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Zero Ambitions Podcast

@ZeroAmbitions21

Zero Ambitions is a podcast about sustainability and the built environment. We have guests who know what they're talking about. We're more active on LinkedIn.

 Dublin, Peckham, Hastings
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Joined October 2021
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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: A 'global' standard for residential retrofit, with Paul Bagust (RICS Head of Property Standards), Steven Lees (RICS Senior Specialist - Residential Survey), and Robert Toomey (R.... Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/4fa6d0…
A 'global' standard for residential retrofit? With Paul Bagust (RICS...

A 'global' standard for residential retrofit? With Paul Bagust (RICS...

Last year the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) released its residential retrofit standard. Given that they're one of the construction industry's oldest, largest, and most influential...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: Can we address the decarbonisation of homes by focusing on health? With Jenny Danson (Healthy Homes Hub). Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/c2bd5c…
Can we address the decarbonisation of homes by focusing on health?...

Can we address the decarbonisation of homes by focusing on health?...

Can we address the decarbonisation of homes by focusing on health? That's the mission that Jenny Danson has set for herself in establishing Healthy Homes Hub, and it's a question that manages to...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: Innovating and maturing: Loco Home Retrofit is an "emerging" retrofit one-stop-shop, with co-founder Chris Carus . Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/01f955…
Innovating and maturing: Loco Home Retrofit is an "emerging" retrofit...

Innovating and maturing: Loco Home Retrofit is an "emerging" retrofit...

Joining us on Zero Ambitions this week is Chris Carus co-founder of Loco Home Retrofit, a Glasgow-based 'emerging one-step shop'. Loco Home Retrofit is a retrofit operation that's most interesting...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: Eliminate construction waste – Loop Your Spare instead: circular thinking and platform technology that reduces the cost of construction for everyone, with Jay Stuart. Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/bddca0…
Eliminate construction waste – Loop Your Spare instead: circular...

Eliminate construction waste – Loop Your Spare instead: circular...

The first episode of January 2025 marks the long overdue, first appearance of Jay Stuart, a long-time friend and colleague of Jeff and a firm fixture of the green building scene in Ireland.  Jay...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: Speeding up external wall insulation installation and preparing a retrofit start-up for scale, with Max Bloomfield (VundaHaus) and Alex Whitcroft (KIN; VundaHaus). Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/85d475…
Speeding up external wall insulation installation and preparing a...

Speeding up external wall insulation installation and preparing a...

What's it like trying to scale a retrofit start-up? This episode welcomes Max Bloomfield and Alex Whitcroft, two of the folks from VundaHaus, to talk about their product, its ongoing design and...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: Experiments in low-carbon retrofit for a high-status building (with a basement), with Natalie Black (Enbee Architecture + Design) and Toby McLean (Allt Environmental Structural .... Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/0a6086…
Experiments in low-carbon retrofit for a high-status building (with a...

Experiments in low-carbon retrofit for a high-status building (with a...

This week's episode is all about the lessons learned in carrying out a low-carbon retrofit. Natalie Black (Enbee Architecture + Design) and Toby McLean (Allt Environmental Structural Engineers)...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: Why we need to tell better stories about the built environment, with Liz Male (LMC). Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/2abef3…
Why we need to tell better stories about the built environment, with...

Why we need to tell better stories about the built environment, with...

Our guest, Liz Male has been on our radar for a while. She is a figure who has been working in the construction sector since the 1990s, an ally to the sustainability sector, a great communicator, and...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: Don't Waste Buildings, which means retrofitting them and building them better. With Leanne Tritton (Ing Media), Will Hurst (Architect's Journal), and Richard Nelson (Abyss Global). Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/ba2ae1…
Don't Waste Buildings, which means retrofitting them and building...

Don't Waste Buildings, which means retrofitting them and building...

Apologies for the delay, the lost podcast has been returned and is ready for release. 'Don't Waste Buildings' should be a straightforward proposition. It seems obvious. Especially so in the face of...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: Performance guarantees, measuring what works, and EPC reform, with Steven Heath (Knauf Insulation). Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/e1966c…
Performance guarantees, measuring what works, and EPC reform, with...

Performance guarantees, measuring what works, and EPC reform, with...

This week we're speaking with Steven Heath, technical director at Knauf Insulation (UK and Ireland) and a really interesting and experienced person in the sector. So while we had him, we ran through...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: Sustainability, sufficiency, and sequestration – the language we use and what it means, with Lloyd Alter. Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/ec6e8e…
Sustainability, sufficiency, and sequestration – the language we use...

