Building Our Future
38 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsBert Broadhead & guests explore developing themes in innovation, technology & futurology in real estate and the built environment.
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Tim Panagos | How can IoT integrations help manage infection control in the built environment?
February 27, 2021 16:00 - 38 minutes - 26.4 MBHow can IoT integrations help manage infection control in the built environment? Tim is CTO of Microshare, creating smart facilities solutions for the built environment. He is in charge of the strategic product vision and his past 12mths have unsurprisingly been focussed on harnessing the power of technology to help buildings be more resilient in the face of the pandemic. In this podcast: How has Covid-19 shaped the direction of smart facilities management? How has Covid-19 affected take...
Andrew McMullan | Masterplanning for wellness & designing homes for the young
January 08, 2021 06:00 - 33 minutes - 23.3 MBHow do we design buildings and places with wellness in mind? Do we need to reconsider residential design to reflect changing life priorities? Andrew Mcmullan is a British architect whose fresh and optimistic approach to design has helped create renowned global projects that make a deep impact on places and people. In 2018, he founded Mcmullan Studio to evolve his positive vision of architecture. Based in London, Andrew leads his team to create beautiful, buildable projects for progressive c...
Martha Weidmann | Transforming spaces into experiences with original art
December 11, 2020 08:00 - 41 minutes - 28.9 MBMartha Weidmann is CEO and Co-Founder of Nine Dot Arts in Denver, Colorado. Nine Dot Arts is a consulting firm that not only curates inspirational art experiences, but also serves as an advocate for both art and artists. In this podcast: What’s driving the renaissance of the use of art in the built environment? What are the benefits of art for spaces, places and buildings? What mediums of art are being used? How are arts projects generally funded? How important is ROI of art and how ca...
Katie Kasabilis | Innovation (in the workplace) by design
September 04, 2020 04:00 - 41 minutes - 28.7 MBnnovation; everyone wants it but how can we help create it through urban and building design? Katie Kasabilis is an urbanist, architect and educator whose career has straddled the worlds of practice and academia. She is currently an assistant professor in architecture at the University of Virginia, a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Cities and the Design Director of Kasawoo. Her work is at the forefront of a new direction for urban research – one that investigates the role of technological i...
Pradyumna Pandit | Buildings With Minds of Their Own
March 13, 2020 06:00 - 36 minutes - 25.3 MBWhat are “smart” buildings & how will they change the way we design, build and use our built environment? Pradyumna Pandit is the Vice President UK & Ireland of Digital Energy, a at Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and automation. He previously worked at Honeywell for 18 years where he held roles in Asia, the Americas and EMEA. In this podcast: What’s driving the growing interest in smart(er) buildings? What’s Schneider Electric’s role been to date and wher...
Nicholas Boys Smith | Building beautiful, building better
February 24, 2020 06:00 - 40 minutes - 28.1 MBNicholas Boys-Smith left a job in banking to set up Create Streets, a research institute that supports "community-led regeneration" and prioritises high-density, low-rise buildings over tower blocks. He is a Commissioner of Historic England, a senior research fellow at the University of Buckingham, a Fellow at the Legatum Institute and an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism. In this podcast: Why are beautiful buildings important? How do we measure beauty in the built environment? Wha...
Dror Poleg | Rethinking Real Estate
November 29, 2019 06:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBHow can we navigate technology’s impact on the world’s largest asset class? Dror Poleg is the author of Rethinking Real Estate and the Co-Chair of the Urban Land Institute’s Technology and Innovation Council in New York. He is a former real estate and technology executive who now dedicates most of his time to researching the impact of technology on urban life and the way physical assets are designed, used, and valued. Dror advises executives across the real estate universe on emerging bus...
Andrea Pizziconi | Real estate as a catalyst for social change
October 11, 2019 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBCan real estate development deliver social justice? Andrea Pizziconi is a singer, songwriter and social entrepreneur. She is the founder of the Christie Company (a pioneer in affordable, mixed-use developments) and of Africa Integras (financier of education infrastructure in Africa) as well as the co-founder of Compositions for a Cause, which creates cause-related music to inspire activism for social justice. In this podcast: Educational infrastructure & real estate as a catalyst for rege...
