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Romy Rawlings is the Commercial Director at Vestre. She is a Chartered Landscape Architect with lots of experience as a consultant, designer, project manager and researcher. Romy has an enduring belief in the value that the external environment offers to everyone who engages with it. Romy believes we are not on track to hit our Net Zero carbon goals. She agrees that people are taking steps in the right direction […]
David Lewis is the Operations & Finance Director for Ironstone Asset Management Limited. Life Sciences is a topic that is growing at an increasing rate and one in which David takes a particular interest. He believes that there is a lack of suitable office and lab space in the UK. Together with his team, they try to create space for science. They focus on what they call the golden triangle, […]
Adrienne Bloch is the ESG, Managing Director for Bloch Solutions. She was a chairperson at the event. Her talk was entitled MMC delivers massive carbon savings. After reviewing post-construction evaluations and analysis for projects such as George Street and The Valentine, there is enough evidence to accurately say that when compared to traditional builds, modular construction results in a significant reduction in embodied carbon emissions. Adrienne believes that modular construction […]
Episode 35: FOOTPRINT+ Special 4 With Interviews From The Event We really enjoyed being at the Footprint+ event earlier this month. Speaking to so many different people with the same goal was really refreshing. We still have one more episode to bring you, plus a couple of bonus episodes!If you missed any interviews from the event, you can catch them on the previous specials one, two and three.To begin the […]
Mike Harrison is the Delivery Director at U+I. He was a chairperson at the event. His talk was entitled Concretene: Graphene-enriched concrete lowering cement and carbon emissions. Developed by the University of Manchester’s Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre, Concretene is a type of concrete that is significantly stronger. This allows designers to propose concrete mixes with lower cement content driving down the embodied carbon of one of construction’s most relied upon […]
Next up, Steve Randall spoke to Martin Hale about EV charging. Martin Hale is the Sales Director for RAW Charging. Electric charging is a trending topic as we move from fuel sources such as diesel and petrol to more environmentally friendly sources such as electricity. More people are demanding these EV chargers on company sites. As with most new inventions challenges exist such as location and sources of power. RAW […]
As Sustainability Director at Thakeham Group, Josie Cadwallader-Hughes is responsible for keeping Thakeham at the leading edge, building partnerships with distinguished organisations with a long history of championing change, and advising on a number of cross-industry programmes enabling zero carbon placemaking. Josie is the sustainability director for the Thakeham Group. She was a keynote speaker at the event. Her talk was entitled Low-cost all-electric homes. As we are heading for […]
FOOTPRINT+ Special 3 With Interviews From The Event We were delighted to be a media partner at FOOTPRINT+ which was a hugely successful event. We still have a number of interviews to bring you.If you wish to catch up on the earlier specials from FOOTPRINT+, go to Special 1 and Special 2.To kick off this third special episode, Steve Randall spoke to Josie Cadwallader-Hughes about Zero-Carbon homesAs Sustainability Director at […]
Meet two young people in the Construction industry, Shane Orme and Serena Gugliotta of WSP. Pete the Builder spoke to both about the goal of net zero and the importance of collaboration in order to achieve it. Shane Orme is the net zero lead for building services at WSP and Serena Gugliotta is a net zero change maker and Façade Engineer at WSP. Shane is very motivated and believes that […]
