Building better performance: raising construction standards on site and in education, with Joseph Little (TUD)

This week we're going by Joseph Little, Head of Construction & Building Performance in the School of Architecture, Building and Environment at TU Dublin. He joined us to talk about the journey he's been on leading the MSc in Building Performance over the last seven years, but we got into a lot more.

Joseph has been deeply involved in the promotion of better building standards by measuring the performance of buildings for years. Not least with the five Breaking the Mould articles he wrote that Jeff published years ago, sounding the alarm on moisture, condensation, ventilation and a bunch of other issues.

We get into all of it and tried to be mindful to keep it to a 'reasonable' length. I'm sure we'll have him back though.

Notes from the show

• Joseph Little on LinkedIn
• BE-ST Fest Summit 2024 - The UK's biggest festival for a zero-carbon built environment, Wednesday 6th November 2024
• The Built to Last case studies hosted on the Dublin City Council website
• Joseph's papers and articles on the TU Dublin Arrow repository
• This is A link to the Springboard web page for TU412 Postgrad Certificate in Building Performance open until the end of August 2024, apply during June to get best chance of a subsidised place; oddly, it'll only direct you there if you're in Ireland, so more info can be found here on the TU Dublin website
• Partial fill cavity wall: have we reached the limits of the technology? By Joseph Little
• Breaking the Mould 1 by Joseph Little
• Breaking the Mould 2 by Joseph Little
• Breaking the Mould 3 by Joseph Little 
• Breaking the Mould 4 by Joseph Little
• Breaking the Mould 5 by Joseph Little
• Thermal bypass risks: A technical review (September 2022), by Mark Siddall

  
  

**SOME SELF-PROMOTING CALLS TO ACTION**
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• Follow us on the Zero Ambitions LinkedIn page (we still don't have a website)
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• Check Lloyd's Substack: Carbon Upfront
• Join ACAN
• Join the AECB 
• Join the IGBC
• Check out Her Own Space, the renovation and retrofit platform for women (but not in a patronizing way)

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