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The Future We Build is a podcast about sustainability in real estate when it is shaped by innovation, investment, and real commercial decision making.Hosted by Alex Edds, a corporate sustainability innovator with over 20 years inside the industry, this podcast looks at…
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The One With... The Architect That Says the UK Has Lost Its Edge (opens the original)
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Andrew Waugh co-founded Waugh Thistleton Architects nearly 30 years ago, straight out of college, and has spent his career pushing bio-based materials and low-carbon construction into an industry still dominated by concrete and steel. He's Alex's first architect guest on the show — a deliberate choice, given how much of the conversation about sustainable real estate happens downstream of decisions made right at the start of a project. The two get into what actually happens when an architect's or
The One With… the Man Who Wants the Best Investors to Hold the Worst Assets — Chris Pyke, GRESB (opens the original)
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Stars aren't quality. That's the quiet admission at the heart of this episode. Chris Pyke is Chief Innovation Officer at GRESB — the benchmark that shapes how institutional capital flows across real estate globally. He helped build the five-star system. And he'll tell you it was designed to rank funds, not signal quality. Investors have been reading it wrong for a decade. GRESB is now redesigning it from the ground up. Alex pushes on the reporting burden, the bunching at the top of the scoring d
The One With… the Aerospace Engineer who spotted Real Estate's broken system — and built a firm to fix it (opens the original)
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This episode is sponsored by MapMortar - the capital planning management tool that turns portfolio risk from a spreadsheet headache into a boardroom-ready capital plan in around 50% of the time and cost. Check out https://mapmortar.io Basil Demeroutis founded FORE Partnership in 2012 with one conviction: sustainability and financial performance aren't in tension — the industry just built a system that treats them as if they are. Trained as an aerospace engineer at Cornell and shaped by years
The One With... the Engineer Turned AI Innovator and the 300-Year-Old Estate — Ranjeet Bhalerao & Simon Tranter (opens the original)
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This episode is sponsored by MapMortar - the capital planning management tool that turns portfolio risk from a spreadsheet headache into a boardroom-ready capital plan in around 50% of the time and cost. Check out https://mapmortar.io Ranjeet Bhalerao left his consultancy job after a £100k study could model just 5 of 300 buildings. He founded MapMortar.io to fix that. Simon Tranter has to decarbonise nearly 900 mostly-listed buildings across Marylebone by 2040 — and he's the one actually using
The One With... the Team Who Mapped Every Barrier to Scaling Sustainability in Real Estate — UKGBC (opens the original)
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This episode is sponsored by MapMortar - the capital planning management tool that turns portfolio risk from a spreadsheet headache into a boardroom-ready capital plan in around 50% of the time and cost. Check out https://mapmortar.io — The built environment doesn't have an innovation problem. It has a scaling problem. Emily-Rose Garnett and Philippa Birch-Wood of the UK Green Building Council authored the report mapping why sustainable solutions in real estate keep dying in pilot. Alex — who on
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