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In this episode I catch up with Edoardo Anastasia, head of designs at JP Crafts here in New Zealand; we talk about him growing up in Italy, his dad running a restaurant,  how he got into the design of boats and what the future looks like for him and his family. Its a great conversation I do hope you enjoy it!

If you want to find out more about Edoardo, here is his LinkedIn profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/edanastasia/
The website for JP Crafts where he works as a Naval Architect is here:

https://www.jpcrafts.co/

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In our first episode of Season 2 Lizzie Davidson talks to me about the start of my company, Honoris Ltd, and our growth over the past 5 years. With candid insights, we navigate through the formative years of the company, exploring its evolution and milestones achieved over the past half-decade.

Get ready for a conversation spanning from the past to my dreams for tomorrow.

Relevant links:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lizzie-davidson-writer/

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The final episode of our sustainability mini-series is with Sam Archer.

Sam is a Sustainability Consultant and Mechanical Engineer with over 20 years experience in the Construction Industry. He moved to New Zealand in July 2014 and is now Director of Market Transformation at the New Zealand Green Building Council with a responsibility for running their sustainability and energy assessment tools - Green Star, Homestar, HomeFit and Nabers.

 Sam has a particular passion for sustainable housing having spent 6 years creating and managing the sustainability framework for a 3,000 home development for the University of Cambridge in the UK.

 He also has extensive experience of sustainability and energy strategies, including carbon policy work for the UK and New Zealand governments, sustainable urban design and low energy and passive building design.

Links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-archer-18839b8a/
NZ Green Building Council: https://nzgbc.org.nz/

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Professor Susan Krumdieck

PhD  Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder 

MS Mechanical Engineering and Energy Systems, Arizona State University 

BSE Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University 

New Zealand Order of Merit Queens New Years Honours 2020 

Professor Krumdieck is Chair in Energy Transition Engineering at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland where she is offering a range of education and international online training, and leads the Transition Engineering Labs Research of the Islands Centre for Net Zero. The ICNZ was announced in 2021 with £33M in core and matching funding to realise transition to climate-safe energy in the Scottish Islands by 2030. Before taking the position in Scotland, Susan made major contributions in energy transition engineering research and was active in support of industry, local and central government, and communities through her Advanced Energy and Material Systems Lab research group. 

Susan is the co-founder and a Trustee of the Global Association for Transition Engineering (GATE). Transition Engineering is an emerging transdiscipline that, like Safety Engineering, has straight-forward methods and tools for duty of care in meeting sustainability objectives and dealing positively with wicked problems in all sectors. Susan has more than 160 peer reviewed publications, and her book Transition Engineering, Building a Sustainable Future (CRC Press, 2020) has received great reviews and sold more than 40,000 copies.  

Transition Engineering is growing rapidly with more than 20 PhDs, 500+ engineers completing the training courses, thousands of people from all backgrounds completing on-line microcredentials at University of Canterbury in New Zealand, and a new Masters and research centre at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland. Susan’s pioneering research over 25 years has provided insight, fundamentals of engineering whole systems transitions, and innovations in data observatories and engineering tools for transition of personal and freight transport and energy. She is probably most well-known for providing frank and politically agnostic information about technology or energy problems and options. 

https://www.transitionengineering.org/
https://www.aemslab.org.nz/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260265974_From_the_Ground_Up

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Jon Davies
Jon has recently rejoined Proclima in an education and technical role across the Australasian market. Proclima is a manufacturer of building materials related to the building enclosure -weather-tightness and airtightness in roof wall and floor for both new and existing buildings.

His background is in building - starting out as an adult carpentry apprentice. He then moved into building materials procurement and analysis. During the past 4 years working as a Building Enclosure Consultant at Oculus Architectural Engineering he completed a Master of Architecture degree investigating retrofitting occupied housing.

