The built environment and a suitable future with Maria Smith

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🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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In this episode Helen talks with Maria Smith architect, engineer and director of sustainability and physics at Buro Happold. They discuss the built environment and suitable options for the future, The carbon emissions of creating and installing building materials and how we can reduce them, the technology that can be used in the building industry to reduce carbon output and much more.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the fully charged show podcast. I'm Helen Cherisky.
0:23.6	When we talk about using less energy and less carbon, which we're doing a lot these days
0:28.0	which is a good thing, we're often thinking about the things that we do every day as human,
0:32.8	you know, how do we move ourselves around? What do we eat? What do we package the things we buy?
0:37.3	What do we buy? All of that stuff. But what about the energy and the carbon, the use of energy
0:43.7	and carbon that's designed into the infrastructure that's all around us? So it's not energy efficiency
0:49.6	or anything like that. It's actually the buildings and the infrastructure themselves.
0:55.1	In this podcast, I'm talking to Maria Smith, who's the Director of Sustainability and Physics at
1:00.2	Bureau Happold. Maria started out as an architect, did an engineering degree, and now works in
1:05.5	creating a more sustainable future, especially when it comes to those things like buildings
1:10.0	that can be big problems hidden in plain sight. I've never really thought about whether you could
1:15.2	make a modern building without concrete, but apparently it is possible and it might be a very
1:20.2	good thing. And actually, maybe we could recycle buildings, which is quite a thought.
1:27.1	But yeah, why not if you can? So maybe we don't have to build buildings the way that it's always
1:32.5	been done, and this is an important part of the climate conversation. And so it's quite exciting
1:36.4	to think about all the possibilities that that opens up all the different ways you could do it.
1:40.8	So here is the conversation with Maria.
1:54.4	My energy is putting the eye back into British innovation. My energy is putting the eye
2:00.7	back into inventing the future. My energy is putting the eye back into inspiring a nation.
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2:24.0	greener future. Maria, thank you very much for joining us. Now, you are an expert in the area that
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