Professional Practice Podcasts

Craig Allison is Chair of the National Association of Planning Enforcement, and a Senior Planning Enforcement Officer at Hambleton District Council.

In this programme, we’ll discuss what happens when you carry out work without necessary planning permission, or in contravention to a granted planning permission and its conditions.

Hosted by Austin Williams

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Paul Bussey, senior technical consultant at AHMM, an expert on Health and Safety and author of "CDM 2015: A Practical Guide for Architects and Designers”. In this programme, Paul talks about the issues essential for the changing role and duties of the Principal Designer.

Hosted by Austin Williams

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Lisa Raynes is the founder and CEO of Pride Road Architects, an architectural franchise business model. She is the past-Chairperson of the RIBA’s North-West Sole Practitioners Group and this podcast explores the core requirements for a business start-up, but also Lisa’s unique take on franchising architecture.

Hosted by Austin Williams

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Peter Ullathorne of Ullathorne Consultancy originally contributed to the first edition of the AJ Office Handbook and is now - amongst other things - an RIBA Accredited Client Advisor. This podcast explores how to better inform and direct clients on their roles and responsibilities.

Hosted by Austin Williams

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Tom Cronin is the practice manager of ADP architects - an AJ100 practice with multiple studios across the UK, in the EU and India.

This podcast deals with the initial stages of setting up a practice – from insurance, contracts, cash flow and liabilities, but also addresses employment law from the position of employee… as well as from the employer’s perspective.

Hosted by Austin Williams

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Murray Armes on Dispute Resolution

Murray Armes is an established Chartered Architect, Arbitrator and

Expert Witness, and the founder and Managing Director of Sense

Studio Limited. Specialising in dispute avoidance and resolution he

is on the arbitration, adjudication and mediation panels of CIArb,

RIBA, RICS and CEDR, among others.

This programme explores how to get out of trouble, hopefully, using

a variety of appropriate dispute strategies; from mediation to adjudication.

Hosted by Austin Williams

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Hannah Boyd is a Chartered Surveyor and Associate director of Anstey Horne. In this podcast she talks about The Party Wall etc. Act 1996 and explains some of the complexities of various scenarios. She also provides useful inside knowledge of where Building Owners and construction professionals often go wrong.

Hosted by Austin Williams

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As energy crises hit the headlines, environmental issues are a hot topic at the moment. Especially for consumers.

The government is pushing for the removal of domestic gas boilers and their replacement with air- and ground-source heat pumps; pumps that need well-insulated homes to be effective. Meanwhile, campaign group, Insulate Britain are forcefully demonstrating that properties in the UK are not well-insulated. What’s the cost, what’s the problem we are trying to address, and what are the consequences.

At present, you cannot sell your house without a Home Energy Performance Certificate and soon these will be linked to your ability to get a mortgage. From 2026 private landlords will need to cut emissions in their properties, gas prices are set to rise 30% next year; and the cost of net zero is predicted to be more than £1trillion.

With 4 million low-income households behind on their rent, household bills or personal debt payments (up threefold since Covid) is the public convinced by such a costly energy-saving environmental agenda? Has the hypocrisy of billionaires flying to COP made us realise that Green solutions are just “blah, blah, blah”, or are people justifiably annoyed at having to spend £000s ripping out perfectly good boilers? Are there new and efficient technologies around the corner or should we be minimising the use of technologies in favour of passive solutions?

Is all this necessary? Is it a crisis – a time to panic - or should we look for cool heads in the global warming debate? After all, the green-inspired ditching of nuclear power in Germany has not only vastly increased energy prices but resulted in increased emissions. In the UK, a lack of wind in September forced National Grid to fire up coal-fired power stations in the UK.

What are the real implications of these various policies on each and every one of us? We have asked four experts to consider the question in our Christmas debate:

SPEAKERS:

Rick Moore, owner, InControl, electronic engineer

Rico Wojtulewicz, senior policy advisor for the House Builders Association

Geoff Wilkinson, Award-winning Approved Inspector; columnist, Architects’ Journal

Caspar Hewett, founder member of the North East of England’s United Nations Regional Centre of Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development

Rico is head of housing & planning policy at the House Builders Association. In this podcast he talks about planning policy, litigation, training, and the process of tendering & building. As an insight into how things actually get built – or don’t get built – this is a useful podcast for architects.

Hosted by Austin Williams

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Edward Farrell, long-standing conservation architect and head of the Professional Practice programme at Lincoln University tackled some of the issues relating to the nature and value of conservation. Using examples of projects he has worked on, he explains the core concepts, like 'significance' and 'value', and provides some clues about dealing reasonably with local authorities.

Hosted by Austin Williams

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