Design Hive

Principal and buildings engineer Jan Wei talks about the evolution of New York City's building performance standards and meeting the new demands of Local Law 97.

Carbon and Climate Discipline Leader Beth Tomlinson talks about the outlook for buildings decarbonization and what ASHRAE standards mean for climate change. 

In episode eleven of the Design Hive podcast Robyn Whitwham talks about collaborating with young adults on the new Stella’s Place. 

In episode ten of the Design Hive podcast, Stantec's Seattle office lead Daryl Fonslow shares some strategies his team used on the award-winning low carbon District Carbon concept and how they can be applied on existing buildings to get to net zero.

In episode nine of the Design Hive podcast: Global Lead for Smart Cities Dr. Rick Huijbregts talks about why design thinking is key to unlocking a digital transformation to solve the challenges of urban living. He talks about what smart cities should and shouldn’t be and why design firms like Stantec are well positioned to shape the “intelligent communities” of the future. 

Smart cities

In episode nine of the Design Hive podcast: Global Lead for Smart Cities Dr. Rick Huijbregts talks about why design thinking is key to using digital transformation to solve the challenges of urban living. He talks about what smart cities should and shouldn’t be and why design firms like Stantec are well positioned to shape the “intelligent communities” of the future. 

On episode eight of the Design Hive podcast: Acoustic Section Manager Daniel Castro talks about his journey from indie musician to acoustics expert and creating a new tool for explaining acoustics options to clients. Daniel chats with Dom and Diego about his recent Design Quarterly article on using gaming engines to power acoustic virtual reality and further applications of this powerful technology. 

In episode seven of Stantec's Design Hive podcast Global Health Sector Leader Brenda Bush-Moline chats with Dom and Diego about how understanding health equity as a goal changes the way we approach design. Brenda recently authored a blog on how health equity requires designers to think differently about design to improve health outcomes in our communities.
 

In episode six, we chat about what malls did wrong and how they can embrace experiences and “messy vitality” to connect with their communities and survive.  

In episode five, Stantec architecture discipline leader Rebel Roberts and paleontologist Dr. Paul Sereno chat with Dom and Diego about Niger Heritage, a collaborative design project for two new cultural and scientific heritage sites in the cities of Niamey and Agadez in Niger.