The Urbanista

Welcome back to Season 3 of The Urbanista, the podcast for urban designers and city planners, where we discuss city water management and sustainable urban development. In this season’s first episode, we talk with Dan Angelescu, CEO of Fluidion, a company specializing in water quality solutions, especially technological and data management solutions to ensure rapid and accurate monitoring of drinking, surface, waste and storm waters.

In this fascinating conversation, Dan tells the Urbanista about how Fluidion monitors water, about their work with the Paris Olympics and the Seine River, and how the EU needs to improve its water monitoring standards. 

Connect with Dan Angelescu https://www.linkedin.com/in/dangelescu/

Learn more about Fluidion https://fluidion.com/

Take a look at 2024 Olympics – Seine water quality https://fluidion.com/open-data-initiative/2024-seine-water-quality

Thank you Urbanistas for listening!

The Urbanista is a production of Uponor Infra Oy, produced and edited in sunny Helsinki by Sara Söderström

Hi! Welcome to The Urbanista Season 2, the podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss city water management and sustainable urban development.

We are wrapping up Season 2 with a new episode that summarizes all the important and hot topics we discussed during this season. The main topics of discussion were the challenges in building stormwater systems today, the new corporate sustainability reporting directive, increasing water tariffs, and numerous others. If you missed Season 2, this is a perfect opportunity to briefly catch up on all the topics! Let us know what your favorite episode was.

Uponor Official Website:
 https://www.uponor.com/en-en/solutions/uponor-infra-solutions

Follow Uponor on LinkedIn:
 https://www.linkedin.com/company/uponor

Water Leaders Pod:
https://open.spotify.com/show/0spf5VMLaRjajBF8eC7mUr?si=ddbf3cc2f1f9433c&nd=1&dlsi=c4bab5f25e944a46

Thank you, Urbanistas, for listening!

The Urbanista is a production of Uponor Infra Oy. This episode was produced by Mariia Andriushenkova and edited in sunny Helsinki by Sara Söderström.

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. Season 2

The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Ebba Waernbaum - Strategist within VA SYD municipality with a focus on stormwater. During this insightful episodes we discussed several topics: 

- Challenges with hidden infrastructure that needs to be renewed

- Process or thinking behind when planning a new solution for stormwater 

- How are we doing to meet 2027 water directive goals?

ISWIM -  Innovative stormwater impact mitigation - https://www.swedenwaterresearch.se/en/projekt/iswim-innovative-stormwater-impact-mitigation-2/

Connect with Ebba on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebbawaernbaum/

Thank you Urbanistas for listening! 

The Urbanista is a production of Uponor Infra Oy, produced and edited in sunny Helsinki by Mariia Andriushenkova. 

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. Season 2

The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Martin Lundholm - Project Engineer at Skanska. Martin has worked for the Skellefteå kommun. The city of Skellefteå in northern Sweden has stated openly that they want to become the most sustainable city in Europe, a tall order that our guest have contributed to.

In this episode we discussed an important topic: How to actually implement (build) a project with a strong sustainability focus.

• How a sustainability project is actually executed?
• What Skellefteå did differently in this project?
• How did they follow up to ensure the sustainability focus stayed top of mind?

Connect with Martin on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-lundholm-80971b150/ 

Thank you Urbanistas for listening! 

The Urbanista is a production of Uponor Infra Oy, produced and edited in sunny Helsinki by Mariia Andriushenkova. 

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. Season 2

The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Ella Tanskanen - Head of Sustainability Services at Greenstep. We discussed several topics related to CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) - a strategic tool for sustainability analysis. 

• Key aspects of new EU's Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.
• Primary challenges companies might face in implementing the CSRD.
• How should companies approach the management and verification of sustainability data to comply with the CSRD.
• Opportunities and Financial Impact Evaluation 

Greenstep - services for financial management, human resources, business development and guidance - https://greenstep.com/ 

Connect with Ella on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ella-tanskanen-221415a4/?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

Thank you Urbanistas for listening! 

The Urbanista is a production of Uponor Infra Oy, produced and edited in sunny Helsinki by Mariia Andriushenkova. 

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. Season 2

The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Michael Hanf - Lead, Sustainable Business at VTT and host of The Circular Coffee Break podcast, where he talks about all the things related to circular economy and beyond. 

