Best Dan Falk Podcasts (2024)

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The energy performance of buildings matters, to me and EU and everyone you know, with Ciarán Cuffe (MEP) 51:04

4d ago51:04

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The Recast Energy Performance of Buildings Directive is now enshrined in EU law, which has big implications for the built environment everywhere. Even the South East of England. To mark the occasion and get the lowdown on what this all means, we invited friend of the show Ciarán Cuffe back on to talk about it. For those who might not remember, he's…

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A new way to measure performance, negative energy use, and learning from disaster zones, with Kate Crawford (KLH Sustainability) 1:17:08

11d ago1:17:08

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Kate Crawford is a building nerd who is obsessed with measuring performance. She's currently, Technical Director at KLH Sustainability, a multidisciplinary consultancy working in the built environment. Kate has a very interesting background in terms of her experience and she's now working on a very fascinating project in which she's researching and…

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#278 - With Sy Barry & His Worldwide Influence 1:28:01

12d ago1:28:01

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Presenting a recorded interview with Sy Barry that was originally recorded 18 months ago. Why have we held onto this for so long you may be asking? Great question! Jermayn Parker, and Ankit Mitra originally held this interview for the discussion to be included in the Regal Phantom comics. It can now be released in podcast format in its entirely. An…

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Designing for deconstruction using natural building materials. With Chloe Donovan (Natural Building Systems) 1:12:39

18d ago1:12:39

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This week we're talking about modular construction and Natural Building Systems with MD Chloe Donovan. Chloe is a really interesting character with a fascinating product that she's bringing to market. Unusually, she's a farmer who got into building and then found herself as an entrepreneur in the febrile world of modular building and MMC. We talk a…

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#277 - March 2024 Comics & News Review 1:35:21

24d ago1:35:21

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Jermayn Parker and Stephen East sit down and discuss the latest Phantom comics and news from March 2024. In this podcast we review comics from Australia and India plus dissect Phantom related news from Europe, India, Australia, South America and USA. Now is the time to subscribe to our YouTube Channel, website and or our social media platforms in F…

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Monitoring will make your buildings be worth more money, Utopi has proved it, with Falk Bleyl (CTO at Utopi) 1:20:21

25d ago1:20:21

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Up next we're speaking with Falk Bleyl, CTO at Utopi, about their sensor-based data platform technology. He describes it as an ESG platform which is true but it massively underplays the true value of what their product offers. Heads up, normally, we'll at least try to couch the conversation within a broader context but in this episode, we've barely…

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“Use less stuff”: embodied carbon, value chains and the potential for change in the Declaration de Chaillot. With Lloyd Alter (Carbon Upfront), Kelly Alvarez Doran (Ha/f Climate Design), and Will Arnold ... 1:16:05

1M ago1:16:05

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Lloyd has been in Paris. He came back very enthused and excited by his experience there and wanted to communicate why to our listeners. “In the face of the climate emergency, a swift transition of the buildings sector is a direct requirement to achieve the goals set by the Paris Agreement”. Approximately, 1,400 people from 70 countries gathered in …

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What do we do about ‘the office’? A retrofit challenge we don't speak about enough. With Harry Browne and Séamus Guidera (RKD) 1:20:03

1M ago1:20:03

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This week we got into an area of retrofit that feels neglected: commercial space. It's a subject we definitely touch upon but never really get into , so in order to remedy that we're getting stuck in. First up is a conversation with architects Harry Browne and Séamus Guidera of RKD Dublin who came recommended to us by friend of the show Richard O'H…

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#276 - February & March 2024 Comics & News Review 1:49:26

1M ago1:49:26

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We discuss the latest Phantom comics and news from February and March 2024. This includes everything Phantom related from around the world including products, comics, publishers, creator changes and much more. Now is the time to subscribe to our YouTube Channel, website and or our social media platforms in Facebook, Twitter and or Instagram. Frew P…

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Fundamental problems in building design and how we manage thermal comfort, with Susan Roaf (Heriot-Watt; ICARB) 1:33:08