Vanessa Hale | the changing shape of the real estate industry
September 27, 2019 05:00 - 31 minutes - 21.4 MBBreaking down the barriers: the built environment in a post-digital world where sectors, silos and boundaries are increasingly blurred. Vanessa Hale is Director of Research at BNP Paribas Real Estate and brand-new, and youngest ever, chair of ULI UK. Vanessa has 20 years of experience in global strategic research across all real estate sectors in the UK and the US. In this podcast: The breakdown of traditional real estate “sectors” and boundaries The role of technology in changing how w...
Mike Bristow | Can P2P lending boost UK housing production?
September 06, 2019 06:00 - 36 minutes - 25.1 MBCan P2P lending boost housing delivery numbers by financially enabling SME house-builders? What does the P2P market need to learn from recent history to ensure a fair & transparent market of risk / reward for investors? Is technology the right answer? Mike Bristow is CEO & Co-founder of CrowdProperty; a specialist property peer-to-peer lending platform facilitating loans between private individuals and UK professional property businesses. Lending is focused on the SME property developer mar...
Indy Johar | The Great Rotation and the Built Environment
August 16, 2019 04:00 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBWhat is the great rotation and how will it affect the built environment in the years to come? Indy Johar is an architect, co-founder of Project 00 & Dark Matter Labs and Senior Innovation Associate at the Young Foundation. Dark Matter Labs is a field laboratory focused on radically redesigning the bureaucratic & institutional infrastructure of our cities, regions and towns for a more democratic, distributed great transition. Project 00 is a collaborative studio of architects, strategic d...
Ben Gleisner | How to shape the built environment by better understanding social & ethical preferences
July 26, 2019 05:00 - 38 minutes - 26.2 MBCan technology help the built environment better reflect people’s changing social and ethical consumption choices? Ben is an economist, environmentalist and social entrepreneur. He has founded several businesses and charities, and worked for 6 years at the New Zealand Treasury - where he led the development of the Living Standards Framework. He co-founded CoGo while working at the New Zealand Treasury, and has grown the social enterprise to a thriving New Zealand movement with over 20,000 c...
Alexandra Steed | Building Better Cities through Landscape Architecture
July 12, 2019 07:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBHow can well-designed landscape & public realm help create better cities for people? Alexandra is a chartered landscape architect in the UK, and also worked for a number of years in Canada where she was responsible for a series of innovative public realm projects for the City of Vancouver. In 2013, Alexandra founded URBAN with the stated aim of creating better cities for people through a synthesis of art, landscape and sustainability. Before starting her own practice, Alexandra led the...
Charlie Wade | UK Managing Director, VTS
June 21, 2019 06:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBCharlie Wade is UK Managing director of PropTech giant, VTS. In their own words, VTS is the commercial real estate industry’s leading leasing and asset management platform. Landlords use VTS to maximise portfolio performance by transforming their leasing and asset management process and unlocking real-time insights – enabling them to convert leads to leases faster than ever before, and build informed data-led strategies. Brokers can manage their deal pipeline and get tenants into empty spac...
Mark Pilkington | Retail Therapy;Why the retail industry is broken - and what can be done to fix it
June 07, 2019 05:00 - 44 minutes - 20.4 MBIs there really a Retail Apocalypse? Why is the retail industry in the state its in and how can property owners help to rebuild towards a brighter retail future? Mark Pilkington is author of the newly-released book, Retail Therapy: why the industry is broken and what can be done to fix it. Mark has enjoyed a successful and varied career in retail. After graduating from INSEAD, he joined Cortaulds, later becoming CEO of Gossard where he was responsible for initiating the huge global success...
