The Architecture Social Show, Pilot!

The Architecture Social Show, Pilot!
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Will Ridgway: [00:00:00] Hello and welcome to the Architecture Social Show with me, Will Ridgway and Stephen Drew. How you doing? All right, Will. How's it

Stephen Drew: going? Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm not too bad. How about yourself? I'm good, I'm good. So we're, we're here, we're live, we're doing the Architecture Social Show. I did put the name out on the Architecture Social and we are naming it, and a few of the contenders were on the go go.

Food for thought. Have I got views for you? I'm pretty sure that we'll get copyright infringement for that. And then the other one was the architectural sofa. But until then, I think we're going to be the architectural social show. But with a lot of this today, Will, we've got a bit of news, we've got a bit of stuff going on, and we're kind of [00:01:00] designing it as we go, right?

So hopefully the listeners Wherever they are, whoever BIM initiative. Oh no, hang on, we haven't even started yet! Give me a break! And this is the, this is the, this is the pilot episode. So we're going to be tweaking the formula. Okay. And so just to kind of anyone listening, because if you've got any design suggestions.

I'd love to hear from them. So before this, I was showing Will all the stuff I've got going on my soundboard. Oh, good afternoon Chris, how are you? Hey, there you go, Chris. Loving the going. Alright, so, Will, pre convision here. Hello Chris, pre convision, how are you? So, sounds, okay. So we've got sounds. Ruchi, hello Ruchi, how are you?

So, Here's a fitting sound for how everyone feels in coronavirus.[00:02:00]

It's a bit stressful right now. Okay, the other sound I've got going is how we feel doing this preview show. Pressure. Pressure. That's quite calming though. Do you think? Do you think it's calming? All right. And then I've, then I've got like sirens kicking off and stuff. So we've got the sounds, but we need content because I can't just be here on the soundboard making up sounds for a while.

Although I do quite like a few of the voices here. You enjoyed this one earlier, didn't you, Will? So that's my, Come on, guys. We gotta do it. Second lockdown. Stay safe. Save lives. Love for that job. You can do it. You can do it. Oh, here we go. Will, get professional. Get professional. The MD of McDonald and Company is here.

Hello, Simon. We are doing the architecture news in a second. Will, get professional. The boss is here. Huh? You've [00:03:00] gone really red, Will. Yeah, I'm laughing. All right, cool. All right. We're in danger of turning into a parody of ourselves. We are not in danger. We've got the soundboard. Don't worry, I've turned the sounds up.

So, we've got an exciting new show here today, haven't we? Oh, Anthony Stories here! Hey, Anthony Story! Absolutely love Story. I miss Being in the office with you and look, look how red we're making. Well, all right, onwards with the show, onwards with the show. So we've got curated news. We've got curated news today.

Oh, poorly organized because this is our first episode. So we got news, we got jobs. Well, and also actually we need a little. Bit of a moment, because Will, it's a tough ride right now, and we're lucky that we've got the support of McDonnell Company as well. But unfortunately, this week, you're on furlough, aren't you Will?

How do [00:04:00] you feel? How do you feel? Are you alright?

Will Ridgway: Yeah, I'm alright. I'll have to keep myself occupied with this and planning the poorly organised news as well.

Stephen Drew: Will. I did that song for you to cheer you up on furlough, all right? So, don't worry, we're getting you back. We're getting you back! That's what the furlough scheme's for. But it is tough in architecture right now, it is tough. But in the meantime, we're gonna have a little special. Well, we need a little update.

What have you been up to this week? Before we get on to the juicy news, what have you been up to? Have you taken the bins out? Have you done any training? Have I

Will Ridgway: done any training? Cos you are allowed to do training. I am allowed to do training. I've been, well, first of all, I've been preparing, preparing this entire show.

So everything that you see here is all down to my my preparation and, you know, organization skills. But you know, I've just sort of been you know, doing some, you [00:05:00] know, doing some stuff in my own time, really No pressure from me, I'm Dave. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoying some morning walks, you know, just trying to get some fresh air, enjoy a bit of enjoy a bit of the sunshine and rain, really.

Stephen Drew: Well, this is it. Now, and also you've got to get my Christmas present because you didn't get my birthday present after promising me, did you? My birthday present is still pending. I'll probably arrive sometime next year. You can't bundle it with Christmas because I, I, I, I invented that trick. So you're gonna, you're gonna get me something new.

All right, but in the short term, you're gonna also keep an eye on the news and everything. And obviously, so we have got a few jobs on the team. We have got a few jobs on the team as well, but until then, yeah, you're gonna, I want you to rest up, Will. I want you to keep an eye on the news and I want the weekly Will update.

So next week, we're going to have a little a little update. Yeah. Taking the bins out. Well, it's, you know, some people are on furlough as well. And I, you know, I was on furlough before and it's good to have a little [00:06:00] update. So please, please, please do let us know. Have a little vote guys, what we think Will will be up to as well.

Or what I should be up to. Oh, we should put a poll, a prediction poll on it. Right. Well, come on Will, it's not all about you. Well, it's not all about you. It's about a bit of architecture news as well, isn't it? So let's go back to the. Poorly organized architectural news of the week. Okay, all right, let's bring it up.

So I have got here, I've got to get, I've got to get my I've got to get my news, haven't I? I'm sweating you, Will, I'm not used to this. I don't worry, it's poorly organized, that's why. I could open the, I could open the window up, but the thing is, then you'll get all the noise, won't you? We'll, we'll make do right.

So I'm gonna bring up the news here, so, okay. One sec. Sorry. Hey, we've got it right. Okay, so the first news world, do you wanna comment on what you thought would be really interesting to talk about? 'cause we need a bit of [00:07:00] upbeat entertainment. It's absolutely, I don't wanna hear about Boris. We've gotta, we're gonna mix the formula up.

