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This week, Jeff, Alex and Dan are joined by Dr. Peter Rickaby, a man who should need little introduction to those who know the sector well, and to the listeners of our podcast, he's been on twice before.

To those less familiar with him, he's an expert in the sector, who's devoted a career to improving energy efficiency in the built environment in the UK with a particular interest in retrofit.

This week, rather than talk about a particular piece of work or technology, we wanted to talk about a slightly more esoteric subject: who can you trust? In other words, how difficult is to know what to do about anything. It's something we talk about amongst ourselves a lot, and presumably you our listeners find yourselves talking about much the same.

The challenge here can probably be best summed up by the endless heat pump debate, in which we're asked to often hold two contradictory and correct positions at the same time: every home can be heated by a heat pump vs. not every home is suitable for a heat pump. We thought Peter would be a great person to talk about it because of the length and breadth of his experience, and he's a great speaker.

We took in the housing market, heat pumps, hydrogen, retrofit, snake oil and more. In spite of our conversational meandering and rambling, we did actually manage to come up with, albeit a very short list, of people that we do think you can actually trust. Anyway, we hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did.

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This week we're joined by Dr. Oliver Kinnane and Dr. Richard O'Hegarty of University College Dublin to discuss their recently published paper: A whole life carbon analysis of the Irish residential sector - past, present and future.

In some ways it's quite a technical episode, delving into calculation methodology, but one tempered by lots of meandering diversions. The pair are academics who both occupy positions in the rarefied world of academia and can hold their own space at the coal face of the built environment, and this is one part of a body of work that is focused on unpicking the sort of detail that the industry really needs.

Their paper looks into carbon consumption in the residential sector, from both an operational and embodied perspective, forecasting results in line with Ireland's national development plan and climate action plan using a methodology that accounts for consumption, not just production.

Notes from the episode

• The paper we're discussing: A whole life carbon analysis of the Irish residential sector - past, present and future
• Their previous paper: Whole life carbon quantification of the built environment: Case study Ireland 
• Grant Chalmers' tweet illustrating changes in regional carbon consumption: April 2023 median carbon intensity gCO2eq/kWh) and power consumption breakdown (%). Data via Electricity Maps, table via R {gt} package.
• Another paper: Small Penises and Fast Cars: Evidence for a Psychological Link
• The Building in a Climate Emergency Research Lab

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This week Alex and Dan were joined by Emma Elston (Sustainability Associate) and Amandeep Singh Kalra (Associate Director) to talk about all things MMC (modern methods of construction).

The pair are working on some pioneering projects that are utilising MMC in order to deliver value throughout the supply chain, including a construction pattern book that could be of massive value to everyone involved, long into the future.

Notes from the episode

• Be First Regeneration website / LinkedIn
• The Be First design team's Instagram
• Modernise or Die by Mark Farmer 
• We haven't included the UK government website, as per Emma's recommendations (we're sure you'll be able to Google it though)
• Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A Moore

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For a change, it's an episode that mainly concerns sustainability for non-residential building design.

Friend of the show, James Woodall joined us to talk about his experiences in sustainable architecture in all its complexity, and how to help clients do better work by challenging briefs, asking difficult questions, and then help clients to answer those questions.

We also covered the untapped potential for rewarding positive outcomes by promoting them (i.e. a Michelin star guide for building performance), how the effectiveness of building design is impacted is affected by location and climate, the importance of understanding embodied carbon versus operational (and how the emphasis and importance of each is will flip at some point soon), and the great work LETI is doing in creating guidance for retrofitting commercial buildings.

Notes from the episode

• Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM)
• The paper about embodied carbon that we mention: A whole life carbon analysis of the Irish residential sector - past, present and future by Richard O Hegarty and Oliver Kinnane
• The LETI website, do check it and sign up to their mailing list, it's right there on the homepage.
  
  

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John Baguley, Director of Technical, Risk and Compliance at Countrywide Surveying Services joined us to talk about how sustainability in the built environment is being affected by market forces, and how energy efficiency is likely to impact market conditions.

A vastly experienced professional who has seen all sides of the industry his experience affords him a different perspective on all the usual angles. 

There are no simple solutions but we discussed how energy efficiency is affecting property valuations (well, it is and it isn't), how change is likely to be driven, and the writing that we're able to see on the wall.

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Events conspired against us this week and we didn't manage to get a recording together. Sorry.

In lieu of having something ready for you, we decided that we'd recommend some of the things that we're listening to. These are all personal recommendations, some related to our subjects, some not. They're all worth a listen though.