He was also the laboratory manager of Shelby Wright Test Labs - testing facades, claddings, windows and other materials for weather-tightness and structural integrity. Now back into an education-focused role he combines his original profession of teaching with knowledge and experience in the construction industry.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-davies-5955a543/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/parka-wrap-ltd

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Matthew Cutler-Welsh
Matthew is the Business development manager - residential at the NZGBC working with Homestar and HomeFit. Matthew's mission is to inspire people to make a better place to live.

After completing his Honours Degree in Natural Resources Engineering Matthew now has 15 years of experience leading residential energy efficiency projects and education programmes in New Zealand and Australia. In 2016 he joined the Board of the Passive House Institute New Zealand.

An experienced presenter, facilitator and podcaster, Matthew has interviewed over 200 architects, builders and industry experts from around the World on the Home Style Green podcast. He is also the co-host of the Passive House Podcast.

Prior to training as an engineer, Matthew was an Outward Bound instructor in New Zealand and the US.

Links:
Matthew's LinkedIn profile is https://www.linkedin.com/in/mcutlerwelsh/

His personal website is a bit out of date at the moment, but you can still find a back catalogue of interviews with architects, builders and sustainability professionals here: https://homestylegreen.com/

Links discussed in the show:

 https://www.building.govt.nz/getting-started/building-for-climate-change/

 https://www.nzgbc.org.nz/homestar

Other links are:

https://nzgbc.org.nz/introduction-to-homestar

https://passivehouseaccelerator.com/

https://passivehouse.nz/

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Sophie Howe
Described by The Guardian as ‘the Worlds First Minister of the Unborn’ Sophie Howe was the worlds first Future Generations Commissioner and for last seven years has held a legal mandate to be the ‘guardian of the interests of the future generations of Wales.’ In this role she has led high profile interventions holding the Government to account on how they have considered future generations in their policy making and has secured fundamental changes to transport planning and education policies ensuring they are fit for the future generations. She has served as an Adviser to two of Wales First Ministers as an adviser to the UN Secretary General on governance for intergenerational equity and has influenced the development of similar legislation in Scotland and Ireland and a UK Future Generations Bill. She is a TED speaker and has shared platforms with HRH Prince Williams Hollywood Superstars Michael Sheen and Chris Hemsworth as well as The Pope. She was named as no 5 the BBC Women’s Power List 2020.

She runs her own consultancy business supporting governments and progressive corporates to implement sustainability wellbeing and future generations thinking. She is a Global Ambassador for the Wellbeing Economics Alliance and holds roles advising on wellbeing economics and anticipatory governance with the School of International Futures and Apolitical supporting 150k public officials across the world to develop skills for 21st century governments.

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Patrick Bellew
RDI FREng FCIBSE FEI HonFRIBA  
Founder and Chairman of international design consultancy Atelier Ten 

Patrick studied at Bath, graduating in 1981 from an integrated design course that blended MEP Engineering, Environmental Design and Architecture. At 30 and after working at Buro Happold for a period he set up Atelier Ten, a design consultancy that has grown to more than 350 staff in 11 offices and has become synonymous with high performance integrated building design and sustainability. In the past 23 years he has also been teaching in the Architecture School at Yale, where he is a Visiting Professor, leading seminar classes and Advanced Design Studios, influencing and inspiring a new generation of young Architects. He recently received the 2023 Falzul Khan Lifetime Achievement Award from the CTBUH in Singapore. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-bellew-3b38b8b/

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In this episode I catch up with my oldest and best friend Lawrence Hooker, we talk about his life, work, his passion for the Masonic Society, Arsenal Football Club and mysteries like Gobekli Tepe in Turkey and other ancient site....its a bit of a ramble but a good one with plenty of humour...

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In this episode, I catch up with Josh Blackmore a young engineer that interned with me over the summer of 2017/18. We find out what he's been doing  since then, how he got involved with the Student Volunteer Army, including becoming the President of this amazing group of young people for a time. It was great catching up with him and I hope you enjoy the conversation! 
He works for WSP, here's a link to the website:
https://www.wsp.com/en-nz
His Linkedin Profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-blackmore/
If you want to find out more about the SVA check out their website here:
https://sva.org.nz/

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