The Building Podcast with Mark Wakeford
Mark Wakeford is Chairman 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
Mark talks to Dr Olga Kozlova - Oxford University
The rate of change that businesses face continues to increase. Whether this is due to technology from iphone to AI, Covid-19 and the rise of the mental health challenge, wars in Europe and the Middle East, or climate change. Each is...
Mark talks to Kamil Kluza - Climate X
Climate change is creating risks for construction clients around the world. What do we build? How do we make it resilient? Where do we build and what are the long-term risks from climate change that I need to take into account...
Mark talks to Rakesh Maharaj - Global Solar Council
The Global Solar Council is the worldwide trade body for the solar sector. It exists to promote solar and battery storage around the world and it has members in every continent that include regional trade bodies, individual corporates and...
Mark talks to Simon Berry - Anchor
When responsible for 56,000 dwellings that are almost exclusively for vulnerable people towards the end of their lives, security and maintenance of building assets becomes a vital service. Your customers depend upon an effective and affor...
Mark talks to Susan Rose - Susan Rose China
We think that construction is a challenging sector to work within. English China pottery is another level of complexity again, with only a handful of businesses left in place in their cultural homeland of Stoke on Trent. Susan Rose ...