The Building Podcast with Mark Wakeford
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!
The Building Podcast with Mark Wakeford
Latest Episodes
Construction Skills - Government is trying to help - Get involved to secure your legacy and the future of your business
Construction skills remain a challenge for the industry. Construction is recruiting fewer new recruits, and our average age of tradesperson continues to increase. Where and how is our sector going to find the people with the skills ...
Decentralised and Democratised Energy - How to get your Community Energy scheme off the ground and onto site
Community Energy is heralded as the best way to mobilise communities to develop and invest in their own energy schemes, the easiest being wind or solar. A project starts with the germ of an idea and a group of keen and curious individuals...
GB Energy – Driving an energy revolution through community energy schemes
GB Energy has been created to drive the renewable energy revolution through out the United Kingdom. One element of this is the near £1Bn fund for 1,000 community energy schemes to be delivered nationally by 2030. This fund will gene...
Construction Robots – How to be part of a £300Bn industry by 2030 – Fact or Fiction?
Government is planning for a £200 - £300Bn industry by 2030 and Agnes Wamagui is in the epicentre of this aspiration. Agnes is the Knowledge Transfer Manager for Robots within Innovate UK, the Government’s agency for funding and promoting...
Protecting Your Greatest Asset: Why Safeguarding matters to us all
Companies often state that people are their biggest and most important asset. The UK construction industry has the highest suicide rate of any sector, so we might argue that we are not looking after this asset at all well. Couple this wit...