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AJ Climate Champions podcast: Danish architect Lone Feifer on ‘absolute’ sustainability
Velux director of sustainable buildings Lone Feifer explains why ‘relative’ sustainability, improvement on previous standards, is no longer good enough
Podcasts
The AJ’s podcasts, including AJ Climate Champions hosted by Hattie Hartman. Find AJ Climate Champions on your favourite podcast app: subscribe via Spotify, Apple podcasts, YouTube, Deezer and Podbean
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Hawkins\Brown’s Louisa Bowles on what net zero actually means
HawkinsBrown partner Louisa Bowles describes the challenge of reaching industry consensus on the definition of whole life carbon
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Editional Studio on persuading domestic clients to build less and retrofit more
The Manchester-based Jo Sharples and Jack Richards share top tips from 'Decarbonise Your House Now!', a timely domestic retrofit guide for clients and architects
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Bob Prewett explains why Passivhaus is often too much for heritage buildings
Passivhaus pioneer Bob Prewett shares insights from Prewett Bizley Architects’ long track record of low energy retrofit, and explains why Passivhaus is often too much for heritage buildings
AJ Climate Champions podcast: ACAN founding member Sara Edmonds on ramping up domestic retrofit
Architect and ACAN campaigner Sara Edmonds on forging collaborative networks for household retrofit
AJ Climate Champions podcast: John Christophers’ zero carbon home generates 40% energy surplus
Architect John Christophers explains how the zero carbon retrofit of his Birmingham terraced home has sparked community activism and a pilot project with Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics Action Lab
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Lessons from AHMM’s Stirling Prize-winning Burntwood School building performance study
AHMM associate and building performance expert Craig Robertson shares surprising findings from a post-occupancy study of the Stirling Prize-winning Burntwood School with crucial insights on closing the performance gap
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Judit Kimpian on why building performance studies are crucial for net zero
Architect and environmental design expert Judit Kimpian discusses energy security, spiralling energy costs and her book, Energy|People|Buildings – win one of three copies in our giveaway
AJ Climate Champions podcast: AKT II’s Hanif Kara on CLT virtue signalling and concrete innovations
Structural engineer Hanif Kara, co-founder of AKT II, shares insights from his new book on CLT yet argues that concrete is here to stay
AJ Climate Champions podcast: Marina Tabassum on why climate crisis isn’t a geographic problem
Bangladeshi architect and 2021 Soane Medal winner Marina Tabassum describes her approach as distilling the essence of vernacular buildings into contemporary architecture