2M ago1:33:08

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We are delighted to bring you a conversation with Professor Emeritus Susan Roaf, of Heriot-Watt University this week to talk about a bunch of fundamental problems in building design and the management of thermal comfort. She is a wonderful guest and we're looking forward to having her back. Originally, we planned to talk about her article COP 28: N…

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#275 - The Phantom and AI 1:22:52

2M ago1:22:52

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Jermayn Parker, and Dan Fraser tackle a hot button topic on AI alongside guest Grange Wallis who helps us understand the potential dangers, where we can be excited and the potential future of it in the world but also our Phantom comic. Is there room for it? Now is the time to subscribe to our YouTube Channel, website and or our social media platfor…

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Fabric fifth: rethinking the hierarchy of retrofit, with Nigel Banks (Octopus Energy) 1:10:20

2M ago1:10:20

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This week we're joined by Nigel Banks, Technical Director - Zero Bills & Low Carbon Homes at Octopus Energy. Nigel joined us to discuss his recent article: Fabric Fifth, a slightly polemical riposte to fabric-first dogma, and an interesting philosophy for retrofit. As it turned out, it’s an apposite follow-up to last week's episode with Fionn Steve…

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Retrofit: "We need to tackle low hanging fruit first", so what does that mean? With Fionn Stevenson 1:28:14

2M ago1:28:14

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We were blessed to enjoy a great conversation about retrofit and what we should consider our priorities, with the vastly experienced retrofit firebrand Fionn Stevenson. It was a challenging, surprising, and free-wheeling conversation spurred by a call to action she made on LinkedIn some time ago, in which she decried fabric-first approaches and dec…

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#274 - Andreas Eriksson The Writer 1:53:24

2M ago1:53:24

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Jermayn Parker goes one on one with Andreas Eriksson who wears multiple hats when it comes to the Phantom. He writes stories, he is a phan, he edits comics for Fantomen and even helps edit Phantom Wiki. We have chatted with him about his journey as a phan and editor before and now we focus on the stories he has written for Frew, Fantomen and Lightn…

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Natural materials, healthier homes, and the culture of sustainable building, with Will Kirkman (Ecomerchant) 1:16:15

2M ago1:16:15

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We enjoyed the company of Ecomerchant’s Will Kirkman a business that's specialised in sustainable and natural building materials for the building trade and consumers. We mainly rambled our way around the culture of building in the UK, how embodied carbon has always been on the Ecomerchant agenda and the impact that sustainable and natural building …

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Engineering low-impact buildings and advice from self build, with Tara Fraser (Build Collective) 1:00:16

2M ago1:00:16

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This week is all about the challenges of low-impact building in the sphere of self build with Tara Fraser, a chartered civil and structural engineer, and a director of Build Collective in Bristol. On the recommendation of former guest (and Tara's colleague) Beth Williams, we recently had a chat with her about a self-build project she worked on that…

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#273 - Frew 2024 Annual Review 1:28:08

3M ago1:28:08

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Jermayn Parker, Stephen East and Dan Fraser sit down and discuss the 2024 Frew Annual which consists of 8 stories, featuring 6 Sunday newspapers, 1 from Team Fantomen, 1 story from Moonstone featuring 5 chapters and of course the replica of Frew issue #34. Now is the time to subscribe to our YouTube Channel, website and or our social media platform…

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Shady business #2: shading for housing in a changing climate, with Tom Dollard (Pollard Thomas Edwards) 1:28:59

3M ago1:28:59

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Part two of our series on shading, this time with a return appearance from Tom Dollard of Pollard Thomas Edwards who joined us in January 2023 to talk about lazy thinking. Ostensibly, this time we met to talk about the Good Homes Alliance design guide for shading, as a follow-up to December's episode with Zoe De Grussa. On reflection we realised th…

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A view from COP28, and relearning how to be an architect for after the Oil Age, with Kelly Alvarez Doran (Half Climate Design; Architecture 2030 Senior Fellow) 1:21:36

