The Future We Build (Season 1 Trailer)
A Brave Ideas network affiliated show featuring Alex Edds
Buildings account for 34% of global CO2 emissions. The way we construct, finance, and manage the built environment will determine whether we meet our climate goals—or fall catastrophically short. Beyond that, the construction and maintenance of buildings uses vast amounts of resources, the majority of which are extracted, used and disposed in the typical linear model.
And then there is us. We spend 90% of our time indoors. As Winston Churchill once said “we shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us.”
We need to make buildings and spaces better for us - our health and wellbeing.
Welcome to The Future We Build
A podcast for the people creating fundamental change in how we build, invest in, and inhabit our world.
This isn’t about incremental improvements or polished corporate messaging. These are the hallway conversations that happen after industry conferences end—candid insights from sustainability leaders, PropTech innovators, and real estate futurists who are fundamentally rethinking our approach to the built environment.
Season 1 brings you inside conversations with:
🏢 Sustainability heads and former heads from major investment managers including Nuveen, CBRE IM, and Savills IM
🔄 Former sustainability executives now free to speak candidly about what’s actually working—and what isn’t
🏗️ Leaders pioneering new construction methods, materials, and procurement approaches
🤖 Visionaries exploring AI’s role in transforming real estate
📊 Experts tackling the data challenges that underpin regulatory disclosure and capital allocation
🏗️ Industry bodies such as Better Buildings Partnership, UK Green Building Council and UK PropTech Association
🌱 Innovators, Venture Capitalists and emerging PropTech companies
Hosted by Alex Edds
A sustainability and innovation professional with 20 years across real estate investment management, consulting, corporate innovation, and PropTech.
In a world where sustainability performance is now table stakes for raising institutional capital, we explore the practical tensions between financial returns and climate goals, the regulatory complexity reshaping the industry, and the emerging technologies that promise to help us build differently.
New episodes coming soon.
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