{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Zero Ambitions Podcast","title":"Developers can build sustainably and at scale, if they want to. With Nicola Cronin and Stephen O'Shea (Cairn Homes Plc)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4280,"description":"A wise woman once said: \"sustainability is the doing, ESG is the talking about it\".\nToday an Irish house-building giant has made a major move on Passive House — publishing a positioning paper and announcing the ongoing construction of over 1,700 homes to the standard.\nJoining us to talk about this are Nicola Cronin (Senior Sustainability Analyst) and Stephen O'Shea (Head of Sustainable Construction and ESG Reporting).\n\nRather than this being another episode about Passive House we're more concerned with why a massive housebuilder has chosen to build to the standard. In this case, the answer highlights the positive impact that corporate reporting – in this case ESG – can have on the practice of construction. \nWhere we've often derided ESG factors as a corporate fig leaf, in this instance ESG factors have driven institutional change. Most importantly, the scale of this change clearly illustrates the massive impact that big developers can have. If they choose to try.\nIn short, we're talking about how change is made and why change is made.\n\nLinks are below.\nNotes from the show\nNicola Cronin on LinkedIn\nStephen O'Shea on LinkedIn\nCairn Homes' Passive House positioning paper\nCairn on LinkedIn\nCairn Homes' 2023 sustainability report\n\n**SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**\nWe don't actually earn anything from this, and it's quite a lot of work, so we have to promote the day jobs.\nFollow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a proper website)\nJeff, Alex, and Dan about websites, branding, and communications - zap@eiux.agency; Everything is User Experience\nSubscribe and advertise with Passive House Plus (UK edition here too)\nCheck Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront\nJoin ACAN\nJoin the AECB \nJoin the IGBC\nCheck out Her Own Space, the renovation and retrofit platform for women\n\n**END OF SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/imp-PGTK0p-Yir06lCKyRzcHa9UWxL7NtYiXEdkSiXw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI2NDY5LzE2OTYy/ODc4ODAtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}