So what have we got going? You will.

Will Ridgway: Yeah. Well FO partners last week announced. the arrival of the boston dynamic dog i think that's what it's called and basically it runs around and does a few cool little jobs from my understanding i think it's for on construction sites it goes on construction sites goes up and downs and basically I think maps the area basically to make sure that the design stays true to what's actually happening on site.

I think that's its main purpose, which is kind of cool because when I, when I first saw this the Boston dynamic dog in general, I was thinking, well, it's a cool idea, but how would, how would it be useful for day to day activities and fostering partners have found a good use, which is I think what's showing the video right now on the construction sites.

Stephen Drew: I like it. I'm looking at it now. Look at this. It's scanning things. It reminds me of the old video games, you know, when you're sneaking around and it's one of the enemies, but that's going [00:08:00] to be Don't worry, it's not sneaking around a construction site to kill anyone. It's literally scanning the environment.

Will Ridgway: We saw it get its pass there, so it should be there, you know. It's not there on site accidentally. You know, it's got its construction pass.

Stephen Drew: It's so cool. I like it. How much do you think they cost? A lot. I think they're quite expensive. Yeah. Look at that. I think so as well. This is so much. I could do that job because I'm good at the I got the controller as well.

How cool is this guys? Has anyone ever seen these dogs before? How cool would this be? No, not in real life. And it's waterproof, that's pretty cool. Here we go, here we go. And this is, this is supposed to be the partner's office, isn't it? It's pretty cool. All right. Oh, I've got a little update as well coming in.

Wow, we got so many comments. I can't keep up guys. This is awesome. So, Dr. Liz says, where are the women? Good question. We need more female guests on the Architecture Social. [00:09:00] That would be awesome. And we have a woman here! Hey! Anonymous lady. Fantastic. We will get there, guys. More than welcome woman on the show.

Absolutely. It's very important. Some of the best items I know are female. So, alright, cool. Next bit, so I like that. What's your, what's your guys thoughts on it? Bit War of the Worlds. Bit, do you think so? It's scanning around the corner.

Will Ridgway: They'll have robot people taking architecture jobs

Stephen Drew: and then we'll be in trouble then.

Here we go, so it's interesting from BIM Initiative. It's got this incredible mobility, the scan is serious brass, but it is going to get cheaper. There you go, so it's expensive. It's expensive. We're going to get there. Here you go. My whippet ex dog named Lutens welcomes clients, reduces stress, and is more cuddly to stroke than a Spartan.

He's a regular at work. I've got a dog as well, a little Boston Terrier, but I do, I do love [00:10:00] the look of a Spartan. I've got another question here from Jordan. Can the dog also do measured surveys? I think if we listen to it, she says that we could one of the Foster's architects said that you could do it.

But I haven't put the sound on yet because I'm not too sure whether I'll get copyright infringement. So we haven't done that. Joshua says, feels too much like Black Mirror, but strong potential for inaccessible sites. That is true, actually. It does look a little bit like the Black Mirror episodes. Have you seen that one, Will?

No, I haven't. I don't watch many of the Black Mirrors at all. Right, well, you're on furlough, so by next week, I want a movie review. Black Mirror. Now, for anyone that doesn't know Will, and the fantastic Anthony story, can vouch for me. A thank you story that Will hasn't seen many, many films. So we need, Will, you're going to watch Black Mirror.

All right. Oh no, sorry. It's a, it's a, it's a series. [00:11:00] Sorry, Will, the pressure's, the pressure's getting to me. Okay, I've got to stop putting down my balance and stuff. Right, so the next bit of news we got here. So you did talk about it as well, the dog, didn't you? It's part of the dog. So this was the news. So it's all on Foster's and Partners websites.

You can have a little look at that. That's cool. OK, my attention span to reading this isn't the best way. Well, you know, you know, I'm like Anchorman. You can't give me text like this. I wasn't asking you to read it. It was just

Will Ridgway: there for the resort. It was just there to show that I wasn't making up, you know?

Stephen Drew: Yeah. Yeah. This is it. There you go, Dr. Liz. Says, well, you need to spend your fur watching films and a bit of training. Well, I need you tip top and ready for when you come back. All right, watching

Will Ridgway: films.

Stephen Drew: Yeah. Oh, have you watched The Fountain Pen, Will? No. I don't know what it is. It's a classic architecture film.

You'd like him. It's really good. Old school. There you go. That's a really good one. Has anyone seen The Fountain Pen? [00:12:00] Let us know. Okay. Next bit of news, because I think it's important we do the news. And it is truly living up to the title right now of it's quite poorly organized. Poorly organized. Because I'm trying to work it out.

Guys, give me one second. Oh man. Oh man. Okay, well, do you want to tell us what this one is, my friend?

Will Ridgway: This one. So this is Cole Church House. It's a building from 19 I can't remember, I'll be completely honest. You can't remember? I can't. But basically, I know Foster and Partners are in the news this week.

Again, I mean I was already in the news this week with the Boston Dynamite Dog and then also with the ongoing dispute with their proposed plans for the Tulip but this is a more interesting project in my opinion because it's, it's all about redeveloping Colchurch House. Which is, you know, commercial office block into a, you know, redevelop it into a net zero carbon office building, which would be the first [00:13:00] one of its type in London.

So you know, step in the right direction and I'm sure it won't be the last one as well. Net zero carbon. You know what,

Stephen Drew: this, you know, back in the old days before, you know, 2020, this would be my commute home past this area. And it makes sense because, yeah, this little bit here, oh, you can't see my mouse on the screen, but on this picture in particular, oh, you can if you hover over it.

