Host Seth Scott interviews Andy Hill, Founder of Planet Price Andy Hill is the Founder of Planet Price, a software company that incorporates the cost of planetary boundaries in infrastructure procurement. A mechanical engineer, Andy is also ANZ Director at Hemisphere Partners, an M&A firm. He serves on the board and is an angel investor and mentor for several startups. Andy shows us how the so called externalities really account for 20-30% of a project's cost, how to find those costs, and how to reduce them. 👉 We'd love to hear your feedback, share your thoughts on the comment section below. 👉 Like & Subscribe so you won't miss out on our upcoming episodes! 👉 Keep up to date with the Infrastructure Sustainability Council: Website: https://www.iscouncil.org/ LinkedIn: / infrastructure-sustainability-council #podcast #infrastructureconnections #infrastructure #sustainability #buildingtomorrow
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S3E2 - Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure w/ Anthony Kane
Host Seth Scott interviews Anthony Kane, President and CEO of Assistant Professor of Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure. Anthony Kane is President & CEO of the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI), a Washington, DC-based nonprofit which facilitates the Envision Sustainable Infrastructure Framework. Anthony also serves as a commissioner on the DC Commission on Climate Change and Resiliency. Envision is a rating system very similar to the IS Rating, and we often collaborate. IN this episode, we're exploring how the Envision sustainability rating works in countries as diverse as the US, Canada, Columbia, Guatemala, China, and even Ethiopia. 👉 We'd love to hear your feedback, share your thoughts on the comment section below. 👉 Like & Subscribe so you won't miss out on our upcoming episodes! 👉 Keep up to date with the Infrastructure Sustainability Council: Website: https://www.iscouncil.org/ LinkedIn: / infrastructure-sustainability-council #podcast #infrastructure #sustainability #buildingtomorrow
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S3E1 - State Capacity and Infrastructure Costs w/ Cailin Slattery
Host Seth Scott interviews Cailin Slattery, Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business. Cailin brings us her findings from the paper “State Capacity and Infrastructure Costs” (co-authored with Yale Law School Professor Zachary Liscow and Columbia University's William Nober). Key findings of the report: 👉 One addtional transport employee per 1,000 residents is correlated with 26% lower costs at the project level. 👉 Experience engineers and professionals in the upper 75th percentile are associate dwith 14% rductions in project-level costs. 👉 A single high-quality engineer can save a project up to $750,000 a year 👉 The departure of an experienced engineer can result in cost increases equal to six times their salary. This is equally true if they leave for retirement, the private sector, or an overseas position. 👉 For all these reasons, proponents should be willing to pay up high-quality engineers up to $300,000 per year, well over twice the industry average, to reain that knowledge in house, in the pipeline, and available to the next generation of professionals. ⭐ Links to some of the resources mentioned in the podcast: "State Capacity and Infrastructure Costs": https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4522676 Yale Tobin Center for Economic Policy: "Experienced state employees can deliver big savings on infrastructure": https://tobin.yale.edu/research/experienced-state-employees-can-deliver-big-savings-infrastructure 👉 We'd love to hear your feedback, share your thoughts on the comment section below. 👉 Like & Subscribe so you won't miss out on our upcoming episodes! 👉 Keep up to date with the Infrastructure Sustainability Council: Website: https://www.iscouncil.org/ LinkedIn: / infrastructure-sustainability-council #podcast #infrastructure #sustainability #buildingtomorrow
Host Seth Scott interviews Tania Hyde, Technical Director & Circular Design Lead (Transport & Infrastructure) at Beca. One of our most detailed episodes yet, Tania talks about Beca's Circular Design Framework, how infrastructure projects can achieve circular principles by asking tough questions, accounting for the Planet Price in purchasing, and free Circular Spatial Planning from TU Delft. 👉 We'd love to hear your feedback, share your thoughts on the comment section below. 👉 Like & Subscribe so you won't miss out on our upcoming episodes! 👉 Keep up to date with the Infrastructure Sustainability Council: Website: https://www.iscouncil.org/ LinkedIn: / infrastructure-sustainability-council #podcast #infrastructure #sustainability #buildingtomorrow
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S2E6 - Australia's Circular Economy w/ Lisa McLean
During our interview with Lisa McLean, Managing Director and CEO of Circular Australia, we learned of some of the impressive circular initiatives happening in Australia, such as: - The importance of building circular "precincts", a place to keep resources in circulation locally. - The new ISO 59000 Global Framework for implementing circular economy principles - Several of Circular Australia's members doing amazing things, such as Allmould's collection of St. Vincent's Hospital's plastics waste to form new plastic blocks for use in the wind industry. Lisa is the Managing Director and CEO of Circular Australia, an independent peak body for circular economy innovation. She has successfully advised industry and governments to bring market change with new policy frameworks and regulations enabling the circular zero-carbon economy over the next 20 years. Formerly a political journalist, Lisa was also founder of the carbon accounting service Carbonwise and helped establish the Clinton Climate Initiative. Lisa is leading the transition to a zero-carbon circular economy in Australia. 👉 We'd love to hear your feedback, share your questions or comments below. 👉 Like & Subscribe so you won't miss out on our upcoming episodes! 👉 Keep up to date with the Infrastructure Sustainability Council: Website: https://www.iscouncil.org/ LinkedIn: / infrastructure-sustainability-council #podcast #infrastructure #sustainability #buildingtomorrow
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