Speakers
Thank you to our keynote speakers.
Adrian Leaman
Adrian has been managing director of Building Use Studies (BUS) since 1987. He specialises in the management and application of feedback from building occupants about their needs and requirements. He is also the secretary of the Usable Buildings Trust, which puts independent results from building performance studies into the public domain. Since 2008 Adrian has been part of Arup's Building Performance and Systems Group.
In the 1980s Adrian carried out pioneering and influential research work on occupant health in buildings ('sick buildings'). More recently he carried out the occupancy surveys for the internationally-acknowledged Probe studies of building performance, to which two special issues of the Building Research and Information journal are devoted.
Has collaborated with Bill Bordass on many projects in the UK. Their real-world and total building approach to problem solving uses strategic thinking about the future based on careful analysis of current performance and trends. Their respective databases on energy, user, health and occupancy issues are extensive, and have provided the models for many similar studies.
From 1993-97 he was at the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies, University of York, combining this with his role at BUS. In 1998 he was Visiting Professor at the Department of Real Estate and Project Management at the University of Delft, Netherlands. In 2002 he was Visiting Fellow at the School of Architecture and Design, Victoria University of Wellington.
Adrian is also involved in the Building Energy Enduse Study (BEES), which is a New Zealand project looking at Energy use in Commercial buildings.
Adrian Leaman Recording
Nils Larsson
Nils Larsson is synonymous with the SB conference series and is again playing a leading role in SB10 and SB11. Nils is Executive Director of the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE), an international non-profit organization. An architect who focuses on R&D in buildings, he developed and managed a demonstration program for high-performance buildings in Canada. He is the main developer of the SBTool assessment method and is the main organizer of the Sustainable Building Challenge (SBC), a unique feature of the SB-series of world conferences. Nils is now based in Paris.
Vivian Loftness
Vivian Loftness is an internationally renowned researcher, author and educator with over thirty years of focus on environmental design and sustainability, advanced building systems and systems integration, climate and regionalism in architecture, as well as design for performance in the workplace of the future. From 1994-2004, she was Head of the School of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University where she is currently a Professor.
Supported by a university-building industry partnership, the Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium, she is a key contributor to the development of the Intelligent Workplace – a living laboratory of commercial building innovations for performance, along with authoring a range of publications on international advances in the workplace.
She has served on seven National Academy of Science panels as well as being a member of the Academy's Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, and given three Congressional testimonies on sustainable design. Her work has influenced both national policy and building projects, including the Adaptable Workplace Lab at the U.S. General Services Administration and the Laboratory for Cognition at Electricity de France.
As a result of her research, teaching and professional consulting, Vivian Loftness received the 2002 National Educator Honor Award from the American Institute of Architecture Students and a 2003 Sacred Tree Award from the US Green Building Council. Vivian Loftness has a Bachelors of Science and a Masters of Architecture from MIT, and is on the National Boards of the USGBC and TSAC, AIA Communities by Design, Turner Sustainability, and the Global Assurance Group of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and is a registered architect.
Professor Brenda and Robert Vale
Brenda and Robert Vale are professorial research fellows at the School of Architecture, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Their 1975 book The Autonomous House is widely recognized as a basic text in the field of green building. Through the 1980s the Vales designed a number of very low energy commercial buildings and social housing schemes in England. In the 1990s they wrote Green Architecture, completed the first autonomous house in the UK and received the UN's Global 500 award. They also designed the award winning zero-emission Hockerton Housing Project. They later developed the National Australian Built Environment Rating System (NABERS) which has since been commercialised. The Vales' latest book Time to eat the dog? deals with the realities of sustainable living, and will be published by Thames and Hudson in June 2009.
Nick Collins
Nick Collins has been General Manager of Beacon Pathway since October 2004, and has spent the last two decades in the building and construction sector. Beacon Pathway is a research consortium that's working to find affordable, attractive ways to make New Zealand homes more sustainable. Its vision is: Creating homes and neighbourhoods that work well into the future and don't cost the Earth.
His work experience spans a variety of challenging leadership, marketing/sales, entrepreneurial and management roles across several industries. Nick started off as a geographer, completing an MA (Hons) at Canterbury University, initially with the intention of an academic / teaching career. While research ing his MA thesis, he was tempted by the commercial world and did not look back, working in a range of organisations varying in size from a US based Fortune 200 company, large New Zealand corporates, and four years with his own company. In the mid 1990's he returned to the University of Auckland to complete an MBA to further develop his financial / commercial skills.
Pieter Burghout
Pieter Burghout is the Chief Executive of BRANZ, and is also currently the Chair of the Construction Industry Council.
