The Building Podcast

About The Building Podcast

Mark Wakeford is a Director of the National Federation of Builders, Strategy Director of the Global Solar Council and Chair of the West Midlands Solar Taskforce. He has run a large regional building contractor and now chairs Evoenergy, one of the UK's foremost renewable companies, bringing low carbon solutions to corporate Britain. Mark talks to leading experts from across the construction sector to discuss issues facing the built environment. He explores various challenges with his guests, who offer solutions, information and ideas that listeners can apply to their own situations, be it in a company, on a project or studying at college. The Building Podcast aims to provide 'CPD on the go'. Supporting the sector with easily digestible ideas to support a rapidly changing industry! https://www.linked.com/in/markwakeford/ (https://www.linked.com/in/markwakeford/)

Publisher

Mark Wakeford

Category

business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Aug 2024

Latest episode

19 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 145 episodes have a transcript.

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   19 Oct 2026

   Businesses as Advocates and Leaders in Society

   Send a Text - Feedback Welcome With political leaders around the world moving and changing at ever increasing speeds, businesses find themselves as one of the few constants in their communities. This gives them opportunity to act in concert for changes that they believe will benefit their communities and meet their long-term business goals. Listen to Ben Tolhurst, a Director of Business Declares talk about the responsibility placed on businesses to act dutifully and to use the strengths...

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   16 Oct 2026

   Carbon Capture in our Soils – The sustainable and best way to make farmland more resilient and productive

   Send a Text - Feedback Welcome Farmland with high levels of organic carbon will be more resilient to periods of high or low rainfall and to greater swings in temperature. Achieving this requires both the knowledge of what level of organic carbon exists in the soil and best practice farming methods. Working in this way can help secure the food supplies that we need during times of climate stress, ensure an income to farmers and replace much of the carbon capture figures that Gover...

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   22 Sept 2026

   Residential Electricity Supply – Matching variable supply with demand

   Send a Text - Feedback Welcome One of the biggest challenges of renewable energy generation is that it is intermittent, even when averaged out over a country. This makes matching demand with supply, or vice-a-versa difficult. Add to this the challenges of a warming climate that increase variability in wind and sun levels, then there is an opportunity for clever businesses to find a solution. Nigel Banks is the Technical Director for Octopus Energy, the UK’s largest residential ene...

Inside a recent episode

Low Carbon Economies and Land Use – Energy, Health and Survival all have the same answer

Published 18 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And, you know, yeah, exactly. So we overproduce. a lot of products which are bad for us, actually, if we eat too much of it. We overproduce the products that are really bad for the environment and we underproduce the nutrients that we need day to day for things like fruits. We only produce about 16% of our fruits. And so we've got this really this agricultural system, this food system, that's really out of balance, basically. And this is a real land issue, because if your country is dominated by this type of land use, really the whole landscape is dominated by it, and you just don't have land for other things. […]

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• Dave Tattershall
• Kamal Rajput
• Ross Grier
• Ben Fawcett
• Simon Richards

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YouTube views

61,286

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5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100

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94

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

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