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Think Future
by ARKANCE
Welcome to ARKANCE Think Future Podcast Series. Each week we’re speaking with innovative leaders across AEC and Manufacturing, and engaging with thought leaders for sustainable building, and manufacturing practices, to uncover game changers for the future Built Environment. We’re passionate about helping our listeners keep pace with digital change, across Construction and Manufacturing, so they can achieve their own technological, sustainability and leadership goals.
Episodes
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EP 86 Sustainable Design and the Future of Architecture
Molly Jones is a seasoned architect with over 30 years of experience and founder of Jones Design Studio. Based in Arkansas, Molly has dedicated her career to sustainable architecture and design-build methodologies, helping reshape the way projects are delivered and executed. She shares her…
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EP 85 Bold on Buildings in 2025 and Beyond
Dr. Carolina Montana-Owen, Technical Lead for Sustainable Buildings at the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC), joins the Think.Future podcast to discuss key highlights from COP 29, provide an update on the Buildings Breakthrough Initiative and progress in the circular economy of buildings....
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EP 84 Rethinking Building Design
Dr Matthias Irger, Head of Sustainability, COX Architecture, is an experienced architect, urban designer and academic specialising in regenerative design, holistic city planning and climate adaptation. Matthias graduated in Architecture at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences in Germany and...
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EP 83 3D Construction Printing
Philiip Lund-Nielsen Co-Founder and Head of Americas for COBOD is a global leader in construction 3D Printers. He joins the Think.Future podcast to tell us about how this technology is evolving by using innovation combined with open-source materials with the potential to address environmental,...
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EP 82 Implementing Solutions at Scale
Malin Lindblad is the Principal Sustainability Consultant at Anthesis in Sweden. With a passion for sustainability, Malin’s strength lies in supporting clients and stakeholders to ensure sustainability solutions align with and challenge their ultimate goals. Prior to working at Anthesis she held...
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EP 81 Creating Sentient AI for a Thriving Future
Dr. Anneloes Smitsman is the Founder and CEO of EARTHwise Centre and EARTHwise Ventures, where she leads initiatives for systemic transformation, sustainable development, and governance innovation. She is the lead author of the EARTHwise Constitution for a Planetary Civilization and the...
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EP 80 A Transport Revolution
Associate Professor Henrik Ny from Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) is an accomplished researcher and is committed to accelerating a transition to sustainable transport and energy systems. Henrik runs the SustainTrans research team at the Department of Strategic Sustainable Development at…
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EP 79 Sustainable Spatial Strategies
Tica Masuku is the Director of Workplace Strategy at Spaceful and is a highly experienced Human Geographer. Tica joins the Think.Future podcast to offer a fresh perspective on the world of work and the interrelationship between people and place. Join us to explore Tica's expert insight into how a...
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EP 78 A Holistic Perspective on Resilience
Ryan Colker, Executive Director of the Alliance for National & Community Resilience (ANCR) and Vice President for Innovation for the International Code Council (ICC) was our very first guest on the Think.Future podcast! Ryan has spent his career looking for opportunities to influence and improve...
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EP 77 The Potential of Regenerative Practice
Mary Casey is the Principal at Introba’s on the Australian Sustainability team, bringing over 25 years of international and Australian experience working with the environment. She practiced Architecture in the US for 8 years before becoming a sustainability consultant, then made a career…
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EP 76 Working with Water to Increase Resilience
Zoe Green, Associate Director and strategic advisor at WSP New Zealand, joins the Think.Future conversation to talk about the concept of 'Sponge Cities', a nature-based solution to mitigate water risk at scale. Zoe explains that water is like the lifeblood of a city and flows through the veins of...
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EP 75 West Railway-A Circular Economy Success Story
Anna Tuominen is a Project Engineer at Welado joins the conversation together with Alain Anthony Mardo, a Project Director at ORIS to tell us about Finland’s most progressive infrastructure project. The West Railway is approximately 100 km long and partly double track railway link between the...