3M ago1:21:36

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With us this week is new friend, Kelly Alvarez Doran, via an introduction from Lloyd to talk about his experiences at COP28 and his carbon reduction consultancy Ha/f Climate Design that's challenged itself to reduce Canadian construction's emissions by half. We get sidetracked almost immediately while we talk about Kelly's background as an architec…

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#272 - December 2023 & January 2024 Comics & News Review 2:07:59

3M ago2:07:59

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Jermayn Parker, Stephen East and Dan Fraser sit down and discuss the latest Phantom comics and news from not one but two mammoth months. This includes everything Phantom related from around the world including products, comics, creator changes and much more. Normally we try and review everything once a month but December 2023 was busy. So please si…

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Conservation-led retrofit and energy efficiency for working buildings, with with Heidi Hopper-Duffy and David Hughes (Iarnród Éireann) 57:32

3M ago57:32

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This one is about conservation-led retrofit and the retrofit of commercial (or institutional) building stock. We were invited to see a recent Iarnród Éireann (Irish Railway) retrofit project and meet with Heidi Hopper-Duffy (Environmental & Sustainability Manager) and its architect David Hughes (Senior Conservation Architect & Energy Specialist). O…

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The cost of sustainability, accounting for language, and the taxonomy, with Archie O'Donnell (KOSMOS) 57:42

3M ago57:42

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The first of our Dublin field recordings is with Archie O'Donnell a long-time face green building in Ireland, a fella who Jeff has a lot of time for, and someone Alex and I hadn't met yet. It was a good call. Originally trained as an architect, Archie has worked his way through the industry, recently joining Danish/Irish consultancy KOSMOS, so ther…

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#271 - Our Review & Best Of 2023 1:53:03

3M ago1:53:03

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We try and review 2023 in two hours. We go over the tale of the tape, highlighting every comic and merchandise released around the world in 2023 and then go over our favs. We have regular contributors joining us in Ankit, Christian , Seuj, Mikael, Duncan and Christopher and giving their input as well. We also go over the Frew best cover, best issue…

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PH+ Revisited: that archive building in Hereford, the one that uses passive house preservation, with Nick Grant and Alan Clarke 56:05

4M ago56:05

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This week we have Lloyd's latest Passive House Plus Revisited, a conversation with passive house heads Alan Clarke and Nick Grant about the passive house archive project that left Lloyd so smitten when he visited it last summer. That we’re discussing archive systems shouldn’t put folk off - the point is about thinking differently, about what the ch…

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#270 - Update on the New Moonstone Series with Mike Bullock 57:57

4M ago57:57

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To celebrate the new Moonstone comic book series featuring both the Phantom and Mandrake we catch up with Mike Bullock the writer from the old and new series. What is confirmed and discussed by Mike Bullock is the following: The initial comic series will be like the past KGB Noir series with The Phantom and another character There will be three sto…

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How to normalise low-energy heating without radiators: an overnight success story that's fifteen years in the making, with Ethan Wadsworth (ThermaSkirt) 1:09:19

4M ago1:09:19

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Happy new year! This week's episode brings you a conversation with Ethan Wadsworth of DiscreteHeat the manufacturers of our new favourite energy efficient (non-radiator and non underfloor) based heating system ThermaSkirt. We're not there to bang on about a product we like, what we found interesting about this one is that it’s an overnight, award-w…

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#269 - New Years Resolution - Read Some Back Issues 29:33

4M ago29:33

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To celebrate the new year, we have resolutions on what to do differently. Instead of trying to lose weight or eat healthy, this is a resolution all can get behind. Join us with our resolution to read more back issue Phantom comics! This year the team reviews some Moonstone comics which are worth digging out. This year Dan Fraser, Duncan Munro, and …

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PH+ revisited: Seeing the wood for the trees (part two), with Andy Simmonds (AECB) and Lenny Antonelli (PH+) 58:54

4M ago58:54

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Happy post-Christmas day, hope you made it through OK. Today we have part two of the latest Passive House Plus revisited, looking at Lloyd Alter's favourite article of 2021: Seeing the wood for the trees - Placing ecology at the heart of construction. Again, we're joined by authors Lenny Antonelli and Andy Simmonds talking about mass timber, embodi…

