The Building Podcast
Mark Wakeford is Chairman of the National Federation of Builders, vice-chair at Constructing Excellence Midlands and a Governor at Construction College, Moulton College. 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
Mark talks to Dave Tattershall
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This podcast is a solar podcast, exposing the opportunities and challenges associated with a significant roll-out of solar generation capacity across the UK. One of the key challenges in any rapid expansion of work is to ensure that the supply chain is up to the job. Supply chains can become stressed when there is insufficient product or people to design and install the new generation once it has bee procured.
Dave Tattershall is the Chairman of the UK’s largest solar racking manufacturer and he is also the joint chair of the industry’s steering group that is charged with delivering the recommendations within the Solar Road Map, which was the product of the Solar Taskforce. He talks about the ability of UK supply chains to scale up to meet this demand and the continued reliance on the far eastern manufacturers of solar panels, inverters and batteries. Dave also talks about the innovation within the solar sector and the knowledge to innovate to meet the target of 55GW by the end of this decade.
Listen to understand the opportunities for the sector. Listen too if you want to better understand the challenges and risks within the supply chain and the solutions that have been put into action.
Website: https://www.solarport.co.uk/