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EP 74 A Circular Design Showcase
Professor Leonie Barner, serving as the Principal Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology, and Dr. Kavita Gonsalves, the Sustainability Design Lead at Populous, have come together on the Think.Future podcast to narrate their collaborative journey concerning Building 4.0 CRC and the...
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EP 73 Shifting the Paradigm
Nicolas Ramirez, Executive Director the Green Building Council in Costa Rica joins the Think.Future Podcast to talk about policy trends in the region, a new guide for developers and advocates for a paradigm shift in the Built Environment leading to better social, ecological, and financial…
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EP 72 Slow Water in an Urban Environment
Jose Alfredo Ramirez, co-director of Architectural Association's (AA) Ground Lab is passionate about the concept of slowing down water in an urban environment how that can be achieved through decentralisation, a mindset shift and design. Jose has led projects at the junction of architecture,...
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EP 71 Transforming the Built Environment
Pejman Sharafi, an Associate Professor in advanced building technologies at Western Sydney University, heads Modular Prefab Design Lab, where his team develop innovative solutions mainly in partnership with the industry, focusing on off-site manufacturing technologies, platform-based design,...
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EP 70 Material Matters and Measures
Jim Goddin of thinkstep ANZ is an expert in Materials, Minerals and Mining and as a member of the Critical Minerals Expert Committee, he has been actively involved in shaping the UK's Critical Minerals Strategy. Jim joins the Think.Future podcast to talk about the new International Standard for...
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EP 69 Circular Bioeconomy - Solutions, Potentials and Opportunities
Dr Florian Graichen is a General Manager at Scion, New Zealand’s leading research institute for forestry, industrial biotech, and advanced manufacturing and an Honorary Professor at the University of Waikato in the School of Engineering. Florian’s bioproducts and biomanufacturing impact area...
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EP 68 Safe, Sustainable and Fit for Purpose
Max Strandwitz, CEO of MIPS Protection shares the vision for sustainability and core values of his team, a leader in the field of brain protection systems within helmet-based safety manufacturing for over 25 years. The mission at MIPS is to reduce head injuries, save more lives, protecting people...
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EP 67 Building a Sustainable India
Sonali Rastogi, Founding Partner of Morphogenesis together with Founding Partner Manit have created one of the most successful architectural design companies in the world. She joins the Think.Future podcast to share her wisdom and vision for a sustainable India. Sonali has a unique perspective on...
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EP 66 Valuing Water and Closing the Loop
Dr. Dennis D. Truax joins the Think.Future podcast to share his experiences with over four decades working in water management and a long tenure teaching Water Treatment Systems Design at Mississippi State University. He contributes to the global conversation on water circularity from an...
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EP 65 Sustainability and Design Technology
Thesla Collier, Design Technology Manager at HNTB joins the Think.Future podcast and shares her expertise in using technology to design for sustainable outcomes in buildings. Thesla is known as a ‘Cheerleader for Sustainability’ and works in the intersection between Sustainability and Design...
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EP 64 A Circular Economy approach to the Business Case
Professor Aldo Ometto and Mr. Sergio Monforte join the Think.Future conversation to talk about a new International Standard for a circular economy driving innovative business opportunities as waste from one form of material is potentially a resource for another. In addition to the usual costs...
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EP63 A Circular Economy Approach for the Built Environment
Valentina Petrone is WSPs Circular Economy Lead in Australia. Valentina has unique skills combining 16 years’ experience as a trained Architect focused on implementing sustainable and climate resilience practices in the built environment with in-depth knowledge of Circular Economy design...
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EP62 San Francisco’s Journey to Zero Waste
James Slattery is a Construction and Demolition Debris Recovery Specialist at the San Francisco Department of the Environment. James joins the Think.Future podcast on 6 March to share his strategies on leading resource conservation, debris reduction, material recovery and taking environmental...
