares both the e...

Ninotschka Titchkosky, CEO at BVN Architecture: In this episode  Ninotschka Titchkosky , CEO,  BVN Architecture ,  shares her passion for sustainable and creative architecture and its application for Australia's  Atlassian  headquarters project. A project that is being touted as the world's tallest hybrid timber tower and a project that is bringing nature back to the Built Environment. Join the co...

Bertrand Cazes, Secretary General of Glass for Europe: Bertrand Cazes is the Secretary General of Glass for Europe, the trade association for Europe’s flat glass sector. With over 10 years at the helm of Glass for Europe, Bertrand has a strong insider knowledge of the flat glass manufacturing and glazing sector in Europe and a unique overview over the challenges faced by the building and automotiv...

Blaise Porter, Group Director Sustainability & Social Responsibility: Sims Metal, and each of its business divisions, play an integral role in the circular economy by making resources available for future use. As the global leader in metal recycling, and data centre IT circularity, and with a purpose to create a world without waste to preserve the planet, it is driven to constantly innovate an...

Dr. Reza Hassani, Senior Associate at BG&E: Quay Quarter Tower in Sydney Australia has set a global benchmark for adaptive reuse. Join in the conversation with Dr Reza Hassani Senior Associate Structures for BG&E as he shares the journey to transform an existing commercial building into a world class vertical village, in the process setting a hallmark of world-class engineering and ingenui...

Jonathan Prendergast, Technical Director, BRCA: Business Renewables Centre Australia (BRCA) is revolutionizing the way corporate Australia invests in renewable energy. Their efforts are leading to monumental growth across this sector, resulting in significant financial, social and sustainability benefits for the nation and driving supply-demand management of the Australian grid - setting an exampl...

Ann Austin, Head of Sustainability for Lendlease Australia: Lendlease's ambitious science based emission reduction targets have been described as industry leading. Listen as Ann Austin, Head of Sustainability for Lendlease Australia, shares some of their journey for developing these and the importance for organizations to understand and hone in on their unique area of influence in determining thou...

Abhimanyu Singh, founder and CEO for Hexpressions &  Kunjpreet Arora, Co founder and CEO of Angirus: In this special episode of the VinZero Think Future Podcast we turn to India where two Entrepreneurial companies are revolutionizing our Built Environment from the ground up. Abhimanyu Singh, the founder and CEO for Hexpressions, shares how they are changing the game for affordable housing usin...

Monica Richter, Project Director at Materials & Embodied Carbon Leaders’ Alliance: Join in the conversation as we explore how a systems thinking approach can support the radical collaboration required to drive decarbonization in the material supply chain for our Built Environment. And the vital role of policy and regulation needed demand side to drive the changes required.  

Tristram Carfrae, Deputy Chairman: After 41 years as Arup and as an Arup fellow Tristram Carfrae has devoted his life to the built environment. Join in the conversation as we talk through the criticality of whole life carbon assessment in understanding the consequences of our design and construct for buildings and infrastructure. The role of optimization and the circular economy in extending the l...

Matt De Jongh, Sustainability Manager at Responsible Wood: Matt De Jongh demystifies deforestation and regeneration proving the value of timber for the built environment as the most sustainable, circular building material for the future. From the history of indigenous forestry management, the scientific based research demonstrating the positive response for Australia’s much-loved wildlife to the h...

Peter Wilkinson, Founder & Director at SamWilko Advisory: The engineering and construction industry is at a tipping point: How can we foster long-term growth in uncertain times? How do we navigate technology-driven disruption and meet the challenge of net zero emissions? Peter Wilkinson  author of The Steel Ceiling: Achieving Sustainable Growth in Engineering and Construction, highlights curre...

Jason Howden, Principal & Digital Innovation Leader: Jason Howden shares how Warren and Mahoney's approach to collaborative digital design principles for a sustainable built environment. Carbon Neutral for over a decade, Warren and Mahoney take their responsibility for influencing our built environment of the future seriously, and their results speak for themselves. With a view that the bigges...

Jen Carson, Head of Industry at Climate Group: Join Jen Carson, as she takes us through Climate Groups Zero Steel and Zero Concrete initiatives to demonstrate how they are working with ambitious and progressive businesses and partners from around the world to drive decarbonization for these critical building materials.   

Clare Tubolets, CEO of SmartCrete CRC: As a critical building material for our Built Environment concrete makes up for some 8% of global emissions. Clare Tubolets, CEO of SmartCrete CRC, provides insights into the innovations now reshaping our approach to this age-old material, and the role of CRC in enabling the collaboration of an entire ecosystem to drive and deliver the changes needed.   

Nitin Govila, Senior VP at Serge Ferrari: Serge Ferrari  has a mission to act now to build a better tomorrow. For nearly 50 years, they have been designing, developing, and manufacturing innovative composite fabrics for light architectural and exterior landscaping applications. Join the conversation as  Nitin Govila , Senior Vice President Asia Pacific +MEA, shares how they are providing sustainab...

Lisa Stine, Marketing manager at Autodesk: In this 2 part episode we hear first from Lisa Stine. Leveraging a degree in Civil Engineering and a love of technology to improve the sustainability of construction, Lisa Stine leads the marketing efforts for Autodesk and its partners. Lisa's background, and work with Autodesk, allows her to explore the landscape of the built environment through the lens...

Jack Noonan, Vice President APAC for the International Well Building Institute: Join Jack Noonan as we explore the changing definition of both High-Performance Buildings and Sustainability, and the key to measuring this for the benefit of owner, tenants and communities as a whole.

Brian Skripac, Director of Virtual Design and Construction, for Design Build Institute of America: Join Brian Skripac, as we explore the power of combining BIM with virtual design and construction to increase project profitability and support sustainability, and as we consider some of the game changing technologies that are reshaping design, construction, and asset management across the built envi...