Sustainability, sufficiency, and sequestration – the language we use...

A long-overdue episode with friend of the show, Lloyd Alter, about a blog he wrote and his book "The Story of Upfront Carbon". We get into the language of sustainability, carbon, and lots of the...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: Developers can build sustainably and at scale, if they want to. With Nicola Cronin and Stephen O'Shea (Cairn Homes Plc). Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/a6007b…
Developers can build sustainably and at scale, if they want to. With...

Developers can build sustainably and at scale, if they want to. With...

A wise woman once said: "sustainability is the doing, ESG is the talking about it". Today an Irish house-building giant has made a major move on Passive House — publishing a positioning paper and...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: How can we embed sustainable design into the construction process? With Mhairi Grant (Paper Igloo). Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/e82ba9…
How can we embed sustainable design into the construction process?...

How can we embed sustainable design into the construction process?...

Jeff invited Mhairi Grant, co founder of award-winning architectural practice Paper Igloo, to join us to talk about the challenges of ensuring that one's ideas for sustainable design actually make...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: Why is making UK homes more efficient so difficult? Leyla Boulton (Financial Times). Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/4cc9a9…
Why is making UK homes more efficient so difficult? Leyla Boulton...

Why is making UK homes more efficient so difficult? Leyla Boulton...

Why is making UK homes more efficient so difficult? So asked journalist Leyla Boulton earlier this year in the pages of the Financial Times. Seeing a retrofit article in the FT piqued our interest,...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: What can we do about waste in construction? Diversion from landfill isn't enough and there's money to be made. With Chris Clarke (SCAPE). Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/c90d0a…
What can we do about waste in construction? Diversion from landfill...

What can we do about waste in construction? Diversion from landfill...

In the UK every day the construction industry produces enough waste to fill a football stadium. Rightly, former guest, Chris Clarke (SCAPE) has got a bee in his bonnet about construction waste and is...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: Net zero neighbourhoods and financing change, with Cat Magill (Living Places). Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/badb02…
Net zero neighbourhoods and financing change, with Cat Magill (Living...

Net zero neighbourhoods and financing change, with Cat Magill (Living...

Something-like twelve months on from inception we thought we'd catch up with what's happening at Living Places, the multi-disciplinary, impact-focused consultancy co-founded by this week's guest Cat...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: Running a successful retrofit one-stop-shop isn't easy but it can be done, with Caroline Ashe Brady (KORE Retrofit). Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/9edfd3…
Running a successful retrofit one-stop-shop isn't easy but it can be...

Running a successful retrofit one-stop-shop isn't easy but it can be...

This week's guest is Caroline Ashe Brady of KORE Retrofit in Ireland, one of the objectively successful one-stop-shop retrofit providers to have emerged over the past few years. Caroline is a...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: The challenging life of a retrofit coordinator: problems with process, products, and performance, with returning champion Lisa Pasquale (Six Cylinder Limited). Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/d58620…
The challenging life of a retrofit coordinator: problems with...

The challenging life of a retrofit coordinator: problems with...

Returning champion Lisa Ann Pasquale rejoins us on Zero Ambitions to talk about dogs and retrofit. Mainly retrofit though. Informed by Lisa's experiences as a retrofit coordinator, technical lead at...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: What should we do to get more women into retrofit? Well, we should get behind 'Her Retrofit Space', with Ellora Coupe (Her Own Space and now Her Retrofit Space). Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/ec550e…
What should we do to get more women into retrofit? Well, we should...

What should we do to get more women into retrofit? Well, we should...

Returning champion Ellora Coupe joins us to talk about the recent report that Her Own Space has published about the place of women in the retrofit sector, which is heartening, insightful, and damning...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: Building better performance: raising construction standards on site and in education, with Joseph Little (TUD). Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/a8b2fd…
Building better performance: raising construction standards on site...

Building better performance: raising construction standards on site...

This week we're going by Joseph Little, Head of Construction & Building Performance in the School of Architecture, Building and Environment at TU Dublin. He joined us to talk about the journey he's...

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New episode of Zero Ambitions Podcast is up: Retrofit as a movement for social change (there's more to it all than fabric and finance), with Dan Hill (Dark Matter Labs). Hope you enjoy share.transistor.fm/s/61cd51…
Retrofit as a movement for social change (there's more to it all than...

Retrofit as a movement for social change (there's more to it all than...

This week we're thinking about retrofit differently with Dan Hill from Dark Matter Labs (DML). Or rather, we're talking about retrofit's potential to become a movement for social change. In reality,...

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