Savannah de Savary | Founder & CEO, Built-ID
May 24, 2019 08:00 - 30 minutes - 14.1 MBCan technology nurture greater community engagement in the shape of develop projects and will this help “democratise” real estate? My guest today is Savannah de Savary, founder and CEO of Built-ID; a prop-tech platform that “showcases the built environment projects of today and transforms community engagement to better shape the projects of tomorrow”. Built-ID connects architects and consultants with potential clients on an online hub which has been described as the Shazam of property. Af...
Fiona Fletcher-Smith | Group Director of Development & Sales, L&Q
May 10, 2019 11:00 - 37 minutes - 17.4 MBBuilding communities at the scale needed to meet the challenges of the UK’s housing shortage. In 2018, Fiona Fletcher-Smith left City Hall (where she was Executive Director of Development, Enterprise and Environment) to join L&Q where she is Group Director of Development and Sales, responsible for delivering the Registered Provider’s stated aim of constructing 100,000 new homes in the next decade. One of L&Q’s flagship projects is Barking Riverside, an 443 acre site where the vision is to ...
Dr Lee Bofkin | Co-founder & CEO, Global Street Art
April 26, 2019 09:00 - 34 minutes - 15.6 MBOne man’s mission to live in painted cities; how can street art transform both buildings and communities? Holding a PhD in Evolutionary Mathematics from Cambridge, Lee was a former break-dancer with the Soul Mavericks Crew where he represented the UK and he has travelled the world extensively documenting street art world-wide. In 2012, he co-founded Global Street Art with a mission to live in painted cities. This is achieved in three ways: Curating the world’s largest online street art p...
Ros Pomeroy | Co-founder, Brainy Birdz
January 20, 2019 00:00 - 34 minutes - 15.9 MBDo we give enough thought to the impact that the design and layout of our workplaces has on our individual & collective productivity & well-being? I delve into the world of workspace science to find the answers. Ros Pomeroy is a co-founder of Brainy Birdz; a consultancy specialising in the unpronounceable (for me, anyway) ‘zusammenarbeit’ - that’s to say, how people work together. Together with co-founder Dr Kerstin Sailer, Ros is at the forefront of using data to help diagnose what makes a...
Antony Slumbers | Founder, AntonySlumbers.com
January 20, 2019 00:00 - 42 minutes - 19.7 MBWhat is Artificial Intelligence and how is about to reshape our approach to work? Will this mean that SpaceAsaService becomes the new normal for the build environment? Antony is a renowned speaker in the property world and a globally recognised expert on PropTech, Artificial Intelligence & SpaceAsaService. A pre-eminent blogger in the world of AI, he’s recently been voted as the number one non-US person to follow on Twitter. Having founded several PropTech companies, he still retains an ac...
Justin Shee | Founder & CEO, The Kohab
November 20, 2018 10:00 - 30 minutes - 14 MBCan we better serve our ageing population through a new model of inter-generational co-living? Justin Shee is the founder of The Kohab; a new inter-generational retirement living company, bringing old and young adults together under one roof to live in mutual support. The Kohab is both a potential answer to the age ghettos created by retirement living and a solution to the loneliness epidemic faced by both young and old adults in the UK. In this podcast: What’s behind the growi...
Gemma John | Founder & Director, Human City
October 11, 2018 23:00 - 34 minutes - 15.6 MBCan the application of traditional social sciences to big data help better tailor the future of the built environment to societal needs? Gemma John is an anthropologist, helping to influence urban planning and development. After ten years in academic research, Gemma spent five years working for engineering, planning, and architecture firms, including AECOM & Foster + Partners, before establishing her own consultancy business, Human City. Human City helps property developers to create com...
Gabrielle McMillan | CEO, Equiem
October 01, 2018 23:00 - 36 minutes - 16.9 MBCan technology bridge the service gap between buildings with amenity & space-as-a-service? Gabrielle McMillan is the founding CEO of Equiem and has led the Equiem business and team from inception in 2011. In her previous role as Director and General Manager of Advance Marketing, Gabrielle oversaw significant business growth (9 x revenue), expansion into New Zealand and the UK and international operations, including 180 staff. Equiem catalyses communities, using technology to turn commercia...
