ZERO Construct
The ZERO Construct podcast brings insights and expertise from professionals worldwide on modernizing and future-proofing the construction industry through digitization, productivity, innovation, and sustainability. It explores innovations, case studies, and real-world experiences from those building the world around us.
Episodes
From Traditional to Modern, a GC's shift to Offsite Construction
See all our content and events: Check out our LinkTreeHost Johnathan Munkley & Matthew Jackson with guest: Paul Drayton from Laing O'RoukeLaing O'Rouke is one of the world's leading construction companies, who like everyone else is looking to increase productivity and quality of their projects to thei
Green Buildings & Real Impact: Circularity & Bio-Based Materials in Practice
See all our content and events: Check out our LinkTreeHost Matthew Jackson with guests: Thomas Kveiborg, Oliver Hansen & Nikolaj Callisen FriisLIVE from Copenhagen in association with BLOXHUB and the AEC Hackathon.Bio-based materials are moving from niche innovation to mainstream application. Timber, hemp, straw, mycelium
Is education the answer to construction's climate change challenges
See all our content and events: Check out our LinkTreeHost Johnathan Munkley. Guests Chris Bradshaw and Francisca M Gardiazabal Echeverria.LCAW (London Climate Action Week) is a community driven week of events in and around London all on how to tackle climate. ZERO Construct partnered with Bentley Systems (leading construction so
The Danish Way: Is Denmark Leading The Way In Sustainable Construction?
See all our content and events: Check out our LinkTreePanel Torben Klitgaard , Ole Berard & Matthew Jackson.Another year another hackathon where I get the chance to take part in an amazing weekend. This year I catch up with Torben and Ole to test my theory that Denmark is leading the way in decarbonising construc
The Three Little Pigs of Offsite Construction and Natural Materials
See all our content and events: Check out our LinkTreePanel Chloe Donovan from Natural Building Materials, Johnathan Munkley & Matthew Jackson.There are huge challenges with offsite construction and also mixing that with the use of natural buildings materials it only gets more complex. Chloe knows this all too well as she nav
Did you miss it? What happened at COP29
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Panel Henry Fenby-Taylor, Sonya Dancheva, Giulia Papi, & Matthew Jackson.
Blink and you'd miss it. COP29 came a after a busy news cycle. But what happened? What was the response to the result? And importantly how does COP29 change construction? As we found out we'll hav
Where does the money go? Construction's Innovation Funding
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Panel Henry Fenby-Taylor, Sonya Dancheva, Giulia Papi, Matthew Jackson and Johnathan Munkley
Construction faces not just the challenge of sustainability and counting carbon but also how we fund new ideas. Construction innovation funding is something that exists but
What happens to sustainable construction under Trump?
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Panel Henry Fenby-Taylor, Sonya Dancheva, Matthew Jackson and Johnathan Munkley
Our reaction and response to the election results over in the USA. Importantly after our personal reflection - how does this effect construction? What happens to the low carbon and sustainability moveme
Do we have a standards problem?
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Panel Lydia McGuinness, Poppy Harrison, Matthew Jackson and Johnathan Munkley
We led an exciting panel discussion on why we’ve had some standards for so long but yet as an industry can argue have made small gains. These global organisations have created standards such as IFC and LEED but have
Walk and Talk through Digital Construction Week
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Digital Construction Week is one of those conferences that the whos who of industry attends. We catch up with the conference, each other and what the big talking points are.
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This is the ZERO Carbon Construction podcast, the podcast dedicated to bringing you insights and expertise from professionals around the
Greenwashing a Sustainability Innovation Event
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Episode guest: Marc Munier from DitchCarbon
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John caught up with Marc who had just returned disappointed at what was supposed to be a leading innovation event where he accused it of being greenwashed. He posted a picture of his b
ZERO Diaries - The chaos of hosting a 24hr global event
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Another episode of the ZERO Diaries where we reflect on the amazing ZERO Con Virtual event. A 24hr live stream in our own virtual space where we created an auditorium, a networking space, exhibition and a digital John and Sonya!
We look at the pros and cons of the
The Future Leaders of Construction: Where are they & how can we help them?
Episode guests: Alison Watson from Class Of Your Own
Episode sponsor: ZEROcon Virtual
How do we get more future leaders into all areas on construction and how do we bring the right skills into the industry?
Lets be honest - right now construction isn't attracting the talent needed but what if we get young people interested earlier?
Alison CEO of Class of
Implementing Business Ideas for ZERO Carbon Outcomes
Episode guests: Michael Schwartz from RIB Software, Ole Berard from Molio, Teemu Lehtinen from KIRAHub
Episode sponsor: AEC Hackathon and BLOXHUB
The AEC Hackathons are an amazing event over different weekends in different countries. Over the first weekend of March we took an opportunity to get stuck in and record a panel debate and more content.
