in november 2009, pidcock was awarded a byera hadley travelling scholarship to investigate "the architecture of zero emissions housing" to investigate how this might impact the technical and design approaches of the practice. extending the ideas of this research led her to the living building challenge where she joined the board, and in 2013 established and chaired the living futures institute australia (lfia). as a result of her contribution, pidcock was recognised as a "living building hero" by the international living future institute in 2014.