Lara Marrero | Studio Director & Retail Practice Leader, Gensler
September 26, 2018 23:00 - 40 minutes - 18.4 MBAre brand engagement & media overtaking transactions as the primary purpose of bricks-and-mortar retail? Where else in the build environment is brand influencing building design and utility? Lara Marerro is a Studio Director & Retail Practice Leader at Gensler, the global architectural practice. Rather than specialising in a specific sector, Lara is interested the power brand and how it relates to consumers and built environment. With an education that spans psychology, advertising, market...
Andrea Carpenter | Author & Founder, Women Talk Real Estate
August 29, 2018 23:00 - 41 minutes - 19 MBDoes the history of the European Real Estate market hold any clues for the direction of the future? My guest today is Andrea Carpenter, a communications consultant in the property industry, founder & director of this podcast’s partner, the non-profit Women Talk Real Estate, and author of the new book High Rise and Fall: The Making of the Modern Real Estate Industry. Andrea began her career as a journalist at Property Week before moving on to be editor of EuroProperty. Following this she wo...
Susan Freeman | Partner, Mishcon de Reya
August 20, 2018 23:00 - 36 minutes - 16.9 MBHow can collaboration improve the real estate industry? The view from one of the UK property sector's great generalists on the state of the market and the way ahead... Susan Freeman is a partner at the law firm Mishcon de Reya. Susan hold a business degree from London Business school and a is well known as a proponent of innovation in real estate. Described by Bisnow as one of the best-connected lawyers in the sector, Susan is one of the most followed real estate twitter users in the UK – y...
Matt Partridge | Founder & CEO, Infabode
August 05, 2018 23:00 - 33 minutes - 15.5 MBNews content & analysis is available in ever-growing quantities. While this can offer huge advantages, it poses several problems; how can you ensure you're accessing the most relevant content for you without being overwhelmed, while also remaining in touch with the latest ideas from various sources. Matt Partridge, founder of Infabode. Infabode is an online information platform for the global real estate market, connecting its users with companies producing market news and data, through an ...
Mark Robinson | Owner, Ellandi
July 01, 2018 23:00 - 37 minutes - 47.7 MBAs e-commerce continues to disrupt bricks-and-mortar retail, the story of the retail apocalypse or death of the high street has been mainstream news and this isn’t a phenomenon unique to the UK. I talk to Mark Robinson of Ellandi to see if we can find out: a) whether the situation is as dire as it is presented and b) what is the future of mainstream retail (i.e. everyday shopping, as opposed to destination retail). Mark founded Ellandi in 2008 and it is now now the UK’s leading investment m...
Ed Thomas | Head of Community Experience, The Collective
June 25, 2018 23:00 - 37 minutes - 33.1 MBAt the heart of Space-as-a-Service is the concept of community; an intangible benefit that extends beyond functional service provision and which will ultimately lead to customer happiness and therefore potentially higher retention rates and ultimately returns for investors. Ed Thomas views the central ethos of co-living as bringing community back into the heart of the home. When he joined Reza Merchant's The Collective in 2016, he was tasked with exactly that; creating a sense of community ...
Shain Shapiro | CEO & Founder, Sound Diplomacy
June 12, 2018 23:00 - 36 minutes - 16.8 MBDr Shain Shapiro is founder and CEO of Sound Diplomacy, bridging the gap between music and the world of policy and urban planning. Sound Diplomacy is the leader of the Music Cities movement, which sees culture built into the urban environment through an integrated music policy. Music is a universal language. While we all have individual tastes and preferences, it's an experience common to everyone. It can aid with early development, rehabilitation and healthy ageing. It's personal benefits...