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EP61 Energy Self-Sufficient with Hydrogen
Two entrepreneurs, Markus Ostermeier of ostermeier H2ydrogen Solutions and his project partner, Joel Vogl of INFENER are thinking future and sharing the inspiring idea of being self-sufficient with decentralized Hydrogen solutions for the Built Environment. They both share an aspiration to become…
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EP60 Game change in the electrification of buildings
David Clark of Positive Zero is a chartered structural and building services engineer with over 30 years of design experience in Australia and the UK. Since 2001 he has specialised in providing sustainable design solutions and strategy in all building sectors and transport infrastructure. David...
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EP59 Designing for a Circular Economy
Jodie Bricout is the Circular Economy Leader at international design, engineering and advisory company, Aurecon. She is a globally recognised sustainability leader with two decades of experience working with industry, research and policymakers in several countries including Australia, New…
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EP58 Optimising for Sustainable Outcomes
Alexis Davison of Major Road Projects Victoria, joins the Think.Future conversation to tell us about the Victorian Government’s innovative ecologiQ program and Recycled First policy which are focussed on optimising the use of recycled and reused materials on Victorian infrastructure projects....
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EP57 Going Full Circle with Steel
Jerusha Beresford, Sustainability Lead at the Australian Steel Institute (ASI) manages the development and implementation of the Steel Sustainability Australia (SSA) certification program, a best practice sustainability assessment scheme for steel companies. Over the past 17 years, Jerusha has...
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EP56 Authentic Leadership in a Complex Built Environment
Paolo Bevilacqua of Frasers Property is an Executive that has delivered industry leading programs and solutions at both a project and organisational level across real estate and energy sectors in multiple geographies over a 20-year career. Paolo joins the ARKANCE Think.Future podcast to share his...
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EP55 New Zealand’s Green Building Council Rating Schemes
Sam Archer, the Director of Market Transformation at the of New Zealand Green Building Council joins the conversation with Think.Future to talk about the opportunities in bringing mainstream designers and builders up to speed and challenges them to lift their game. Sam is passionately dedicated…
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EP54 Cities as Nature
Adrian McGregor is the Chief Design Officer at McGregor Coxall and an award-winning expert in Biourbanism, a scalable resilience planning model helping cities become resilient to the impacts of a changing climate. Adrian created the world’s first biourbansim lab in 2006 and his book, Biourbanism:...
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EP53 The Future of Community Precincts
Dr. Kimberly Camrass is the Director for the Climate Futures department for the Queensland Government. Kimberly is a passionate sustainability professional, and joins Think.Future to share the highlights of her award-winning essay Regenerative Futures: 8 Principles for Thinking and Practice as...
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EP52 Villages for the Future
Dean D’Cruz, Partner and Principal Architect in MOZAIC conducts workshops and seminars globally focused on sustainable architecture practices. At the core, Dean believes architects can be the change agents for a better Built Environment and he joins the conversation to share how low-cost…
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EP51 A Vision for a Waste Free Australia
Brad Searle is the Head of Development at BINGO Industries. Brad joins the VinZero Think.Future podcast to share the innovative and impressive progress BINGO Industries is making in supporting the circularity and decarbonisation agenda for the Built Environment. BINGO Industries is focused on...
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EP50 Sustainable pathways to purpose and profit
Bob Willard, Founder and Chief Sustainability Champion of Sustainability Advantage, is a leading expert on quantifying the business value of sustainability strategies and a dedicated BCORP advocate, prioritizing both people and planet. In this interview, he delves into the crucial mindset…
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EP49 The Principles of Connected Design
Dr.Matthias Irger/Head of Sustainability/Cox Architecture; With a long-standing history serving sustainability outcomes Cox Architecture is seeking to maintain the livability of cities amidst rising temperatures and extreme weather. Join in the conversation as Dr Matthias Irger unpacks the…
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EP48 Nature’s Hidden Steel
Markus Roselieb/Architect and Principal, Chang Mai Life Architecture. Join in the conversation as award-winning architect and bamboo enthusiast, Markus Roselieb, delves into the incredible world of bamboo. As Principal at Chang Mai Life Architecture, a firm at the forefront of utilizing bamboo in...
