Season 2 Trailer - The Future We Build

The Future We Build is back! After a first season spent mapping the landscape — exploring where capital is flowing, how sustainability frameworks are being applied, and what it means to lead change from inside real estate — host Alex Edds returns with a sharper question for Season 2: what does it actually take to execute?Season one made one thing clear: the ambitions are there, the tools are increasingly available, but a stubborn gap remains between intention and delivery. Season 2 closes in on that gap. Alex speaks to the people working at the sharp end — measuring performance, valuing sustainability, assessing climate risk on the P&L, and navigating the friction that comes with trying to change a fragmented industry from within. The conversations span investors, developers, cost consultants, sustainability leaders, property managers, and innovators in construction and housebuilding.What makes the show worth your time is what it doesn't do. There are no polished conference presentations here. These are honest conversations — about what is working, what isn't, and why the distance between strategy and execution is still the defining challenge facing sustainability in the built environment.[00:00:00] Alex welcomes listeners back and reflects on what the response to Season 1 revealed about appetite for honest conversations in real estate and sustainability[00:01:00] A recap of Season 1's arc: from capital flows and sustainability frameworks to the leaders navigating them — and the innovators and VCs trying to bring new solutions to market[00:02:00] The insight that shaped Season 2: ambitions and tools exist, but the gap between strategy and execution remains the central problem — so this season speaks to the people whose job it is to close it[00:03:00] Why Season 2 deliberately assembles a wide range of seats at the table — investors, developers, cost consultants, sustainability leaders, property managers — because this is a systems problem that no single perspective can solve[00:04:00] A call to action: subscribe, rate, review, sign up to the newsletter — and an invitation to connect on LinkedIn and shape future episodesWhat you'll learnWhy the gap between sustainability strategy and on-the-ground execution is still the defining challenge in real estateHow investors, developers, consultants and property managers are approaching the shift from ambition to actionWhat it takes to measure sustainability performance in a way that actually demonstrates progressHow organisations are starting to put a financial figure on climate risk — and where it shows up on the P&LWhy innovation is so difficult in a fragmented industry with competing stakeholders and misaligned incentivesHow housebuilding and construction are grappling with technology, efficiency and the constraints of volume productionWhere artificial intelligence could have the most material impact across the built environmentWhy honest conversations about what isn't working are often more valuable than polished success storiesHow collaboration across different parts of the industry is essential to solving complex sustainability challengesWhat the people delivering change every day believe will shape the future of real estate and sustainabilityThe Future We Build is a podcast exploring sustainability, innovation and systemic change in the built environment, hosted by Alex Edds.New episodes released weekly. This show is edited by the wonderful team at Atalor.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-future-we-buildApple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-future-we-build/id1877617346Email: [email protected]: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexedds