Finely Tuned: Recent Episodes
Gridium
Listen in as we talk with people who care about our built environment, the energy it uses, and how it's all maintained. This podcast is built by Gridium.
Matthew Kropp–Managing Director and Partner at Boston Consulting Groug–discuss his firm’s work studying 48 technology companies and their role in climate change action.
Jamie Mandel–Managing Director, Rocky Mountain Institute–and Phil Keuhn–Principal, RMI–discuss energy project portfolio optimization and the value of green leases for real estate owners and investors.
Natalie Mims Frick–Energy Efficiency Program Manager at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory–discusses her DOE-supported research and the importance of efficiency resources.
Dror Poleg–Author and Co-Chair of the Urban Land Institute’s Technology and Innovation Council in New York–discusses his new book on how technology is changing the way humans work, live, eat, shop, and travel.
Fred Gordy–Director of Cybersecurity at Intelligent Buildings–discusses the growth in BMS hacking attacks and NIST-based frameworks for defense.
Atul Khanzode–Technology and Innovation Leader at DPR Construction–discusses digital twins, designing for efficiency, and deploying technology.
J.P. Pascoli–P.E. and Director, Physical Asset Management & Reliability at the world’s second-largest uranium producer–discusses how we can tune the settings of engineering education to fit to actual engineering careers.
Nigel Marcussen–VP, Head of Building Engineering at WeWork–discusses how his team delivers productive, collaborative environments at the world’s fastest growing real estate tech company.
Ram Rajagopal–Associate Professor at Stanford University and Principal Investigator of the Powernet–discusses this ARPA-E program to develop an end-to-end, open-source system that will enable real-time coordination of utilities’ centralized assets with millions of distributed energy resources.
Kara Bartelt–Director of Operations, The Hoxton Los Angeles–discusses urban design, architecture, and engineering in dynamic built environments.
Mark Shahinian–President, Future Grid Coalition–discusses America’s rapidly-changing energy infrastructure and Normalized Metered Energy Consumption (NMEC)
John Sterman–Professor of Management at MIT & Director of the Sloan Sustainability Initiative–discusses the power of process improvements and the role change management can play in society’s response to climate change.
Richard Hart–Strategic Energy Management at Cascade Energy–discusses how building operators can save time and money by cherry picking the best ideas from lean manufacturing.
Steven Lubar–Professor of American Studies, Brown University–discusses what it’s like to take 13 first-years from the museum to the machine shop in search of a new understanding of skill.
Thaddeus Miller–Assistant Professor, Arizona State University–discusses the infrastructure crossroads facing the United States.
Eugene Skelton–NASA, Satellite Servicing Projects Division–discusses Rendezvous and Proximity Operations on NASA’s Raven mission.
Dr. Hodkiewicz–of The University of Western Australia–and team asked 176 maintainers about their work and what makes procedures effective.
NASA astronaut Dr. Edward Gibson–who spent a record 84 days living in space–discusses repair and space station maintenance on Skylab.
Michael Bennon, Managing Director at the Global Projects Center at Stanford University, discusses infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships in an era of compounding deferred maintenance deficits.
Talking with Dr. Layne Karafantis of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum about human factors engineering initiatives in the maintenance of complex aerospace systems.
A discussion with Joe Tormos–Facilities Engineering Manager for Hines at Airbnb–about the three main components of a preventive maintenance program.
A chat with Prof. Jon Christensen–of UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the Department of History, and the Center for Digital Humanities–on what the data from $5.4 billion and 2,174 projects tells us about the progress and pitfalls of modern conservation.
A conversation with Andy Russell, Dean and Professor in the College of Arts & Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, on society's focus on innovation, which keeps us from thinking about and crediting the maintainers who keep everything working.
A conversation with Lee Vinsel, assistant professor of science and technology studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology, about the need for balance between innovation, technology, and maintenance.
A conversation on cybersecurity in the built environment, hacking a BMS, and what you can do to stop it, with Fred Gordy from Intelligent Buildings.
A conversation on healthy building spaces, the difference between LEED and WELL, and people and buildings, with Darin Bernstein of Cushman & Wakefield.
Andy Shatney, Energy Project Coordinator with the City of Santa Cruz, and James Lonergan, Project Engineer with Enovity, discuss energy data analytics and commissioning.
Sara Neff, SVP of Sustainability at Kilroy Realty, explores the 5 Whys problem solving method and how it helped Kilroy's tenants install LEDs.