Built + Beyond
It’s a podcast. It’s a think-tank. It’s about architecture, design, engineering, construction, energy, environment, resiliency…you get the drift. We have guests. We have insight. We talk about technical stuff, real stuff, future stuff, data stuff, digital stuff. (And getting all the sweet keywords into our intro description). We chat about the built and natural environment. We agree, we agree to disagree, we share trends and knowledge and cool tools. We invite you to listen.
Episodes
23 episodes
Floods + Fire – Mitigating Risk in Montecito
In recent years, the United States has experienced frequent and severe natural disasters, driven in part by climate change, from devastating wildfires to powerful hurricanes, communities across the country are grappling with profound impacts of...
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Season 5
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Episode 3
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40:04
Water Quality Innovation and Investigations
The water quality of our waterways is an issue of global concern. The quality of the water in rivers, lakes and coastal environments is affected by a number of challenges including sewage pollution, agriculture and livestock. Join ...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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32:46
Beneficial Use of Dredging Material
The Army corps of engineers recently estimated that, historically, roughly 30 percent of dredge volume in the US has been beneficially reused.Reuse encompasses a wide range of applications including construction materials, beach nourish...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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17:53
Water Biosolids Paradigm Shift
Today’s episode is all about biosolids, including gaining insight into global trends and discussing some of the key challenges and opportunities faced by the sector and recognizing that there’s a paradigm shift happening.Biosolids produc...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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23:46
Water Asset Management
Why water asset management? Good question. Join us as we talk about the challenges facing water utilities—climate change, financial and commercial pressures, depleting availability of the workforce—and how asset management can help.Utili...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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32:17
Dam Safety Part 2: Know Your Risk
Know your risk.There is something you can do to make a difference in your community’s dam risk resilience.This second-in-a-series of podcast episodes highlighting dam safety focuses on risk associated with dams. W...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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37:37
Understanding Transportation Vulnerabilities and Resilience Through a Digital Twin
From hurricanes to heat waves, a 200-mile corridor in North Carolina is facing increasing climate change challenges. Stephen Bourne, Atkins resiliency expert, and Matt Lauffer, North Carolina DOT hydraulics design engineer, explain...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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23:20
Climate Change and Water Resilience - Part 2
This is the second roundtable episode and we’re talking about climate change. Specifically helping communities understand its impacts and the engineering tools to evaluate and respond to it. We’re also discussing equitable water resiliency effo...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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17:48
Climate Change and Water Resilience - Part 1
This is the first episode on climate change and water resilience. We’re talking about the science behind climate change and the water impacts we’re seeing. We’re also discussing the development of policy regulation and how our communities can p...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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35:19
Decarbonomics: Making carbon visible in the built environment with data and technology
Buildings are one of the largest contributors to emissions.If you own, operate or manage existing buildings this episode is for you.We’re chatting about decarbonization plus economics – we call it Decarbonomics. It’s just...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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27:30
Coastal Resilience: Tools & Technologies
As more of the population migrates to coastal areas, the need to improve aging infrastructure and make communities more resilient grows with it. Join us as we talk about the challenges that coastal communities are facing from climate change. Fr...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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34:10
Dam Safety Part 1: National Dam Safety Awareness
Let’s talk about dams.Join us as we dig into dam safety awareness. We’ll talk about a pivotal incident in history that to this day is an impetus to being proactive about dam safety and is the reason why there’s a National Dam Safety Pro...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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28:12
Improving Rail Safety and Efficiency with Communications-Based Train Control
On this episode, find out how transit agencies in the US and around the globe are upgrading their signaling systems. Atkins’ Kurt Goddard, transit sector manager, along with Gavin Martin, director of rail and transit and Paul Smith, senior cons...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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38:08
Using Drones for Asset Inspections and Data Collection
The City of Houston has embarked on an aerial mission to capture the conditions of some assets in hard-to-reach places. From catch basins that are inaccessible by foot to miles of elevated pipelines, drones are doing the hard work. Join Jeremy ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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19:25
Data: Your most valuable asset - Part 4
Our final episode deals with the last two stages of the data lifecycle:Distribution - Taking the data that was analyzed and getting it to the right people. Removal - Knowing the timeframe you need to keep...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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17:26
Planning for the Climate Crisis
In 2018, a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico changed rapidly into a Category 5 hurricane that devastated Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Florida. A few months later, a catastrophic flood in the Missouri River basin completely inunda...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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33:39
PMO Part 1 – What do you know?
Acronyms are pervasive in the consulting and engineering world. And PMO is no exception. PMOs can be referred to as Project, Program and sometimes Portfolio Management Offices. Over the course of this series, we’ll be talking mostly...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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13:52
Data: Your most valuable asset - Part 3
Data warehousing is playing a bigger role in the assimilation of enterprise data. If you’re intimidated by the thought of implementing a data warehouse, don’t be! John, Soraya and Allen break it down. We’ll talk about how to take data from one ...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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22:40
Data: Your most valuable asset - Part 2
We’re back with part two of Data: Your most valuable asset. An important piece to implementing a data governance program is preparing for change through organizational change management – informing staff of why changes are neede...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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20:10
How Actionable Climate Data Can Help Support Sustainable and Resilient Communities
Last month, a brutal winter storm brought freezing temperatures and snow across a wide swath of Texas, knocking out power plants and forcing millions to go without power and heat in subzero temperatures. Now, people are asking why utilities, la...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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25:42
Data: Your most valuable asset - Part 1
This multi-part discussion will take you through the concept of data as an asset including three key pillars: Data Governance, Enterprise Data Warehousing and Data Analytics (including reporting).Find out what steps you n...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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20:23
Dare to be Different – Embracing Gender Diversity in the Workplace
What do you get when two successful female leaders come together to talk about gender diversity in the workplace? Professional insight, personal stories, and lots of lively discussion. They’ll chat about ways that companies in the AEC industry ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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41:58
Forces & Factors that Fracture – a COVID-19 Pandemic Response
We’re living in a challenge in real time. Particularly from an evolutionary perspective. The COVID-19 pandemic is causing immense change and disruption to every industry, not the least of which is the AEC industry. But is there a silver lining?...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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34:35
