Building Tomorrow: Conversations with Climate Solvers
The biggest ideas in sustainable building, simplified.
Welcome to Building Tomorrow, a new podcast from Urban Green Council, where we’ll introduce you to the people who are advancing the reality of healthy, resilient, and equitable low-carbon solutions to help solve climate change.
This podcast will demystify complex ideas about buildings and energy systems. We’re talking to everyone, from developers to architects and engineers to plumbers and electricians, general contractors, people working on the electrical grid—you name it! We want you to hear amazing stories from the people who are making big differences in the built environment just by changing how they work.
Building systems are designed and installed separately, but they need to work together for a building to function as intended. Kelly Westby and Ellen Honigstock discuss how it happens.
In this episode of Building Tomorrow, Dr. Erica Avrami, Nate Rogers and Kate Reggev discuss how new legislation could necessitate energy retrofits in historic buildings.
In this episode of Building Tomorrow, hear from Trevor Smith, a construction manager with extensive experience in completing design-build energy projects in occupied buildings.
What are the hidden costs and contradictions of NYC's sustainability agenda? Dr. Melissa Checker joins Amy Marpman and Ellen Honigstock to unpack the "sustainability myth."
Ellen Honigstock and Prateek Srivastava sit down with Stantec’s Robby Vogel to get a structural engineer’s take on strategies to reduce embodied carbon.
Sonal Jessel, Director of Policy at WE ACT, joins Zakiyah Sayyed and Anushka Maqbool to discuss how electrification must benefit historically disadvantaged communities.
This 2018 conversation between the late Michael Deane and Ellen Honigstock touches on eliminating construction waste and innovations at the intersection of sustainability and construction.