So I used to walk past here, you know, and, you know, in there, as you do down there. And the space is a bit dense, so I think it'd be quite nice. It's interesting though, isn't it? Yeah.

Will Ridgway: I think it's you know, it's, it's brilliant that so many architecture practices now, you now are, you know, have taken more interest in being net zero carbon.

It's, it's, it's particularly important as we've experienced, you know, problems with climate right now. And then also the fact that the government is. I think the government [00:14:00] announced this week about planning to be net zero carbon by 2050. I think they've put out a interesting set of plans to do so.

So, you know, obviously Foster Home Partners, head of the game, along with so many other architectures practices, you know, I can't just single out Foster Home Partners. There's lots of other architectures practices who have already been doing this and all around the country. I think

Stephen Drew: you love Foster's and Partners, Will.

We need to get Norman out this way. No, it's just that it's the first one, the first office in London, that's why. It is, it is interesting, and I was looking at the news today, wasn't it, where Boris Johnson has kind of outlined that a petrol and diesel cars are banned from 2030. That's insane. Oh, I should ring my dad up actually, because he's in the car industry.

Hey dad, I see electric cars coming on. But look, we've got so many comments here, just to bring up a few while before we move on to the next one. So we've got some super, super comments. Ruchi says we're hilarious. Well, we've got to get a bit more serious here and we've got to get the balance down.

Will Ridgway: This [00:15:00] is a news, it's meant to be serious, it's not meant to be a laugh and a joke.

Stephen Drew: Ah, I don't want it too serious though, I feel like it's all doom and gloom these days, isn't it? Here we go. We're getting there. Let's see what other comments we got here. The Fountainhead the film, talked about earlier, it's supposed to be about Frank Lloyd Wright. There you go. That's a bit of news in itself, isn't it?

I think Dr. Liz is doing better than us on the news, to be honest, Will, so far. I'll be completely honest, yeah. Right, okay, let's keep going. This is pretty cool. And then what else have we got here now? So, we have got here in the next link, this is like Mikhail Richards roundup, isn't it? Okay, what's this about, Will?

Will Ridgway: The tea? It was more for, it was more for, it's less about the orchard tea, unfortunately. It was more about this particular project. I feel like, I feel like a cup of tea. Another one with net zero carbon. Basically, it's a I think it's about six, six hundred? 600 [00:16:00] homes can be up in York and it's, you know, obviously it's a huge development as a large development as it is, but again, it's going to be net zero carbon which is again, brilliant.

And it's, it's a lot, I think it's the largest one in the country the largest scheme to do that in the country. And so again, I thought it was worthwhile bringing it up really. I think this week is. around the whole sustainability and you know, sustainability environment for architecture. Talking about it.

I think there's a, I think there was a live event that actually happened this morning. What's it called? Is it net zero life? I can't remember, but they you know, You know, it's widely in the news at the moment of, you know, sustainability and so forth. And I thought it was relevant to bring it up really.

Stephen Drew: Yeah. I mean,

Will Ridgway: I've got

Stephen Drew: a bit, unfortunately. I love it, mate. No, I think this is I think you've highlighted something because I really enjoy the fact that a lot of these links here what I'd be really keen to do as well as we kind of develop this out. Cause guys, this is the first episode, [00:17:00] right? And so we had the giggle at the start.

Now we're getting into the nitty gritty, you know, what's happening on architecture. And what I would love to do is bring more and more light on maybe the projects is of the small to medium practices, which aren't always in the news as well. I think that'd be really good. Isn't it? Well, so I really like that.

I really like this scheme. I think it's really interesting. Let's get your comments down below. And sorry, I was scrolling through a bit, but I forget that I'm actually, this is on the main screen. So I'm whirling through it and then I'm like, Oh, I've got to remember that I'm sharing it as well. So Okay, which is a more maybe what I'll do in the future.

Well, is that what we'll do is maybe at the bottom, we'll put in the links to it. So I can say if anyone wants to look at this now, then you would go to this link. Yeah, there you go. Oh, that's probably a smart way of doing it, isn't it? Well, so when we, yeah, I don't know. I don't even

Will Ridgway: copy that, though, unfortunately.

And then paste it and you'd have to. We'll type it word for word, [00:18:00] so Oh, maybe, we'll figure something out.

Stephen Drew: Oh, there you go. I can put it in the comments to everyone. Oh, okay, brilliant. Done. Alright, great. So that, we'll do that. Can you write comments as well, Will? You've banned me. I've banned you.

I'm definitely going to de ban you from writing comments. Right, this is going to be really interesting now, and I think this is going to be important for anyone because what we do in terms of we've done the company, so I lead the architecture team, which is feeling a bit more lonely without you, Will.

Come back, Will. I've got, I've got films to watch, sorry. No, you've got training to do. Well, yeah, so what we do is architecture and we do, we have, we actually have a few jobs and I'll come to that in a little bit, but what I thought was good, and I'm really glad you brought this up, is the Future Trends Survey.

Now, it's important to remember that the Future Trends Survey, Was brought, [00:19:00] was done before the second lockdown was announced. So, we kind of need to bear that in mind. Because even though It's up to date as of

Will Ridgway: October, I think.

Stephen Drew: Yeah, even though it's still kind of good news. And it shows that architecture is coming around.

It's, we have to bear in mind that this month is going to cause a bit of a blip. I imagine. So, the, the findings will So it's returning a balance of plus nine. So in, so in this is kind of, can I zoom in on this? Oh, sweet. There we go. That's really cool. Hey, now we're looking really professional, aren't we?

