What's The Big Idea podcast

For this episode of the 'What's The Big Idea', we are joined by Steve from CollectEco who discusses the distribution of items procured from sites. CollectEco are a distribution company of items that would typically be landfilled from site, this can range from the 'bread and butter' furniture, timber and metals to the extraordinary pianos. These items are taken from sites are distributed to developing schools, communities, hospitals and more. We discuss the difficulties of this transaction,...

Insight from Interface, flooring company, the first flooring company to achieve negative carbon in their products and have been putting tackling embodied carbon emissions at the heart of their climate mission. Guest speaker Becky Gordon. More information on Interface's climate mission can be found here https://www.interface.com/US/en-US/sustainability/climate-take-back-en_US

Today we hear from a Soulla Louizou, a design coordinator at Construction London & South, and Simon Waites, preconstruction manager at Construction Central South. Soulla will give us on update on how they are going about at inception stage on achieving Net Zero Carbon Buildings in operation, and Simon will give us a run through of what they have done to date, including their challenges for delivering the first Willmott Dixon net zero carbon in operation development for Wiltshire Council....

Hello, welcome to the What’s the Big Idea podcast series. This series will cover the three main aspirations of Now or Never sustainability strategy: · Brilliant Buildings, constructing and refurbishing buildings fit for current and future generations. · Building lives, supporting the people and businesses in our communities to thrive. · And; Better planet, creating a better planet for future generations. Topics will include making buildings net zero carbon for our customers, embedding...