S1.18: Peter and Kirsty on Innovating the Property Development Industry through Timber Design and Construction
Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities
Release Date: 01/29/2021
Season 2!
Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities
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S1.21: Improving housing quality and creating smarter housing solutions with Matthew Gardiner
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This week, we have a changemaker who's looking at how homes and technology meet and how new technology can be introduced into the property sector in general.
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S1.20: Fanyu Lin on developing an A.I.-driven technology platform to help create healthy affordable homes
Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities
Fanyu Lin is an award-winning entrepreneur and architect, passionate about impact investing. She is the CEO of Fluxus, a construction technology company and social enterprise committed to improving quality of life through delivering affordable, sustainable and smart homes.
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S1.19: Tom Chance on Helping Meet Local Needs by Developing Homes Through Community Land Trusts
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Really pleased to have Tom Chance as a guest on the podcast! He is the Chief Executive at the National CLT Network, a national charity supporting community-led housing.
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S1.18: Peter and Kirsty on Innovating the Property Development Industry through Timber Design and Construction
Live, Work and Play: Creating Communities
Recent guests of the Innovators in Affordable Housing Podcast are Peter Wilson and Kirsty Watt from Timber Design Initiatives!
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S1.17: Building impactful communities with Alan Marcus
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Alan Marcus is the Chief Digital Strategy Officer at Planet Smart City, an innovative proptech company designing and building affordable smart projects with social and digital innovations to improve lives.
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S1.16: Co-living, Urban Regeneration and Building Communities with Matt Lesniak
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Matt Lesniak is the Head of Impact & Innovation at Conscious Coliving, an impact-driven spatial and experience design consultancy for coliving developers, operators and investors. He is also the Head of Community of Co-Liv, a co-founder of Coliving Insights and has worked for The Collective on their Impact and Community Experience Teams.
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S1.15: Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) on Affordable Housing Developments with Richard and Graham
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Our first-ever live episode is now in our podcast library! This is an episode we did a couple of weeks back with Richard Lankshear who is the Head of Innovation and Graham Sibley, Senior Business Development Manager of NHBC.
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S1.14: Rob Stephenson on quality living with mental awareness and social housing
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Rob Stephenson, the founder of FormScore and InsideOut aims to help facilitate this change and work to help break the stigma around the discussion of mental health amongst social communities.
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S1.13: Andy Redfearn and Rebecca Stockman on affordable shared living scheme
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Andy Redfearn and Rebecca Stockman are the directors of LivShare Housing and Consultancy. LivShare provides consultancy services to organisations that want to develop low-rent housing that makes use of sharing economies in a variety of ways.
info_outlineRecent guests of the Innovators in Affordable Housing Podcast are Peter and Kirsty from Timber Design Initiatives, a company who's raison d’être is to deliver Europe-wide approaches to education, innovation and demonstration of best practice in the use of wood in architecture, design and construction through applied research collaborations with academia and industry.
Peter is an architect and director of Timber Design Initiatives (TDI) Ltd. and the author of 'New Timber Architecture in Scotland’ and ‘The Modern Timber House in the UK: New Paradigms and Technologies'. He leads the company's Mass Timber Academy and its Build Back Rural initiative to help remote rural communities build their own affordable homes using locally manufactured dowel laminated timber panels.
Kirsty is a recent graduate from Dundee's Architecture and Urban Planning Masters unit, focusing on the contemporary perception of community in collaboration with Perth & Kinross Council. She is now part of the team at Timber Design Initiatives Ltd, actively working on a project to help solve the rural housing crisis in Scotland.
In this episode Peter, Kirsty and myself talked about how timber design and construction contribute to the technological innovation within the property development industry. We have discussed the general misconceptions of using timber as well as its advantages and most especially its positive effects on the affordable housing sector.