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EP47 The Art of the Possible
Hollie Hynes, General Manager of Sustainability and Environment and Georgina North, Head of Technology and Innovation at Laing O’Rourke join Vinzero Think.Future to share their expertise and insights into the art of what’s possible in leading innovation and excellence in construction and...
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EP46 A Vision for Circularity
Catriona Brady is the Director of Strategy and Development at the World Green Building Council and manages global programmes for the World Green Building Council network, consisting of 77 national member councils who represent a combined network of 46,000 member organisations. Her areas of...
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EP45 A Sustainable Transition
Georgette Godbolt- Head of Global Sales, Sustainable Fund Australia: Sustainable Fund Australia is a profit for purpose company helping Australian business fund sustainability initiatives utilizing their council rates as a payment gateway. In just a few short years they have funded the removal of...
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EP 44 Designing for Net Zero
Ashish Rakheja - Managing Partner - AEON Consultants. The population across India is growing at a rapid pace, and with this comes an appreciation for the shortage of precious resources. Ashish Rakheja, Managing Partner for AEON Consultants joins the Think.Future podcast to share how this shortage...
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EP43 Bee is for Built Environment
Samantha Peart, Global Head of Sustainability: Hassell are calling for a new state of togetherness centred around reconnecting people, reviving culture, and reinventing cities for a more sustainable and inclusive future. Join in the conversation as Samantha Peart, Global Head of Sustainability,...
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EP42 Futures Thinking for Precincts Design
Anne Kovachevich, Sustainable buildings and precincts leader: Anne Kovachevich is a Foresight Practitioner and seasoned Sustainability Practitioner and leads the sustainable development of buildings and precincts at Mott MacDonald. Combining an engineering background with 25 years in sustainable...
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EP41 Building back better
Ruben Langbroek, head of GRESB: The transition to a sustainable real asset investment sector is imperative. GRESB are driving this transition by providing the industry, property companies, fund managers and infrastructure companies with the data insight and tools needed to make better decisions…
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EP40 Revitalizing our Built Environment
Esther Sperber, Owner at Studio ST Architects: NYC architect, Esther Sperber founded Studio ST Architects in 2003 to focus on sustainable, innovative and responsible design. Combining leading technologies with evolving environmentally friendly design and production methods to revitalise our Built...
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EP39 Engineering the future
Romilly Madew AO FTSE HonFIEAustis, CEO at Engineers Australia: Romilly Madew AO FTSE HonFIEAustis Engineers Australia Chief Executive Officer and has a remarkable track record in shaping the Built Environment landscape. Notably, Romilly was previously CEO for the Green Building Council of...
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EP38 The case for a Circular Bioeconomy
Dr. Florian Graichen, GM at Scion crown research institute. Dr Florian Graichen is an Honorary Professor at the University of Waikato in the School of Engineering and is General Manager for Scion a crown research Institute in New Zealand where he specilaizes in Bioproducts and Biomanufacturing...
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EP37 A mine waste revolution
Karen Chovan, Risk and impact management specialist: Karen Chovan is a tailings risk and impact management specialist, and CEO of Enviro Integration Strategies Inc. A geological engineer with 25 years of experience in mine waste management, Karen is deeply passionate about fostering collaboration...
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Welcome to ARKANCE Think Future Podcast Series. Each week we’re speaking with innovative leaders across AEC and Manufacturing, and engaging with thought leaders for sustainable building, and manufacturing practices, to uncover game changers for the future Built Environment. We’re passionate about helping our listeners keep pace with digital change, across Construction and Manufacturing, so they can achieve their own technological, sustainability and leadership goals.
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