Last minute we decid
ZERO Diaries - The Foundations of ZERO
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Bringing you a change to our regular programming: we are going to bring some more internal thoughts from ZERO. The ZERO Diaries will be conversations with ZERO's thought leaders on the why, what and how of ZERO with some subject debates along the way.
In this first episode the co-founders of ZER
Finance isn't boring, is it the catalyst we need for change?
Episode guests: Gavin J Gallagher
Episode sponsor: Behind the Facade Podcast (Spotify, Apple, YouTube)
Happy New Year!
The start 2024 we explore the world of how the finance around commercial real estate works and has a direct effect on the carbon emissions of the construction industry.
Explore this episode where we understand Gavin's story as he navigates the amazing h
COP 28 - looking beyond the headlines for the built environment
Episode guests: Lydia McGuinness from Wates Construction and Olayemi Usman from Soben.
Episode sponsor: Rapid by Sterling RCS and XYZ Reality
Another COP has come and gone, this one (version 28) threw up its fair share on controversies. BUT, we wanted to look beyond the headlines to see what the wins were.
We had a closer look into how the
How do we pay for this? / Paying to Decarbonise Construction (Live from Dublin)
Episode guests: Eamonn Sheils from Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), Chris Jackson from esri, Archie O'Donnell and Ross Griffin from KOSMOS.
Episode sponsor: BIMCoordinators Summit by BIM Hero and ArcDox
ZERO hosted the ZERO Carbon stage at BIM Coordinators Summit in Dublin, September 2023. We hosted two great panel sessions and this is th
The Challenges of Counting Carbon in Construction (Live from Dublin)
Episode guests: Eamonn Sheils from Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI), Chris Jackson from esri, Archie O'Donnell from KOSMOS.
Episode sponsor: BIMCoordinators Summit by BIM Hero and ArcDox
ZERO hosted the ZERO Carbon stage at BIM Coordinators Summit in Dublin, September 2023. We hosted two great panel sessions and this is the first of two.
Counting carbon like we d
The Importance on Ongoing Education and Conferences (LIVE from DCW)
Episode guest: Harlene Gill from Buro Happold, Matthew Osment from Sterling, Johnathan Munkley (Co-Founder of ZERO) and Henry Fenby Taylor.
Episode sponsor: XYZ Reality (on LinkedIn)
This final episode (4 of 4) from Digital Construction Week (DCW) is split into two parts. First we join Harlene and Matthew to talk about the importance of carbon literacy and engagement in a co
Creating Digital Carbon Twins (LIVE from DCW)
Episode guest: Sarah Saxton from Preoptima
Episode sponsor: Sterling RCS (on LinkedIn)
In this penultimate episode (3 of 4) from Digital Construction Week (DCW); John and I catch up with Sarah from Preoptima to geek out on not just digital twins but carbon twins. The discussion about how we record the data behind the understanding of the carbon impacts project have throughout their lifec
Cracking the Embodied Carbon Code & the Hidden Impact of Construction
Episode guest: Stacy Smedley from Building Transparency
Episode sponsor: Sterling RCS (on LinkedIn)
Today we welcome the guru, the jedi master of embodied carbon; Stacy Smedley from Building Transparency. We'll discuss the 101 of what embodied carbon is, how it needs to be measured across a global industry and the challenges that produces.
In the bonus episode we talk about Girl Scout
Cracking the Embodied Carbon Code & the Hidden Impact of Construction (Bonus Edition)
Today we welcome the guru, the jedi master of embodied carbon; Stacy Smedley from Building Transparency. We'll discuss the 101 of what embodied carbon is, how it needs to be measured across a global industry and the challenges that produces.
We also discuss Girl Scouts of America talk carbon, buying cheap secondhand designer fashion and much more!
Welcome to the ZERO Carbon Construction (Bonus
F**k Roadmaps with the industry Future Leaders (LIVE from DCW)
This is part 2 of 4 episodes recorded LIVE at Digital Construction Week. In this episode Henry is joined by Owen and Tasha our future leaders from the ZERO Next organisation where we give a little insight into what the new generations of people expect from the industry.
At a conference there is a lot of background noise so we have tried to reduce it as best we can without making the podcasters s
ZERO has big news and why does construction re-invent the wheel? (LIVE from DCW)
This is part 1 of 4 episodes recorded LIVE at Digital Construction Week. In this episode John and myself are joined by Henry where we give a little insight into some big news we announced at the conference. In the second part John and Henry are joined by Rachel from GS1 where they discuss the existing data standards out there and why construction is trying to re-invent the wheel. At a conference t
Construction is Addicted to Carbon
I am joined by fellow ZERO Co-Founder Johnathan Munkley where we will discuss how bad construction performs on the global scale of the climate crisis and why we think ZERO can be part of the solution.
Welcome to the ZERO Carbon Construction podcast, the podcast dedicated to bringing you insights and expertise from professionals around the world on how we can reduce carbon in the built environment.
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