The Time Thief
The Broken Promise of Our Buildings and the Fight for the Air We Breathe
The Broken Promise of Our Buildings and the Fight for the Air We Breathe.
We build structures to protect us from the elements and keep predators out, but somewhere along the way, we broke the bargain. In our obsession with energy efficiency, cost and speed, we forgot the mammal inside the box.
The Time Thief calls out the "not my job, mate" culture of the construction industry, the gaslighting of tenants blamed for black mould, and the dangerous pursuit of targets that ignore human lungs. Drawing on over 100 conversations with the world’s leading building scientists, engineers, and medical professionals, this book translates complex physics into plain English.
This is an implementation problem, not a science problem. I am not an academic researcher; I am the "General Practitioner" of the built environment.
Through the Air Quality Matters podcast, I have spent two years and nearly two million spoken words interviewing over 100 of the world's leading scientists, engineers, and doctors to synthesise their brilliance into plain English.
The Time Thief is a manifesto that calls out the "not my job, mate" culture of the construction industry, the "gaslighting" of tenants blamed for black mould, and the dangerous pursuit of net-zero carbon targets that ignore the lungs of the people inside.
It is time to lock the door on the Time Thief and recognise that clean indoor air is not a premium corporate luxury, but a fundamental human right.