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PH+ revisited: Seeing the wood for the trees (part one), with Andy Simmonds (AECB) and Lenny Antonelli (PH+) 1:05:27

4M ago1:05:27

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Merry Christmas! This week we have a Passive House Plus revisited two-parter for you, led by our occasional co-host Lloyd Alter, looking at his favourite article of 2021: Seeing the wood for the trees - Placing ecology at the heart of construction. We're joined by authors Lenny Antonelli and Andy Simmonds and the conversation wheels around, coverin…

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BookLab 034: Determined by Robert Sapolsky and Free Agents by Kevin Mitchell 1:15:24

4M ago1:15:24

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It’s one of the oldest and most vexing questions in science and philosophy: Do we have free will? In this episode of BookLab, we take a close look at two books by two scientists who have considered the question at length -- and have been led to two very different conclusions.

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Shady business #1 – overheating, and Camden: we should think about solar gain all year round, with Zoe De Grussa (BBSA) 1:16:41

4M ago1:16:41

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It's all about shading, overheating, and solar gain with Zoe De Grussa this week. She's the author of that infamous Camden overheating case study that Jeff always references and, at the time of writing, is technical and sustainability consultant at the British Blind and Shutter Association (BBSA). We cover Camden, but perhaps more interesting is th…

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#268 - The Phantom Video Game Update 1:23:10

4M ago1:23:10

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During the podcast we discuss and dissect the new Phantom video game trailer plus much more. We ask about NYCC 2023, his dealings with King Features plus rattle of some key future dates including the announcement of Ashley Nicholls and Matt Kyme attending Supanova events in 2024 in Melbourne and Sydney. If this video game excites you, this podcast …

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POE and its value to retrofit, and what does a Head of Sustainability do? With Loreana Padron (ECD Architects) 1:17:56

5M ago1:17:56

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We are joined by Loreana Padron to talk about what it is that a Head of Sustainability does and, more broadly, the value of post-occupancy evaluation (POE) to all the stakeholders in a retrofit project. Loreana tells us about the path she's taken to becoming Head of Sustainability at Architecture firm ECD, a leading sustainability-focused practice,…

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#267 - 2023 Bundaberg QLD "Phantom: Off The Drawing Board" Art Gallery 57:01

5M ago57:01

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A huge thank you to all who contributed to this podcast in Rebecca McDuff and Duncan Munro for their time recording and reviewing the exhibition. To Bradley and Joyful Peach, Terry Krahe, Chris Hill, Amanda Bacchi and Paul Mason for their videoing and photos we used throughout the podcast. Because of what they did, it has allowed those who did not …

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Standards and specifications, and why they don't always work like we want them to, with Sarah Price, the author of PAS2035/2030 (Retrofitting dwellings for improved energy efficiency) 1:18:50

5M ago1:18:50

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Today we're talking about standards. In short, it's about how standards are written and why retrofit shouldn’t just be about products or carbon. It's never short with us though, is it? We're sure that all of our listeners will have complained about PAS2035/2030 at some point, admiring its ambition while lamenting its restrictions. We've all certain…

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#266 - November 2023 Comics & New Review 2:24:32

5M ago2:24:32

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Jermayn, Stephen and Dan sit down and discuss the comics news from November 2023 from around the world including products, exhibitions and more. We are joined by Mikael Lyck, Seuj Abir and Christian Moeller who all review the latest comics from Sweden, India and Germany. All together we review 15 comics and 25 Phantom stories. No wonder it takes us…

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Roadmaps for fuel poverty and retrofit: we know what needs to be done so why can’t we do it? With Tania Jennings (Chair of the Association of Local Energy Officers, London) 1:21:03

5M ago1:21:03

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We invited Tania Jennings back. Most folk in the retrofit or social housing space will probably be aware of Tania from LinkedIn and the myriad jobs she has. If you don’t know her yet, check her LinkedIn. Anyway, she wrote a thing for Architect’s Journal about fuel poverty, Covid, and inevitably retrofit and it was excellent. It sparked a conversati…

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