{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5f6db0ab2dc2346e2dd1a808/675ad34d70e1cc4f5c4f802c?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"E222 That Great Business Show - Great service can get you into Great Britain, Noel Rowland - Sustainability reporting made easy, James McConville","description":"<p><strong>Episode 222. That Great Business Show. </strong></p><p><strong>UCD Smurfit 'Business Podcast of the Year'</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Cheesy, yet true. </p><p>That’s what <strong>Noel Rowland&nbsp;Founder &amp; Managing Director, </strong>wrote<strong> </strong>on the company website, ‘When we founded Churchfield, we wanted to create a company and service that our parents, friends and local community could be proud of.’ Churchfield is a full-service energy retrofitting business based in Crossmolina, employing almost 100 people. And they have big plans to conquer the UK from Mayo, though he may start with Belgium.  Did you know that unoccupied homes, brought back into use, aren't counted in official figures?? And he has a partial solution for the pyrite affected houses.</p><p>You'll also learn how to save a fortune on your heating bills.</p><p>His 'hire in a heartbeat'?  Michael O'Leary</p><p><br></p><p>Solving the housing crisis.</p><p>When <strong>James McConville, Director of ACT, Architects and Urbanists</strong>, he - naturally - wanted to tell us about something very important that's going to affect every business, big or small. Every company will eventually have to have a sustainability report.  To that end James &amp; Co have developed a tool to help companies to prepare for that sustainability reporting – part of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive – a report that will become mandatory in the very near future. A top young and highly creative architect, we also took the opportunity to ask him a simple [not] question. How do you solve a massive housing shortage. </p><p>His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Gráinne Mullins, founder Grá Chocolates</p><p>With thanks to De Facto Shaving Oil.</p>","author_name":"Conall Ó'Móráin"}