His previous roles included being Chief Executive of the Registered Master Builders' Federation (RMBF), and the Building and Construction Industry Training Organisation (BCITO).
He has a law degree, an MBA, and is also a qualified builder. Pieter has worked in advisory and leadership roles in Government and industry associations.
As well as its own research programme work, BRANZ is involved in a number of broader industry initiatives, including Beacon Pathway Ltd, the Structural Timber Innovation Company (STIC) and the development of the Single Rating Tool. BRANZ also has an ownership interest in Masterspec.
Craig Pocock
Craig has lived and worked extensively in design and project management in New Zealand, Jordan, Palestine, India and the United States. He has fourteen years of professional practice as a landscape architect. Much of Craig's design work focuses on applying the collective knowledge of traditional sustainable practices from the Middle East, Central Asia as well as contemporary sustainable North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Craig has been involved in a number of critiques and lectures at Philadelphia University and Yale University Schools of Architecture on the subjects of cross cultural design and sustainability. Craig has been the examiner for the "sustainable landscape design" paper at Lincoln University for four years. Craig has also worked with the NZILA to write the guides lines to landscape sustainability for the NZILA design awards and associated articles. He has also recently been published internationally on the subject of "Managing the Carbon Impact of Landscape Design and on Climate Change management strategies for IFLA".
Garry Pellett
Garry is Head of Properties at BNZ. He has been involved in the Corporate Real Estate area for 30 years in a variety of roles covering the traditional property management disciplines of facilities, lease and project management. Over time Garry has participated in a number of strategic and tactical projects including the 1984 fitout of 1 Willis Street, Wellington (State Insurance Tower) and construction of many new premises from Queenstown to Whangarei prior to the sell down of the BNZ's portfolio of branches.
Having been involved in the Industry for such a long period of time,(at least three property cycles!), Garry has seen the development of the outsourcing of both property and facilities management and the resultant focus on customer relationship management. His team of 6 at BNZ is responsible for the delivery of all business occupancy responses and the management of both P & L and Capital expenditure.
He is one of the two project owners of BNZ's corporate and support businesses who have relocated staff into three new buildings located in Auckland and Wellington during 2008 and 2009. These three buildings have been designed and built to achieve NZGBC 5 star green star design and interior ratings.
Garry strongly supports the concept of Properties being a significant contributor to business enablement by facilitating the convergence of space, people, culture, technology and sustainability.
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Dorothy Wilson
Recognised in New Zealand as a strong advocate for living and working sustainably, Dorothy Wilson spent 12 years as a Councillor on Waitakere City Council, the last six as Deputy Mayor, co-leading the introduction of its Eco City direction. After stepping down from politics she has continued actively promoting practical ways that communities, business and government can reduce their footprint while retaining their quality of life. An international and national speaker on sustainability, she brings a wealth of experience in wise resource management, optimizing resilience and how to make short term decisions, recognizing the need to think holistically and take long term effects into account. Ten years ago she substantially retrofitted of her own house to demonstrate what steps people can take to help prepare for the uncertainties of climate change and peak oil.
Nigel Isaacs
Nigel Isaacs is currently working at the School of Architecture as a Teaching and Research fellow, while working as the Principal Scientist Energy & Environment BRANZ Ltd, since 1996. Nigel has a extensive background in building research.
Nigel is one of the science leaders for the Building Energy End-use Study (BEES) which will over six years explore energy and water use in non-domestic buildings. BEES is a multi-year study supported by FRST, the Department of Building and Housing, Building Research and EECA.
He was the science leader for the now completed Household Energy End-use Project (HEEP) which monitored all fuels (electricity, natural gas, LPG, wood, coal, oil, etc) and energy services (room temperatures, hot water, appliances, etc) in 400 randomly selected houses throughout New Zealand – large and small cities, urban and rural, North and South Islands from Kaikohe to Invercargill.
Maurice Williamson
Maurice Williamson is the Minister for Building and Construction in the National-led Government.
Mr Williamson's Parliamentary career began in 1987 when he was elected MP for the Auckland electorate of Pakuranga, which he has continued to represent since then. He was Minister of Transport during the last National Government and has also held Ministerial portfolios of Communications, Broadcasting, Information Technology, Local Government, and Associate Minister of Education, Health and State Services.
Mr Williamson was a physics teacher at Mt Albert Grammar school and a planning analyst at Air New Zealand before entering Parliament.
He is a member of the Pakuranga Rotary Club and a member of the International Federation of Operations Research Societies (IFORS).
He was Auckland Toastmasters Club Communicator of the Year in 1993 and appointed a Fellow of the NZ Computer Society in 1995.