Zero Ambitions Podcast
Zero Ambitions is a consultancy and weekly podcast about sustainability and the built environment.
We find interesting and experienced guests who know what they're talking about, usually to discuss how we navigate the complexity of decarbonisation and sustainability in the built environment and its many related sectors.
The success of the podcast has seen it grow into a consultancy, Zero Ambitions Partners. The consultancy works with blue chip clients, public sector institutions, and niche-market innovators that operate in the built environment, advising about the development and delivery of sustainability strategy and how it should be communicated.
Hosted by Jeff Colley (Passive House Plus), Dan Hyde (Everything is User Experience) and Alex Blondin (Everything is User Experience).
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 63 minutes
- Episodes
- 188
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings Patrick Harvie - "No Pathway to tackling Climate Change without More Ambition"
"There is no path to meeting our climate targets that doesn't involve much more ambition [on buildings]. By the end of this decade, we need to see a million homes converted to zero-emission heating s…
Demand reduction, heat networks and healing our homes
There's no question that we must decarbonise our housing stock. But we believe there must be a comprehensive approach to demanding the reduction in the first place, and not just a focus on low carbon…
What makes for a successful retrofit? Evaluating what really matters with Lisa Pasquale
Lisa is one of the most experienced building performance consultants working in the UK. She has extensive knowledge of in-use building operation and management, building physics, low-energy services,…
Campaigning for Retrofit with ACAN and the NEF
Putting our time and energy where our mouths are! Want to know more about taking action on making the changes we need to see around decarbonising our homes? Tune in and hear more about an exciting co…
Putting People Front and Centre with Jon Daley of Magenta Living Housing Association
Reference is made some reports and articles in this episode, which we share here.
Each Home Counts Review: https://www.eachhomecounts.com/
Housing Quality Network article: "Four key ingredients for su…
EnerPHit at Scale with James Traynor of ECD Architects
An interview with James Traynor of ECD Architects about retrofit, EnerPHit, Portsmouth's Wilmcote House project (the largest scale retrofit of its type, in its day), and James's fabulous book about E…
Financing Retrofit with Rufus Grantham of Bankers without Boundaries (BwB)
Putting Retrofit Publications into Action with Barbara Lantschner
This week we spoke to Barbara Lantschner of John Gilbert Architects. JGA have been dealing with retrofit for many years and specifically with developing monitoring processes that allow them to get to…
Embodied Carbon and the COP26 House
Fuel Poverty and a Just Transition with Alex Warren of The Wise Group
Smart Homes and the Internet of Things with Dane Ralston of IoPT
Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN) with Sara Edmonds
Conversation with Sara, Dan, Jeff and Alex on the work that ACAN are doing and how we can look to a grassroots movement in promoting the retrofitting of our homes in a sustainable way to tackle clima…
The Value of Communicating Well, with Dan and Alex from Everything is User Experience
Discussion with Jeff, Alex and Dan from User Experience is Everything on CoP26 and how communication is critical to how we progress sustainability and radical change in the built environment.https://…
West Dunbartonshire District Heating and the Queens Quay Project with Morten Duedahl
The episode features lessons learnt from district heating and the work that West Dunbartonshire have been doing on developing heat networks.
Climate Change and Democracy with Kevin Albertson
Professor of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University Kevin Albertson makes the point that we can't put off the change that is required now for future generations and that we need to change ou…
Low Carbon Heat Networks and Clean Air with Dave Pearson
Dave Pearson from Star Renewables talks about district heating during CoP26
Financing Retrofit at Scale, Green Neighbourhoods as a Service - Rufus Grantham at Bankers Without Boundaries
Bankers Without Boundaries (‘BwB’), an innovator in finance, is a not-for-profit powered by former investment bankers to assist high impact projects that benefit the environment and social good. BwB …
Climate Change and the Decade of Disruption with Kevin Albertson Professor of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University
Professor of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University Kevin Albertson makes the point that we can't put off the change that is required now for future generations and that we need to change ou…
Build Once for the Future - President of the RIAS Christina Gaiger
Christina Gaiger is the current President of The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) and is committed to the creative reuse of buildings, alongside the construction of a supportive n…
Redefining Productivity with Kevin Albertson Professor of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University
This week Professor of Economics at Manchester Metropolitan University is giving us a concept or idea on economics the environment and climate change each day.