Nathan Koren | Founder & CEO, Podaris
June 05, 2018 23:00 - 41 minutes - 19.2 MBNathan is an architect, transport planner, software engineer and entrepreneur. Having worked for many years as an architect specialising in sustainable transit-oriented developments, Nathan became interested in how new transportation technologies could positively influence urban design. This led him to work on planning and design stages of urban-scale Automated Transit Networks, before launching Podaris to tackle the issue of collaboration. There are several tools aiming to act as the singl...
Vanessa Butz | CEO & Founder, District
May 28, 2018 23:00 - 37 minutes - 17 MBVanessa Butz wrote her masters thesis on "Understanding the DNA of Strong Entrepreneurial Hubs” and took her theory into practice by helping to build large technology and co-working campuses - Factory Berlin and Market-Tech’s Interchange Camden. Having worked at the intersection of cities and technology, she then founded District, providing Real Estate owners with a subscription-as-a-service app-based technology to upgrade their buildings to be ready for the what she sees as the “smart city ...
Andrew Waugh | Founder, Waugh Thistleton Architects
April 30, 2018 23:00 - 36 minutes - 16.7 MBAndrew Waugh is a founder of Waugh Thistleton Architects and a pioneer of design in the field of timber buildings, using cross-laminated timber (CLT). Waugh Thistleton are committed to the use of timber construction which has earned them an international reputation in environmentally sustainable architecture and design. The practice has designed the world’s largest CLT building at Dalston Works – a 10 storey, 121 unit residential building, made entirely from CLT. WT are also currently worki...
James Dearsley | The Digital Marketing Bureau & PropTech Consult
April 23, 2018 23:00 - 33 minutes - 15.3 MBIn recent years, through a heavy social media presence, an active blog, a weekly newsletter and as a keynote speaker at global events, James Dearsley has managed to become almost synonymous with the UK PropTech scene. Beyond his public persona, James runs The Digital Marketing Bureau, providing tech-enabled marketing services, and PropTech Consult where he advises property companies on digital transformation strategies. While PropTech has gained a great deal of media (and investor) attenti...
Will Blakey | CEO, MyOfficeMove.co.uk
April 18, 2018 23:00 - 37 minutes - 17 MBWill Blakey is CEO of MOM (MyOfficeMove.co.uk), the online marketplace for moving office. Will is also an investor in start-ups, such as Den Automation - the innovative light switch & plug socket business - as well as being an online business and life coach (link here) with a mission to help people "become the best version of themselves & live the life they want". As an industry outside (Will's background was as varied entrepreneur in security, marketing and sales), Will is starting to sh...
Nick Fulford | Founder, nHouse
April 12, 2018 23:00 - 34 minutes - 15.8 MBNick Fulford has a background of over 20 years in sales & marketing. In 2017 he quit to set up the a modular housing concept, nHouse, together with award-winning architect, Richard Hywel Evans. As an industry new-comer, Nick is attempting to revolutionise an enormous market - the housebuilding market. 184,000 homes were built in England in 2016/17 so it's a big opportunity to play for, and there's government commitment to significantly increase this number. Set against the backdrop of a str...
Mark Farmer | CEO, CAST Consulting
April 05, 2018 23:00 - 37 minutes - 17.3 MBMark Farmer is Founding Director & CEO of Cast and a expert in the delivery of complex residential-led projects & modern methods of construction. Mark’s focus is on promoting modernisation within the construction industry through adoption of pre-manufacturing and more integrated & digitally-enabled delivery models. Besides founding his own rapidly-growing business, Mark also managed to find the time to author the October 2016 Government Review of the Construction Labour Market Model, entit...
Chris Choa | Chairman, ULI UK & Director, AECOM
March 22, 2018 00:00 - 38 minutes - 17.4 MBChris Choa is an urban architect and cities expert who thinks a big scale. Chris is Director of Cities at AECOM. He speaks frequently about urban performance and works with city and national governments to develop regional-scale strategies. A graduate of both Harvard and Yale, Chris also serves as Chairman of the UK Urban Land Institute and is on the external advisory board for the Sustainable Urban Development program at Oxford. He is an appointed advisor to the Mayor of London’s Infrastru...