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The Future We Build is a podcast about sustainability in real estate when it is shaped by innovation, investment, and real commercial decision making.
Hosted by Alex Edds, a corporate sustainability innovator with over 20 years inside the industry, this podcast looks at sustainability through the lens of value creation, resilience, and human outcomes, not just carbon metrics.
This is a show for people building, backing, and buying the next generation of solutions for the built environment, offering rare insight into how sustainability, innovation, and capital intersect in practice.
Hosted by Alex Edds, a corporate sustainability innovator with over 20 years inside the industry, this podcast looks at sustainability through the lens of value creation, resilience, and human outcomes, not just carbon metrics.
This is a show for people building, backing, and buying the next generation of solutions for the built environment, offering rare insight into how sustainability, innovation, and capital intersect in practice.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
weekly
Average audio length:
46 minutes
Guest interviews
Video podcast
English
United States
22 episodes
since Feb. 16, 2026
episodic
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Andrew Waugh co-founded Waugh Thistleton Architects nearly 30 years ago, straight out of college, and has spent his career pushing bio-based materials and low-carbon construction into an industry still dominated by concrete and steel. He's Alex's first architect guest on the show — a deliberate cho…
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Stars aren't quality. That's the quiet admission at the heart of this episode.
Chris Pyke is Chief Innovation Officer at GRESB — the benchmark that shapes how institutional capital flows across real estate globally. He helped build the five-star system. And he'll tell you it was designed to rank fu…
This episode is sponsored by MapMortar - the capital planning management tool that turns portfolio risk from a spreadsheet headache into a boardroom-ready capital plan in around 50% of the time and cost. Check out https://mapmortar.io
Basil Demeroutis founded FORE Partnership in 2012 with one c…
This episode is sponsored by MapMortar - the capital planning management tool that turns portfolio risk from a spreadsheet headache into a boardroom-ready capital plan in around 50% of the time and cost. Check out https://mapmortar.io
Ranjeet Bhalerao left his consultancy job after a £100k study …
This episode is sponsored by MapMortar - the capital planning management tool that turns portfolio risk from a spreadsheet headache into a boardroom-ready capital plan in around 50% of the time and cost. Check out https://mapmortar.io
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The built environment doesn't have an innovation problem. It h…
If AI has only made us 20% faster in five years, James Garner calls that abject failure.
Everyone in the built environment is talking about AI. Very little of that conversation is about what people are actually doing with it today.
James Garner has spent 20 years as a quantity surveyor and now lead…
Bellway builds around 8,500 homes a year — and a large share of its carbon footprint comes not from construction, but from the homes people live in after they buy them. Jamie Bursnell, Group Head of Technical and Innovation at Bellway Homes, has spent years working out how you actually decarbonise …
CRREM tells real estate investors whether their assets are Paris-aligned or heading for stranding risk.
Andrea Palmer is one year into the role as CRREM's first CEO — appointed after leading ESG integration for PGGM's global listed real estate portfolio, where she was pricing climate risk into valu…
Anna Denell is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Vasakronan, a Swedish office real estate company managing 2.4 million square metres across Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Sweden’s other major cities. Owned by three state-controlled pension funds, Vasakronan has been embedding sustainability into its …
Sam Carson leads sustainability within CBRE’s Valuations practice — a role that sits entirely separate from the firm’s sustainability function, by design. After fifteen years in consultancy, Sam joined CBRE to solve the question the sector had been dancing around for years: what does sustainability…
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