The SCOPE

Competence is a key word in the positioning and requirements of the Building Safety Act.

How is the industry proving competence? If you're responsible for selecting suppliers or products, how are you assured of their competence?

With recognised expertise in the realm of the Act, joining this Stantec SCOPE podcast are Professor Jose Torero from UCL - an expert witness for the Grenfell Inquiry, Bea Young, director at WW+P architects, and James McNay, fire safety director with Stantec. 

The Building Safety Act brings ethics, responsibility, and competence to the fore. It demands a change in culture from the construction industry.

So, how does this industry embrace culture change? What can we learn from other sectors that have undergone behavioural and cultural change? And crucially, where are we now - is a nervous industry a competent industry?

Tackling this brief in Stantec's SCOPE podcast, are James McNay, fire safety director with Stantec, and Jessica Neuberger, partner at international law firm, Eversheds Sutherland, in conversation with Graham Munday from Stantec.

The SCOPE is a podcast exploring climate change as a force on, and result of, the built environment.  Our guests are Monika Büscher, professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, and associate director in the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University, Greg Marsden, professor of Transport Governance, Institute for Transport Studies, Keith Mitchell, director of Transport and Place, Stantec and Richard Wenham, chair, England’s Economic Heartland.

Following the launch of Bridging the Gap, an extensive report examining the most viable routes towards transport decarbonisation, the group discuss key takeaways for local authorities and the systemic, societal shifts needed in the years ahead.

The SCOPE is a podcast exploring climate change as a force on, and result of, the built environment. Our second guests are Josh Grantham, an Infrastructure Campaigner at CamCycle, and Wesley Wroe, Sustainable Infrastructure Engineer at Stantec. Together, we discuss the huge percentage of public land that is the responsibility of engineers - and how expensive we've made it to maintain, wicked problems, pseudo public spaces, batcaps, and the powerful influence of a tandem bike.

The SCOPE is a podcast exploring climate change as a force on, and result of, the built environment. Our first guests are Nels Nelson, a Senior Urban Planner at Stantec’s Urban Places, and Memo  Cedeño from Harvard’s School of Public Health. We discuss the urban heat island effect, how to avoid spending public money where its least needed but most noisily called for, proving common sense, quantifying health outcomes, and acting like your house is on fire.