Thanks Reba for this bit study. So you can see this is future workload index. Now my understanding and correct me if any, if, if if I'm wrong here, anywhere in the audience is that this is basically taken into account. Everyone, it's a survey that goes out to all the architectural practices and they talk about how confident they feel in the [00:20:00] market trends and we can kind of see in November it was decent, December and I can echo this because we were extremely busy, weren't we Will, in January, February.

And March, we still had some stuff and then this actually echoes what it felt like to work in architectural recruitment as well. It just all disappeared. April was tough, okay, for everyone and for you guys as well. And, and you can see that in May and June, it's crept up. July, that makes sense. And so now, everyone's feeling slightly more optimistic.

That makes sense. Now, what I predict is that November is going to go back down to this area. Well, and I think in December, it's going to probably be similar. And what I'm hoping and what I predict is that we're going to have this. kind of thing happen again next year. Let me know what your comments are.

Oh, as well, here we go. [00:21:00] Dr. Liz, really good point here. Remember that all architectural practices have time to complete the survey, so this might not be a true picture of the profession. Hmm, because it is in one sense a sample survey. So important to bear in mind. At the same time though, it is nice to see something and get, get a little bit of a trend.

Like you said, it's not written in gospel. Thank

Will Ridgway: you. I don't know what the sample size, I don't know what the sample size is, but the, I mean obviously it's good, it's a good, good indicator, but not necessarily something you should just take, you know, take on board, you know, it's important to.

Criticize it and find out where it's coming from.

Stephen Drew: This is it. I think this is a good statement from Dr. Liz Walder again, saying that in Wales are very busy. So I'm actually at Welsh as well. I think it's a good business case, isn't it? To open up a McDonald company Welsh office. Simon, if you're, if you're listening, I can do that.

It'd probably be just me, though, in the Welsh office right now, wouldn't it? Yeah. Probably. [00:22:00] Yeah. So we've got, and for anyone that doesn't know about this as well, so you can find this on architecture. com, which is Reba's domain. And you can go to the knowledge and resources section and you can check out the future trend surveys.

These come out every month, I believe. So yeah, every month, every month.

Will Ridgway: So that's pretty much it. We'll probably get an update at the end of November, beginning of December. And we'll see, we'll see how much the second lockdown has. had an impact on this current one. But I mean, after speaking, you know, after, you know, my experience in the market during the autumn period, I could sense it was rising and, you know, I'm expecting as well come the new year, we should also expect a similar rise as.

to what we saw last year. Maybe not quite the same, but it's definitely going to be rising in that same way, I think.

Stephen Drew: Yeah, I think you're right. It'll be interesting, isn't it? We'll, as you said, we'll, we'll follow the trends. So definitely check out the future trend survey if you haven't heard of it at all, and you [00:23:00] can kind of get an update, especially if you're like a A student is currently looking at the start.

It's good to kind of start getting familiar with the reports published by Reba because I truthfully when I was in practice, I, I didn't understand what they were. Okay, cool. All right. And we've got here as well. Oh, well, this is your point you were talking about in terms of. The government outlines his temporary plan.

Will Ridgway: Obviously, this covers like the, the entirety, it's not just specific to the construction and architecture industry, but it does also relate to the construction and architecture industry. I think they're planning on you know, it'll obviously impact the way homes and schools and hospitals are.

designed because I think they're planning on, you know, implementing new features in there. So that's obviously going to have an impact on the way things are designed in the future. I think this is all meant to be achieved by 2050. So we'll see. We'll see how that goes. You sound, don't sound that optimistic.[00:24:00]

Every, every every task to hit climate goals has never really been reached. It's all, everyone always lags a bit behind. So we'll, we'll, we'll see if they can, they can do this one. But it's obviously quite a large plan and how they implement it. is we'll be interested to see and how they you know, the costs and everything involved with it.

But it's a plan and we just got to see how, I mean, you know, we've already seen how architecture practices are already, you know, got sustainability in mind. They're thinking about these things. And so. you know, I'm not, I'm not, you know, a lot, a lot of practices are just going to follow suit really.

And hopefully it's not too much of a change to where practices were already trying to head towards really.

Stephen Drew: Yeah. I mean, a lot of the practices, especially that we've worked with, and I mean, sustainability is always a massive, massive part of it. Do you know, when I was a part one architectural assistant at EPR as I quite, as I mentioned to you a lot of times, yeah, I used to be.

I used to be a part one and a part two and a [00:25:00] part two and a part. Yep. Well, you know, then five years, two years, three years in industry, they all count, right? So one of the projects I did well was back then in 2009 was by a Texas entrepreneur and it was company called Evstat and they were all about electric car charging and there was so much political involvement with it.

It was really hard to move on. And now it's, it's funny because 10 years later. We're getting there, you know, I've seen your

Will Ridgway: work from

Stephen Drew: that actually.

Will Ridgway: I think you've shown me.

Stephen Drew: Yeah. Do you know the visualizations like that? Yeah. I've seen it. Should I see if I can find it on EPL's website really quickly? All right, guys, you want to see a claim to fame?

You want to see, let's see if we got, we can criticize it. No, don't criticize your work. Okay, so this visual was not by me. This was by the guy in our practice, but I did this one. We'll [00:26:00] check it out. Yeah. And so this is my other claim to fame is that I, I named the concept. Well, this building isn't built, but I named.

So the idea was you get in there, you charge your car. You have a coffee, you have a brew, and then you can shop. So I called it Stop and Shop. Yay! But then Stop and Shop was taken, so we had to call it Shop and Go. Shop and Go. So someone beat me to my idea. But yeah, so this was, this was in 2009. This is one of the projects I worked on at EPR Architects, and this sketch is by Jason Broads, who's one of the directors there.