In this episode with Michael we have covered several important topics: 

• The correct definition of the Circular Economy 
• Challenges in Circular Economy
• Consumer Engagement in Circular Economy
• Circular Economy in Urban Planning 
• The power of our society 
• Circular design principles 

The Circular Coffee Break Podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/5Q7CY3dTcW0TfXpMCehyvd
Connect with Michael on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhanf/

Thank you Urbanistas for listening! 

The Urbanista is a production of Uponor Infra Oy, produced and edited in sunny Helsinki by Mariia Andriushenkova. 

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. Season 2

The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development.

GWI NEWS - is a new format that we have on The Urbanista podcast in collaboration with Global Water Intelligence. GWI is the leading publisher and events organizer serving the international water industry.
More news and events related to the water industry you can find on their webpage:
https://www.globalwaterintel.com/
 
Tallulah Lutkin - is a Utility Performance Editor at GWI. Tallulah will share with us the most important and interesting news about water, tariffs for water, events for water utilities and many more.
Subscribe to the Urbanista and stay tuned for more!

News we discussed:

1) Water at COP28 in Dubai: at first glance, COP28 was disappointing for water
2) In the US, California has adopted new regulations to pave the way for direct potable reuse

3) The consequences of Europe’s new Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
- A new era for corporate water reporting
- When will companies face CSRD standards?

More information about these news on: https://www.globalwaterintel.com/

Connect with Tallulah Lutkin on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tallulah-lutkin-5b110a10a/

Thank you Urbanistas for listening! 

The Urbanista is a production of Uponor Infra Oy, produced and edited in sunny Helsinki by Mariia Andriushenkova. 

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. Season 2

The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Mustafa Sherif - Urban Planner & Studio Manager at AFRY,  Placemaker EU Leader and Host of Urbanistica Podcast "Cities for people". During this episode we discussed several key topics about urban development and liveable cities:

• What does a liveable city mean in a Nordic context?  
• Key urban problems in the Nordics.
• Key insights from 400 episodes on the Urbanistica Podcast.
• Accessible cities and placemaking.
• 15 min cities – why are they so controversial now? 
• Utopian cities will never exist.

Urbanistica Podcast - Cities for People - https://www.linkedin.com/company/city-life-urbanistica-podcast/
Connect with Mustafa on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mustafa-sherif/ 

Thank you Urbanistas for listening! 

The Urbanista is a production of Uponor Infra Oy, produced and edited in sunny Helsinki by Mariia Andriushenkova. 

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. Season 2

The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development. In this episode we talk with Panu Pasanen - Sustainability expert and CEO at One Click LCA.  We discussed several topics related to Environmental Product Declaration and LCA (Life Cycle Assessment):

• Criteria for EPD
• EPD standards have changed 
• Comparison of EPDs 
• LCAs and EPDs 

One Click LCA - World-leading platform for life-cycle assessment, environmental product declaration, and sustainability. https://www.oneclicklca.com/

Panu Pasanen - Sustainability expert, CEO at One Click LCA  -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/panupasanen/

Thank you Urbanistas for listening! 

The Urbanista is a production of Uponor Infra Oy, produced and edited in sunny Helsinki by Mariia Andriushenkova. 

Hei! Welcome to The Urbanista. Season 2

The podcast for urban designers and city planners where we discuss about city water management and sustainable urban development.

GWI NEWS - is a new format that we have on The Urbanista podcast in collaboration with Global Water Intelligence. GWI is the leading publisher and events organizer serving the international water industry.
More news and events related to the water industry you can find on their webpage:
https://www.globalwaterintel.com/
 
Tallulah Lutkin - is a Utility Performance Editor at GWI. Tallulah will share with us the most important and interesting news about water, tariffs for water, events for water utilities and many more. 
Subscribe to the Urbanista and stay tuned for more! 

News we discussed: 

1)  European regulation updates: amendments to Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive
2) Two new utilities inaugurated into Leading Utilities of the World at Amsterdam International Water Week
3) Emerging ideas at Amsterdam International Water Week : 
- Greenhouses powered by wastewater treatment plants
- France leading the way on bathable rivers and reuse 
- Falling water demand
4) Tariff Survey 2023

In September GWI published its annual Tariff Survey: tariffs saw a sharp 8.2% average increase across the world.

More information about these news on: https://www.globalwaterintel.com/

Connect with Tallulah Lutkin on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tallulah-lutkin-5b110a10a/

Thank you Urbanistas for listening! 

The Urbanista is a production of Uponor Infra Oy, produced and edited in sunny Helsinki by Mariia Andriushenkova.