{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Build It Forward","title":"Be the Developer, the Architect, and the Builder - Vertical Integration with Tim McDonald","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2475,"description":"Become the developer. Become the architect. Become the builder. Tim McDonald didn't do this because it seemed like a good idea. He did it because he couldn't figure out any other way to build what he was trying to build.\nIn this conversation on Build It Forward, recorded at Tim's home on the North Shore of Boston, Nick Falkoff sits down with Tim, co-founder of Onion Flats Architecture, for a conversation that spans nearly 30 years of design-build development in Philadelphia. Tim talks about how he came to passive house in 2008, why he sees it as the only serious answer to what climate change demands of buildings, and how the New Gravity concept helped bring passive house into affordable housing funding applications across 40 states.\nThe conversation also gets into where the work is headed: deep energy retrofits on existing multifamily buildings, panelized wall systems that wrap buildings from the outside while people are still living in them, and the case for why retrofitting existing buildings is more cost effective than tearing them down.\nConnect with Tim McDonald and Onion Flats Architecture:\nhttps://onionflatsarchitecture.com\nThank you to our production partner Benjamin Obdyke. Build Better™ with samples of their roof and wall products:\nhttps://benjaminobdyke.com/get-a-sample-build-forward-podcast\nWork with Auburndale Builders on your high-performance build:\nvision@auburndalebuilders.com\n00:31 Growing up inside a house being built\n02:01 Why architects should never hand off their ideas\n02:53 Japan and the design-build studio that changed everything\n05:13 The turn toward passive house\n09:32 Trial by fire and vertical integration\n16:03 The New Gravity concept and affordable housing policy\n25:39 Climate change as the new gravity\n28:17 Passive house as the answer to resilience\n32:26 Why existing buildings are the real opportunity\n33:47 Panelized retrofits and the Dutch model\nMusic:\nWelcome to the Johnsons from the album Bird Mode by E*Lightning aka Jon Erickson,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/-Ao_bwqJOd8XP1Oqx5_ardqmHaaRKP_qhVtz4noqcLM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iZjE0/MzBkN2UyMTQwMzc0/M2NmZTY4NGRkZDQw/ZDUyZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}