Absolutely, I love Jason. He was a great mentor. Why I work in recruitment now is because I chose it. And Jason is a fantastic architect to work underneath. Few comments that have come in since then. All right, Jordan, we've got a live, we've got a live link. So I was going to see if I can [00:27:00] get this on the screen somehow.

Well, I don't know if I can copy links. I can only bring them up. So. Might not be able to do that Jordan, I'll have to work it out, but that would be really cool. Maybe what we can do well is that we can some people can submit news and we can bring it up as well. We've got some really good comments. Dr.

Les, I'm, I'm loving your comments. We need to get you on the show. Maybe you can be like a little guest news editor or commenter. That would be really cool, isn't it? That would be really, really fun. Then, well, all the pressure wouldn't be on us. That'd be nice, wouldn't it? Yay! But I think we're doing all right.

We've got through the news quite quickly. It's definitely worth checking out. Oh, it's definitely worth checking out what we were on before in terms of the outlines. Get your thoughts on that as well. Here we go. Jordan has put a comment in the series for this really interesting experiment between the UK and France relating to tidal energy of the project.

This is it's [00:28:00] named Tiger. And then we hear the tiger. Should we Google it now? Yeah, let's do it now. Let's do it live.

Will Ridgway: Let's do it live.

Stephen Drew: All right. Okay. We've got some pictures here. Laying up to the poorly organized name. Yeah, well, I tell you what, it was really dangerous putting Words in Google images, search, you know, that's really dangerous.

Yeah, I know. I'm really worried about being banned from LinkedIn all the time. So, okay. I think that was a nice little roundup of news. So next week we're going to do a bit more news as well. We, I think what we should do as well is, you know, the email address I put before we should, we maybe what I should do is I should set up a show email.

But for now you can email any ideas, so I'm typing this out as I go, any ideas or news to hello at architecturesocial. com and we will feature it. [00:29:00] So the plan is to go live every week, talk about things, generally relax as well. Everyone's on their lunch break, they're having a sandwich. Maybe we can be some friendly faces, Will.

Where people can have ideas as well. And we can have a talk. And also, I realized that we can get guests on here. You know, like the way I sent you the stream link, Will, to join here at the start? We can have guests. So if anyone would like to be a guest, as long as you don't swear and get me banned, I would love guests on there.

Although I do have a swearing button, look, Will. Just, just have that ready. Yeah, Will, what the? I was really swearing. But that's kind of cool, isn't it? But I'm with the delay, so I can, I still get banned anyways. All right, cool. Dr. Liz, you are very confident that you won't get banned yet. You haven't seen some of our past streams.

Actually, I think they've [00:30:00] been alright. I don't know, I get, I get nervous, Dr. Liz, for LinkedIn. I don't know. I don't, I've got to read the policies, but well, you're very good at finding the news. You need to on your, on your furlough, you know, watch some films, read LinkedIn's policies. No, I don't read

Will Ridgway: LinkedIn's

Stephen Drew: policies.

Yeah. Watch some film. Films are nice. Yeah. But if I get a few rows, well, I'm subbing you back in. I'm subbing you back in. So don't, don't, you know, watch a few films this week. Right. So, I think we've covered all the news, haven't we, Will? We have. Do you want to go talk about what you've been up to? All right, let me talk about what I've been up to.

Let me get rid of this. Let me get rid of this. Hey, we're back. There we go. And just so I know, look. Oh, here's me, Will. Yeah, yeah, I can hide in the background. No, I'll put you up. There you go. There's [00:31:00] Will. Everyone hasn't seen Will? That's Will. Hello, Will. Hello. I can have a nice break in there and go get a coffee.

This is brilliant. Okay, so what have I been up to this week? So, I have been up to a few things. Oh, I'm working. This is my lunch break, by the way, Simon. So again, Simon, listen, it's my lunch break. So we have, I've got, I've been working on a few jobs, a few architectural jobs. So we've been quite busy. So last week I was really busy with, and I'm just bringing this up, some interesting jobs that we were working on that are live.

Yay. Oh, there we go. We need a clap for the economy. Well, let's go. Yeah. Well done economy. So last week I was heavily focused on finding information managers for a client that I've worked with for a long period of time. And I've done a lot of work over the years in terms of [00:32:00] BIM and it was a real acid test to find out what an information manager actually is.

Well, you know, what they do. Cause it's all right saying you want an information manager, but it's like, what information that we manage in, what are the buildings, what are the processes? So currently, so in terms of some good news is that there are interviews this week happening for information managers.

They're a really cool company that I've worked with for a long period of time. They're very good employers and you can work remotely right now. They've got a lot of work in the pipeline because it's more of a software platform. along the lines of BIM. And so what you're actually dealing with is asset information management as well.

So I that, that was, that's been quite interesting. So interviews are starting to happen this week. Hey, we need to have, we need to have an information ballot wing and yeah, it's been an interesting one. So if anyone is. Passionate about information management, if you're quite BIM savvy, if you've [00:33:00] worked and you're familiar with COBE, you're familiar with CDEs, which I got called out on last week, and I've already forgotten what it stands for.

Commendator environment. Commendator environment. Yes, we did it. All right, there we go. What do you mean, I did it. I said it at the same time!

CD. So, that was the jobs I was working on last week. This week, the priority is, we've got two new roles. Two new roles. So, one is for a architectural technician. Our technologist, so someone that really understands how a building is built, someone that has done extensive brickwork, anyone that's done refurbishment on residential buildings, that's that's pretty cool.

It doesn't have to be residential, but any refurbishment is ideal, or passion for conservation is handy, and if you've worked on London projects or [00:34:00] UK projects, that's great. Some overseas work as well is cool, because this architectural practice has a combination of both, but they do a lot of really, really nice, how would you say, is it historic pieces?