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The Blindboy Podcast - Topographica Hibernica

Web / Apple / Spotify link to episode

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Alex's recommendations

Evil Genius with Russel Kane - Marlon Brando

Apple / Spotify link to episode 

Guardian - Today in Focus Mouldy flats and bidding wars: how did the UK rental crisis get so bad?

Apple / Spotify link to episode 

The History of the English Podcast (Alex just said it’s worth working through this one from the start)
Apple / Spotify link to episode 

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Jeff's recommendations

Lex Fridman Podcast - Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI

Apple / Spotify link to episode 

Lex Fridman Podcast - Eliezer Yudkowsky: Dangers of AI and the End of Human Civilisation 

Apple / Spotify / YouTube link to episode 

The Blindboy Podcast - Witches Piss and Horses Skulls

Web / Apple / Spotify link to episode

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Dan's recommendations

Tech Won’t Save Us - Why Green Capitalism Won’t Fix Climate Change w/ Adrienne Buller

Website / Apple / Spotify link to episode  

Ten Thousand Posts - Posting through the Housing Crisis

Apple /Spotify link to episode  

Trashfuture - Busting Offsets feat Dr Jess Green

Apple / Spotify link to episode  

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This week we're with Marion Baeli, an architect who is a retrofit pioneer, a partner at PDP London, a board member of the Passive House Trust, and the author of seminal retrofit-related text Residential Retrofit: 20 Case Studies.

Some time ago we saw her posting about the impact DPEs are having on the property market in France and we realised that we had to have her on.

We talk about the imminent reprise of her book, a look back at ten of those case studies and the lessons learned since (that's how we justified the clickbaity "mistakes" in the title, it's more about lessons than mistakes, that's why we added the question mark).

We also discuss progress and the significant changes that the retrofit industry has seen since the book was first published in 2012 (air source heat pumps, as it turns out).

Obviously, we talk about EPCs and DPEs too.

Notes from the episode

• Marion Baeli on LinkedIn and on the PDP website
• Le Monde Sans Fin - the french comic book about
• Princedale Road retrofit project in Passive House Plus and on PDP's own website
• The Scottish Housing News podcast we guested on, about the impact of passive house policy there, where we met Andrew Kubski who we reference; it's worth a listen
• Sara's podcast Accelerate to Zero, produced at BE-ST, on Apple or Spotify
  
  

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In this episode, we had the pleasure of Dr. Barry McCarron's company, from his car, during a break in the conference he was attending.

If you’re looking for an inspiring journey into academia and leadership in low-energy building, Barry’s story has you covered. We also talk about how passive house certification appears to mitigate risk from radon, the impact of further education (as opposed to academia), and how proper systems design is essential to making even passive houses work properly.

Barry earned his doctorate at Queens University Belfast in a piece of academic research of real consequence: comparing the levels of the deadly cancer-causing gas radon in passive houses to other dwellings.

Radon, the radioactive gas which kills roughly as many people as road deaths in Ireland, can increase in low-energy buildings. Barry's research covered why passive houses appear to buck the trend, itself something of a proxy for the wider ventilation conversation.

Now at South West College in Enniskillen - who recently developed the groundbreaking passive house premium-certified Erne Campus - he is the chair of the Passive House Association of Ireland and is doing powerful work to bridge the gap between academia and the construction industry.

Notes from the episode

• Passive House Association of Ireland
• South West College  
• Crest Centre (Centre for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology)
  
  

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Our guest on this episode is Helena Fitzgerald, a passive house designer, and architect whose experience of building her own passive house led her to move beyond architecture.

Taking a stance on passive house - as an attempt to be green - prompted self-reflection in Helena, which took her career off on what might seem a wild tangent. Now a research fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Limerick, Helena's new direction is focused on equitable, community-centric, scalable sustainability.

Helena's home is a striking, architect-designed, one-off passive house. It's a home beyond reproach in terms of energy efficiency, although we might query the stove today, knowing what we now know about biomass. That said, its rural location bakes in car dependency and renders it a home that couldn't be for everyone - criticisms that are addressed directly, and thematically, in the course of our conversation.

As ever, it was a roving conversation with familiar themes: the importance of acting in a manner that is results-driven to guarantee desirable outcomes; technology on its own isn't enough, systemic solutions and localised community engagement are just as integral.

We even start nudging at revolution.

