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Battery storage, lancing boilers, and decentralised energy grids: a Decent way to manage your electricity, with Tom Cox and Sally Sattary (Decent Energy)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	69:16
Translating retrofit for normal people, with retrofit influencer Judith Leary Joyce (Eco Home Retrofit)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	87:38
Embodied carbon and how sustainable is MMC? With Richard O'Hegarty (RKD, UCD) and Oliver Kinnane (UCD)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	86:46
Can we meet the skills gap the way we currently deliver training and what is the purpose of education? With Nathan Gambling (BetaTalk and BetaTeach)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	72:15
There is methodology for defining what ‘net zero carbon’ means for buildings in the UK and it looks great, with Jess Hrivnak (RIBA), Jane Anderson (ConstructionLCA), and Julie Godefroy (CIBSE)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	43:13
A 'global' standard for residential retrofit? With Paul Bagust (RICS Head of Property Standards), Steven Lees (RICS Senior Specialist - Residential Survey), and Robert Toomey (RICS Senior Public Affai	Zero Ambitions Podcast	82:50
Can we address the decarbonisation of homes by focusing on health? With Jenny Danson (Healthy Homes Hub)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	66:04
Innovating and maturing: Loco Home Retrofit is an "emerging" retrofit one-stop-shop, with co-founder Chris Carus	Zero Ambitions Podcast	68:28
Eliminate construction waste – Loop Your Spare instead: circular thinking and platform technology that reduces the cost of construction for everyone, with Jay Stuart	Zero Ambitions Podcast	73:11
Speeding up external wall insulation installation and preparing a retrofit start-up for scale, with Max Bloomfield (VundaHaus) and Alex Whitcroft (KIN; VundaHaus)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	71:18
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 Engineers)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	82:39
Why we need to tell better stories about the built environment, with Liz Male (LMC)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	75:35
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)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	85:56
Performance guarantees, measuring what works, and EPC reform, with Steven Heath (Knauf Insulation)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	87:43
Sustainability, sufficiency, and sequestration – the language we use and what it means, with Lloyd Alter	Zero Ambitions Podcast	68:21
Developers can build sustainably and at scale, if they want to. With Nicola Cronin and Stephen O'Shea (Cairn Homes Plc)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	71:20
How can we embed sustainable design into the construction process? With Mhairi Grant (Paper Igloo)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	70:01
Why is making UK homes more efficient so difficult? Leyla Boulton (Green Conservation; Financial Times)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	66:44
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)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	65:50
Net zero neighbourhoods and financing change, with Cat Magill (Living Places)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	70:55
Running a successful retrofit one-stop-shop isn't easy but it can be done, with Caroline Ashe Brady (KORE Retrofit)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	76:22
The challenging life of a retrofit coordinator: problems with process, products, and performance, with returning champion Lisa Pasquale	Zero Ambitions Podcast	73:50
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)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	89:10
Building better performance: raising construction standards on site and in education, with Joseph Little (TUD)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	82:39
Retrofit as a movement for social change (there's more to it all than fabric and finance), with Dan Hill (Dark Matter Labs)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	73:09
Place-based hybrid finance to rebuild Ukraine and catalyse better building standards everywhere, with Iva Merheim Eyre (SMARTER4EU)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	71:08
Peter Rickaby returns to ZAP: a lot of words about energy, retrofit, and natural building materials, all the way from South Africa	Zero Ambitions Podcast	80:52
The UK has a weird relationship with heat pumps: under appreciated influencers, wild pricing, and bad vibes. With Andrew Sissons (Nesta)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	81:03
Building with straw on a continental scale and experiencing retrofit as a resident. With Cypren Edmunds (European Straw Building Association)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	76:34
The energy performance of buildings matters, to me and EU and everyone we know, with Ciarán Cuffe (MEP)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	51:04
A new way to measure performance, negative energy use, and learning from disaster zones, with Kate Crawford (KLH Sustainability)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	77:08
Designing for deconstruction using natural building materials. With Chloe Donovan (Natural Building Systems)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	72:39
Monitoring will make your buildings be worth more money, Utopi has proved it, with Falk Bleyl (CTO at Utopi)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	80:21
“Use less stuff”: embodied carbon, value chains and the potential for change in the Declaration de Chaillot. With Lloyd Alter (Carbon Upfront), Kelly Alvarez Doran (Ha/f Climate Design), and Will Arno	Zero Ambitions Podcast	76:05
What do we do about ‘the office’? A retrofit challenge we don't speak about enough. With Harry Browne and Séamus Guidera (RKD)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	80:03
Fundamental problems in building design and how we manage thermal comfort, with Susan Roaf (Heriot-Watt; ICARB)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	93:08
Fabric fifth: rethinking the hierarchy of retrofit, with Nigel Banks (Octopus Energy)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	70:20
Retrofit: "We need to tackle low hanging fruit first", so what does that mean? With Fionn Stevenson	Zero Ambitions Podcast	88:14
Natural materials, healthier homes, and the culture of sustainable building, with Will Kirkman (Ecomerchant)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	76:15
Engineering low-impact buildings and advice from self build, with Tara Fraser (Build Collective)	Zero Ambitions Podcast	60:16

Battery storage, lancing boilers, and decentralised energy grids: a Decent way to manage your electricity, with Tom Cox and Sally Sattary (Decent Energy)

Zero Ambitions Podcast

69:16

Translating retrofit for normal people, with retrofit influencer Judith Leary Joyce (Eco Home Retrofit)

Zero Ambitions Podcast

87:38

Embodied carbon and how sustainable is MMC? With Richard O'Hegarty (RKD, UCD) and Oliver Kinnane (UCD)

Zero Ambitions Podcast

86:46

Can we meet the skills gap the way we currently deliver training and what is the purpose of education? With Nathan Gambling (BetaTalk and BetaTeach)

Zero Ambitions Podcast

72:15