Building Our Future

How can IoT integrations help manage infection control in the built environment?Tim is CTO of Microshare, creating smart facilities solutions for the built environment. He is in charge of the strategic product vision and his past 12mths have unsurprisingly been focussed on harnessing the power of technology to help buildings be more resilient in the face of the pandemic.In this podcast:How has Covid-19 shaped the direction of smart facilities management?How has Covid-19 affected take of of sm...

How do we design buildings and places with wellness in mind? Do we need to reconsider residential design to reflect changing life priorities?Andrew Mcmullan is a British architect whose fresh and optimistic approach to design has helped create renowned global projects that make a deep impact on places and people. In 2018, he founded Mcmullan Studio to evolve his positive vision of architecture. Based in London, Andrew leads his team to create beautiful, buildable projects for progressive clie...

Martha Weidmann is CEO and Co-Founder of Nine Dot Arts in Denver, Colorado. Nine Dot Arts is a consulting firm that not only curates inspirational art experiences, but also serves as an advocate for both art and artists.In this podcast:What’s driving the renaissance of the use of art in the built environment?What are the benefits of art for spaces, places and buildings?What mediums of art are being used?How are arts projects generally funded?How important is ROI of art and how can it be track...

nnovation; everyone wants it but how can we help create it through urban and building design?Katie Kasabilis is an urbanist, architect and educator whose career has straddled the worlds of practice and academia. She is currently an assistant professor in architecture at the University of Virginia, a Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Cities and the Design Director of Kasawoo. Her work is at the forefront of a new direction for urban research – one that investigates the role of technological i...

What are “smart” buildings & how will they change the way we design, build and use our built environment?Pradyumna Pandit is the Vice President UK & Ireland of Digital Energy, a at Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management and automation. He previously worked at Honeywell for 18 years where he held roles in Asia, the Americas and EMEA. In this podcast:What’s driving the growing interest in smart(er) buildings?What’s Schneider Electric’s role been to date...

Nicholas Boys-Smith left a job in banking to set up Create Streets, a research institute that supports "community-led regeneration" and prioritises high-density, low-rise buildings over tower blocks. He is a Commissioner of Historic England, a senior research fellow at the University of Buckingham, a Fellow at the Legatum Institute and an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism. In this podcast:Why are beautiful buildings important?How do we measure beauty in the built environment?What ar...

How can we navigate technology’s impact on the world’s largest asset class?Dror Poleg is the author of Rethinking Real Estate and the Co-Chair of the Urban Land Institute’s Technology and Innovation Council in New York. He is a former real estate and technology executive who now dedicates most of his time to researching the impact of technology on urban life and the way physical assets are designed, used, and valued. Dror advises executives across the real estate universe on emerging bus...

Can real estate development deliver social justice?Andrea Pizziconi is a singer, songwriter and social entrepreneur. She is the founder of the Christie Company (a pioneer in affordable, mixed-use developments) and of Africa Integras (financier of education infrastructure in Africa) as well as the co-founder of Compositions for a Cause, which creates cause-related music to inspire activism for social justice.In this podcast:Educational infrastructure & real estate as a catalyst for regener...

Breaking down the barriers: the built environment in a post-digital world where sectors, silos and boundaries are increasingly blurred.Vanessa Hale is Director of Research at BNP Paribas Real Estate and brand-new, and youngest ever, chair of ULI UK.Vanessa has 20 years of experience in global strategic research across all real estate sectors in the UK and the US.In this podcast:The breakdown of traditional real estate “sectors” and boundariesThe role of technology in changing how we use build...

Can P2P lending boost housing delivery numbers by financially enabling SME house-builders? What does the P2P market need to learn from recent history to ensure a fair & transparent market of risk / reward for investors? Is technology the right answer?Mike Bristow is CEO & Co-founder of CrowdProperty; a specialist property peer-to-peer lending platform facilitating loans between private individuals and UK professional property businesses. Lending is focused on the SME property develope...