Notes from the episode

• Helena's passive home
• Citizen Innovation Lab - Limerick
• Smart Lab Limerick

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This week we’re talking space heating, with John Morehead of Wain Morehead Architects.

Last week Jeff had hoped to talk about the absurd space heating assumptions in the standardised calculations that go into things like EPCs and BERs, so we decided to dedicate this week's episode to it. Jeff's been keen to get John on for a while, so it seemed like a prim opportunity to tempt him to join us, and it worked.

That said, we didn't talk much about those assumptions and, unexpectedly, we started with a discussion of Feng shui. Don't worry though, we quickly segue into the discussion about space heating and the use of infrared heating as a complementary heating system.

It should be said that with the appropriate design strategies and post-occupancy assessment in place, there are massive opportunities to create spaces that better suit a user’s comfort needs, as well as making them more energy efficient, which will save money.

There's not much by way of show notes, we kept it mainly anecdotal. However, he did ask us to plug TUD's Master of Science in Building Performance (Energy Efficiency in Design).

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Here we go, part two of last week's recording with returning guests, Bill Bordass and Adrian Leaman.

This continues our response to that Times article that was doing the rounds last week, now looking at what we should be doing, in lieu of appropriate and demanding guidance from the institutions that dictate terms.

We pick up where we left off. Enjoy.

Notes from the episode

• The Usable Buildings website
• The article that sparked the episode - EPCs are a national scandal, from The Times 
• Newly Restored: E.F. Schumacher on Film (1977)
• Energy Performance of Non-Domestic Buildings: Closing the Credibility Gap
• Energy Performance in Use Government Policy
• Building performance evaluation in the UK: So many false dawns
• Buildings the Key to Energy Conservation (1979) 
• How Big Things Get Done: The Surprising Factors Behind Every Successful Project, from Home Renovations to Space Exploration (2023), by the unpronouncable Bent Flyvbjerg and Dan Gardner  - 'Would have been better if they had not eulogised Gehry and toned down the hyperbole', as reviewed by Adrian
• The chart that Jeff refers to again from The Energy Performance Survey of Irish Housing
• Sleepwalking into unsustainability, a presentation
• The National Retrofit Hub LinkedIn page

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This week we've got a two-parter for you with returning guests, Bill Bordass and Adrian Leaman.

At first, we thought we'd do an episode in response to that Times article that was doing the rounds last week, and we did. It just didn't turn out as we expected.

At the last minute, we asked Bill Bordass and Adrian Leaman if they'd like to join us. Jeff had remembered just how deeply those guys had been involved in the subject of energy performance assessment, so we asked them, they were free, and we were delighted.

Bill and Adrian were really generous with their time, hence us having enough for two episodes this week. The first part (this one) was mainly spent looking into the past while Bill regaled us with a tale of what might have been, how EPCs came to be what they are, and where it all went wrong. Part two is more focused on how we might do better in the future.

It has a particular UK focus but the themes are universal. There are lots of lessons that we can learn from the tension between modeling and estimation, and the reality of how buildings perform in use.

We start the episode proper about seven or eight minutes in, so you can jump ahead, but you may miss Adrian's story about his energy efficiency tour behind the Iron Curtain and Albanian refugee defectors.

Notes from the episode

• The Usable Buildings website
• The article that sparked the episode - EPCs are a national scandal, from The Times 
• CIBSE TM 22 
• Buildings the Key to Energy Conservation (1979) 
• The chart that Jeff starts talking about from The Energy Performance Survey of Irish Housing
• Energy Performance of Non-Domestic Buildings: Closing the Credibility Gap

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We sat down with Ele George and Emily Braham to talk about all things Energiesprong and how they're making things happen for other people in the retrofit industry. They don't have all the answers, but they're determinedly seeking them with the right questions.

Energiesprong UK is a project that's finding ways to mitigate the myriad barriers to improving people's homes, reducing maintenance costs, and developing robust supply chains. From finance to manufacturing, managing relationship-between tenants and landlords, they're prototyping ideas and developing processes that are catalysing a nascent retrofit industry.

Importantly, a fascinating outcome of the novel approach that they're taking is how it supports inclusion and diversity, without even having to make an additional effort.

They are full of ideas. We learned a lot and were imbued with a massive sense of hope after speaking with them, enjoy.

Notes from the episode

• Energiesprong UK website
• The passive house that Raphael built

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For almost two decades transatlantic commentator  Lloyd Alter has been the rarest of creatures: a popular writer of insightful articles about green building, mainly via the pioneering green living website Treehugger.com.