It's, it's, there's, there's quite a nice variety of refurbishments, great to listed buildings across the UK. So if you're interested in that, do get in touch. The role. Does not require Revit. Woohoo. So if you do not know Revit, this is a role that could be really suitable for you. So I will put that down below.

So with that, you can contact me if you are interested or you are looking right now, you can contact me and I'll put my work email in the chat below and you can get in contact there. Oh dear. Well, I need to put one of these for next week. So here we go. This is the designing episode. We're working from it.

I'd love to [00:35:00] know what we do with this. If you guys have any other ideas of stuff to talk about the other last role I wanted to talk about today is a project architect role at the same company. So again, working on a combination of modern buildings, and also with a traditional twist kind of doing elegant solutions.

Beautiful, beautiful places to live, work, residential, conservation, a little bit of hospitality as well. You know, that kind of stuff is really, really key. Anyone that is a job right now, project lead on all REBA stages, and if you've used FactorWorks do get in touch. Wow. We've got a. A lot, a lot of comments here as well.

So, Simon, you were commenting. Okay Simon, I've got to, just because you're my boss as well, I've got to spread out the comments. Has our teacher employment market differed this time from the effects we experienced in the first national lockdown? Good [00:36:00] question. The short answer is yes, there are roles there.

I mean, the truth be told, it was a bit like the shutters came down overnight. on the first lockdown. I had loads of contractors and loads of people, unfortunately, got their contracts terminated. It felt completely different. That's my perception as well. Whereas in this role now, what I found is that there are definitely, definitely trends.

in the market would show that people are still hiring and that some of these projects have been going for a while. So they, we still, they still need people. And also I'm pretty sure we all feel the same that, you know, it's the second lockdown, but we've got to keep going now. It's like, we can't. just close things up or go away for a while.

We've got to be ready. We've got to keep going. So I found that I found that things are actually all right at the moment and we have rules here. Whereas in April, a little bit like that graph before. [00:37:00] There were not rolls around. It felt like the tumbleweeds, you know, I need to get a noise for it, but you know what I mean?

Well, it was tumbleweed was, I know everything just shut down

Will Ridgway: completely. Like all ev, like all existing roles, we had just went completely construction just stopped. Whereas now it's not like that. So no. People still getting things through planning permission. Which is brilliant. That's exactly what

Stephen Drew: the

Will Ridgway: industry needs.

Stephen Drew: And that's what I mean. So, and so if there are any employers out there right now you, we, I have a campaign that I would like to announce and the campaign is simply. called, and Will, you're going to love this, the campaign is hashtag bring Will Ridgway back from furlough. If you're working on an architectural job right now and you need, you need my expertise on, in specific, Will Ridgway, then do get in touch.

Will Ridgway has done two years of architectural recruitment. underneath my wing. [00:38:00] I absolutely love you on the team. We will get you back as well. But if you want to get, if you, so, well, if you want to get, we need to get Will up earlier in the morning, getting more, getting more going. Then hashtag bring Will Ridgeway back from furlough.

Let's do it guys. Will, we're a caring team. We're a family here at McDonnelly company. Yeah, and we need you back in the fall, but we've got to react to the market. And so before everyone was off on furlough and what I'll be doing as soon as this has ended, I will be working on these roles, but we can't bring Will Ridgeway back.

Well, did you ever think that we'd be doing this when we rehearsed this half

Will Ridgway: an hour ago? No, it's a bit of a lengthy hashtag as well, but yeah, thank you. Do you think we can get a trend in?

Stephen Drew: I don't know. We'll see. We'll work on it. We'll work on it. All right. We've got so many other comments as well. I mean I'm a bit, I'm a bit [00:39:00] amazed at how many comments we've got.

I've got to scroll up and down. Well, so there's some participants. Ray said, would you mind sharing some visualizations? We can work something around that as well. But I want to focus this about. News. If you're an architectural practice, if you have something on your website, then great. I will definitely review it and we will talk about it.

I do think it would be nice to have a little bit of good news and kind of the tone of this is that I want us to have a little laugh and a giggle. In a constructive way so we can all have a little giggle and we can bring will back from furlough. If someone puts this in Twitter, I swear I will honk the in half.

Honk the horn in happiness. There you go. Honk the on. So we have jobs on right at the moment. We, and we, I think it's showing that things in the right direction. Things are going in the right direction. Definitely, definitely better than before. Right. So let me think of a few [00:40:00] other things as well. So cool things happening on the architectural social.

So, all right, cool. So we've actually readjusted the book club formula at the moment. Well, now, yeah, I know you sound surprised cause I don't write many books. I've read a lot of books in my time, I've been, I'm too busy, I'm too busy right now trying to bring Will Richway back from furlough, hashtag. Okay, it's cool things in artificial social.

So we are so basically mate, we've got the book club, we're just in the formal, it's going to be more accessible. So we're going to do a book club session once a month, Will, and it's going to be a lot easier for people to jump in. And what I'm going to try and do is hopefully get a few authors on the platform as well.

So if anyone Has written the book, you want to be featured in the book club that can, that can be good as well. So I'm up for doing that. Now let's see what other comments we got here. Right. Many thanks. No worries. Send me an email with your stuff and we [00:41:00] can definitely. Definitely, look at it. So, other cool things on the Architectural Social, I think we're now 2, 500 members.

Wahey! Wow, that's amazing. I've got to get a new sound, well, I've only got this one and they're to scream about. I definitely prefer hearing one over the other. I know, and I've only got this one song. I need more songs. Remember the medieval song? So I've got to change that. I think it's quite relaxing.

