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Vintage Sustainability

By: Gordon Hudson & John Holmes
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  • John and Gordon look back on past sustainable buildings and see how they have lasted and evolved. Looking for lessons. We have an instagram account with some pictures of there buildings we discuss https://www.instagram.com/vintage_sustainability_/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D

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  • Tree sitting, Cradlewell Bypass and a brush with the law

    Tree sitting, Cradlewell Bypass and a brush with the law
    Jun 23 2024
    In this episode we talk to June, a teenage anti road demonstrator in the 1990s who also happens to be John's niece. The £12m Cradlewell bypass routed traffic through a tunnel to bypass a narrow pinch point at the end of the Coast Road into Newcastle. The protest invented the idea of tree sitting and delayed the project for a few months. June's arrest and it's subsequent impacts on her career are explored. John wonders whether June has changed her views, well have a listen!

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    30 mins
  • Nick Huston talks domestic heat pumps

    Nick Huston talks domestic heat pumps
    Jun 14 2024
    John and Gordon talk to Nick Huston of Daikin (Future Energy Business Manager). Nick tells us about some of the early domestic heat pumps projects he was involved in and we discuss how the future might play out over the next few years. Economics of current heat pumps are explored and contrasted to historical cases (1950s). Nick also lets us know about the "Tesla charge point races" playing out on our roads

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    29 mins
  • Professor Ruth Dalton measuring joy and the Revai G-Whiz

    Professor Ruth Dalton measuring joy and the Revai G-Whiz
    Feb 6 2024
    We discuss sustainable design and architecture with Professor Ruth Dalton. Covering her early experience of the importance of sustainability in the 1980s architecture school, her favourite local building and some aspects of design that could be added to sustainable assessment of buildings. Ruth also tells us of her experience with that 1990s London favourite the Revai G Whiz. It works in London but not so much in Milton Keynes. Oh, I should say it contains some mild swearing.

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    31 mins
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