The day before our interview, Lloyd and the rest of the editorial team at Treehugger were told to clear their desks, due to a change in business model that focused more on search engine algorithms, and less on the kind of nuanced, considered pieces that have made Lloyd so renowned.

We caught up with Lloyd to reflect on his time at Treehugger. We set out to talk about the state of reporting and publishing in the green building sector but the discussion ended up covering a lot of other ground, ranging from perhaps the most boneheaded culture war of all – the gas cooker variety - to the shortsighted lack of design consideration for aging populations.

Roaming cross-cultural perspectives on the built environment, sufficiency, consumption, change, the language of green building, gas stove outrage, transport, adaptation for aging populations, and plenty more.

Notes from the episode

• Lloyd Alter on Treehugger 
• Up Front Carbon, Lloyd Alter on Substack
• "Caledon homes come laden with luxury" the article about McMansions that Lloyd decries early on
• That Observer article about retrofit with our very own Sara Edmonds in it
• George Monbiot's wood-burning confessional
• Lloyd Alter on LinkedIn
• Fanchea Kelly was the lady from the CIH podcast; she's CEO Blackwood Homes and Care, a charity that deals with retrofit in terms of accessibility rather than energy efficiency
• Sanctuary magazine 
• The Heat is On, Ryan Philp's Substack
• Goldsmith Street social housing 

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We like Kate Simpson, a doctor and a Research Associate at the School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London.

It was a bit of a weird episode where the conversation didn't really go to plan and, at times, Jeff found himself being interviewed by our guest. It was good though.

From a researcher's perspective, we discussed what motivates retrofit consumers and suppliers, as well as the potential for and nature of retrofit one-stop shops.

Notes from the episode

• Michael Gove dancing
• That rhizome concept
• The Green Register (Bristol)
• A bad-quality retrofit LinkedIn post
• Another bad-quality retrofit LinkedIn post
• The PH+ article about getting tradespeople into retrofit 

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We had a contentious discussion last Friday about hybrid heating systems, a transition technology that could play a role in the decarbonisation of home heating.

Stephen Kelly of OYA Energy joined us for a grilling from a very skeptical Jeff, to make his case for the use of heat pumps alongside legacy gas boilers. It's important to note that this is intended as a transition technology, not an ultimate end.

Also, we do not discuss hydrogen as a hybrid heating solution, for obvious reasons.

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Back in the summer Glasgow-based architect Chris Stewart became the new President of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), so a chat with him was right up our street.

He has long been a strong advocate for the incorporation of sustainability into architectural practice and education, so when Sara found herself on a tour of Shetland in his company she seized an opportunity to book him for the show.

As an individual with a strong track record in ecological design for the built environment, we were delighted to hear about his plans for his premiership and were particularly enthused by his eagerness and willingness to instigate some very necessary change.

Some references from the show

• Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland
• Christ Stewart
• Collective Architecture (Glasgow)

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In our last episode from BE-ST Fest 2022 Alex and Eddie McAvinchey (Scottish National Investment Bank) explore the funding stages available to companies, from concept to commercial scale, as well as the role of the Scottish National Investment Bank in supporting innovative supply chain companies, housing projects, heat networks, and more.

ICYMI - BE-ST Fest 2022 was a day of inspiring speakers, expos, demos, workshops, and other activities, aimed at promoting and advancing our journey to a zero-carbon built environment.

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• Eddie McAvinchey
• Sunamp
• IndiNature
• PFP Capital 
• BE-ST Fest 2022

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In episode four of our mini-series, the ZAP team and Christina Gaiger discuss the need for a shift in perception within the industry of the domestic market and how it must become more accessible in order to achieve net zero.

ICYMI - BE-ST Fest 2022 was a day of inspiring speakers, expos, demos, workshops, and other activities, aimed at promoting and advancing our journey to a zero-carbon built environment.

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• Christina Gaiger
• BE-ST Fest 2022
• Useable buildings.org

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Episode three of our mini-series from BE-ST Fest 2022, where we spoke with Jennifer Phin, MD of energy-efficiency contractor A.C. Whyte & Co.  

Following her appearance on the BE connected panel discussion, she shared more of her experiences of her leading a retrofit business in a rapidly changing environment.

ICYMI - BE-ST Fest 2022 was a day of inspiring speakers, expos, demos, workshops, and other activities, aimed at promoting and advancing our journey to a zero-carbon built environment.

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• Jennifer Phin
• A.C. Whyte & Co 

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