Do you like it? I do, it's quite relaxing. It is quite relaxing. The old medieval section. Oh, oh! They got fixed it. So, okay, Cool Things in the Architecture Social 2, 500 members, we've got a new book coming you can post your work if you're a student and we reshare it across all the architecture mediums and if you want to be featured on here maybe what we can do is a spotlight special as well.

Other cool things on the Architectural Social, so you can check out [00:42:00] the Architectural Social website, so I'm going to send a link to that here as well. So you can join us. It's completely free. It's a completely free community. We've got lots and lots of resources for people who are struggling at the moment, looking for roles to keep up the motivation.

It's a really nice community. If you're feeling a bit down, you can kind of message on there. It's completely free. It's something that I set up during furlough, keep my brain going as well. Kind of keep my mind fresh and it's turned into a really fun community website where people can post their artwork.

They can do all this really, really cool stuff and podcasts. It's probably worth the podcast, isn't it? So we had a guest on there. We had David Drews. Oh, let me bring up the architectural social now. Will LinkedIn allow this? It's kind of all. It's not a full blown plug, is it? Well, but let's talk about it now.

So you can check out our, when the website loads, Hey, it loaded. Okay. It was like, Ooh, if it's too slow, that would not be good on the stream. Wouldn't it? [00:43:00] So what I've done recently, this, I did it on the weekend, just gone. I set up the show section so you can see this recording. If you want to watch it again.

I don't blame you. I wonder if anyone will watch it again. But if you wanted to look back at the other episodes, you can check out the show here. It will all be there. Well, and you can see the ones that we've done before. There you go. But more importantly, the talks are pretty cool. We've got some guests.

We had Pierre who has been initiative, Jason ball. as well, who's a great architect, nuclear architect, which is quite interesting, as well as a mentor, and David Drew, who I absolutely love. He's not related to me, sadly. I have his successful genes. That's why, that's why David is a design director. Well, I am head of architecture, but yeah, David, you're a better designer than me.

What a great, cool place to work out in London and you can listen to, you can check out on our website and you can listen to that podcast there. So really, [00:44:00] really, really cool stuff. And when I was saying that you can request, excuse me, request to join the Architecture Social, it's really simple. You click here.

Well, I am a member of the Architectural Socialists. So I signed straight in and you can see all the cool stuff that's posted. You can kind of get involved there as well. We have the event going live, which is this. We have chats, we have topics we have. You can talk about anything you want. Really. I do try to post job postings.

I'm going to post that job today that we talked about. Well, so definitely, definitely check it out. You can find this and anyone can sign up for free. On the architectural social. com. I absolutely love doing it as well. I'm going to probably not be on there as much until after six o'clock because I've got to do my job.

I wish I love, but they go both hand in hand, you know, the more and more I do my job, well, the more and more [00:45:00] roles I can post into the community and I just think it's great that we've built up these resources and, well, you're on half of these as well, which is aimed at helping students, helping all this stuff, so you can check out the resources section and you can see, for instance, our massive guide on How to find a job in architecture.

So check it all out. That's all free there. I've really enjoyed making that. Isn't it? Well, it's a lot of work that we've done here. You can see a few of our old ones as well. Back then. There's us talking up. Oh, oh, I've gone the wrong window. Look at that, oh, look how far we've come, Will. Yeah, I'm still wearing the same jumper though.

Will Ridgway: Oh no, I'm not, I'm wearing a different one. Never mind.

Stephen Drew: Of course you're wearing a different one. So check out that stuff. I thought that's a fair mention. And yes, it's something I'll work on. But I do, the point is for the Architecture Social is that it's a community for everyone to use. I always, I love using [00:46:00] the analogy that it's a stage.

But the stage needs performers and it's all about conversation and it's all about the people involved. If you've got any cool ideas, you can, you can do it. You can have a little look at it on the architectural social.com. Check that out as well. And while we are here, just in case anyone doesn't know me and will, we work for McDonald and company.com.

So McDonald and Company is arguably the number one. Real estate recruitment consultancy in the world. I think it's a fair statement We just opened an office in Texas. And so I run the architectural team I work with Will, I work with Stephen Glantz as well and We're kind of the architectural and design division.

You can check us out here. There's probably a shout out that I'd like to mention is to Nick Carmen, who has a good podcast, which is a little [00:47:00] bit more focused on the real estate property development, but you have some people who were architects. Okay, like Jan Crisban, I hope I said the same site right, who's technical director at Norfaker.

And as well as that, there's some really interesting podcasts about let me go show you now. So we have down here, I like this one. So John Beswick, who is founder of Adventure in Architecture, which is this really kind of cool architectural company. And They do lots and lots of quirky, cool events throughout the year.

And it'll be stuff like climbing Mount Everest. That is why John, unfortunately, I've never been to your things because I'm not the kind of guy yet to climb a Mount Everest, but that would be cool. Have you ever done anything like that? Well, not Mount Everest, no, or any mountains. No. Yeah. We're not there yet, but John, I have massive respect for what you've done.

I'll do that for next [00:48:00] week. Yeah. Oh, I've got some really cool podcasts to publish as well on that note. So we've got some really cool ones coming up. I did a podcast with the Berkeley group by Barclay group. Sorry. You have to say, I would say it wrong. I always get it the wrong way around to Berkeley group modular.

So I had a podcast with a rare name. Let me get rid of the McDonald and the company logo just for a quick second. So we've got that coming up Berkeley modular. So Rene basically is BIM leads and he does all interesting stuff with modular. If you are interested in exploring any sectors or anything like that, or you want to talk about your career, you can contact me at estrio at mcdonaldcompany.

com or check out mcdonaldcompany because we do work with a lot of people at property development and architecture. So it's just worth knowing. I will always try to get through to emails as well. And you can call me. So I think that's generally the kind of [00:49:00] news that I wanted to talk about this week. So maybe what we'll do now, Will, because we've got to stay close to the hour.

What we'll do so quickly now, we'll have a look at a few comments that have come in. And what I would love as well is for any suggestions. So this is the first show, the first Architectural Socialist show. I'm sure it's far from perfect, but I like kind of doing this. new stuff. I like experimenting. Now let's open it to suggestions.

So we have, we've established our first campaign. We'll retreat back from furlough. Well, yeah, we're going to bring you back from pillow. So, so we, we've established the campaign and we're going to, we can play around with the formula. So what I would love down the line is to get guests on. I'll get more structured.

Will, would be, will, will beat me into shape. You will make me the presenter. I know I can be. I I will do it and we will get there. But [00:50:00] actually I do want to keep it fun because we're all on the lunch break. We all need a little bit of a giggle. What I don't want this to be is 'cause Will, when I was in architecture, it used to have CPDs.

And some of them were so boring and some of them were really good. Some of them were so boring, but I used to go because I used to get a free sandwich. And what I don't want to do is have people switched off. It's the kind of thing you can jump in and out. You can have a friendly conversation. We can talk about things and you can interact with us as well.

So, That's the tone I want, but I'm up for, I think the news is pretty cool. Well, we're going to keep doing that. I'd love more, more videos that we can play in the background because I thought it was fun to talk about spot, any ideas you can get in touch with us as well. But I'm just going to go over a few of the comments that we had.

Well, cause it's just so many that I couldn't keep up with. So. Ruchi said, hello gentlemen. Very, very and she found this hilarious. That's good, that's, that's the vibe we're going for. We already went for that comment. Went for it earlier. [00:51:00] Oh, BM Initiative, oh sorry Will, I, on the spot, you get the pressure gets you sometimes, isn't it?

BM Initiative said, the interesting thing going on is the AU 2020. All right, and that's Autodesk University. So, and it's completely free. Oh, let's talk about that now. So that's completely free. It's probably definitely worth checking out because you can up your Autodesk game, you can or up your Revit game, I guess, and learn about probably a lot of product development, all the stuff they do.

That seems actually like a really good use of your time, especially if you're on furlough. Well, there you go. You could have a career in architecture now. Sign up to the Architecture University. Ray says, keep it up. Fantastic. Dr. Liz has been an absolutely great guest during this show, and I would love to get in contact and learn a bit more about your practice.

I've really enjoyed her comments. And there you go, Will. You've had [00:52:00] your homework sec. set by Dr Liz Walden. FRSA, awesome. That's the Royal Society of Arts, which I'm a member of as well. There you go. So let's see whatever comments, well, can you see them as well, or is it just me? I can, I can, I can see comments.

You've

Will Ridgway: got Paul Rushton. We all went for Where we went to CPDs for free sandwiches, so you're not alone, Steve. Yes,

Stephen Drew: Paul, you know exactly what I mean. You know, but then the problem is 10 minutes in, you feel the cost of them sandwiches. You're like, oh no. I've got to learn about triple glazing. Mate, you don't know.

I struggle with a few of them. Paul thinks this is an interesting concept. Paul, love you. If you've got any work or anything you want to share on the show, that would be great. Dr. Liz says, next topic, architectural fashion. Wow, okay. Yeah, well, my, well, half of my clothes don't fit at the moment because I ate too much [00:53:00] during lockdown.

That's my target. Too many CPDs, Steve. No, too much, like panicking at home about BBC News, I think while working. But it's true, I do, you've got to force yourself to get out at the moment, and I'm my own worst enemy like that, so that is definitely my thing that I need to do. Here we go. Surely we should be looking at designing Christmas e cards.

That is a nice suggestion. That could be a cool thing to do for the social. Yeah, that could be a cool competition. Oh, we do have a competition on the Architectural Social, which is completely free. And I'm going to be giving away book games as well. So book games, books, free books. So sign up to our competition.

It's actually a lot going on. So, oh, and next week I've got a special, Will, sorry, I'm gonna, don't worry, we're gonna keep it under the hour. The Architectural Benevolence Society, the charity I'm involved with, it's their birthday, hundred or seventy [00:54:00] fifth. Sorry, guys, I'm going to get a significant

Will Ridgway: gap between the two.

It's one or the other. They have a hundred or seventy five.

Stephen Drew: It's one or the other. And they're a great charity involved and they help a lot of people out during stressful times. And there's going to be And the website is going to be super, super cool. Now I'm not too sure whether the new website was confidential.

I hope not, but it's a good news piece anyways. Well, so I'll take short benevolent society or the ABS do check it out. I think for me, well, that's all the news. I've really enjoyed this. It's been a good little bit of fun. The will. We've got to end on one last thing. What? I'm worried. Okay, I forgot to put this in, so I'm doing it now.

Yeah, I can hear you typing it away. Will's weekly wits of wisdom. What, what what was We're going to end on a [00:55:00] note, okay? So, right, let's get it ready. So, Will, we've got to get it. Right, ready, so Weekly Words of Wisdom Weekly Words of

Will Ridgway: Wisdom Just, alright Just enjoy yourselves at the moment It's coming towards the year You know, we haven't had much, we haven't had a very good year In general, for most people anyway So let's just try and make sure that the last few couple of months are The best we can make it.

Amazing. That's really it. Nothing

Stephen Drew: architecture Goodbye until I think next week. It's Wednesday. See you later. Goodbye. Bye everyone. Hi. And bye. See you

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