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Innovation and Transformation

The New Zealand Sustainable Building Conference – (SB10 NZ) bought together a wide range of industry stake holders to focus on the issue of sustainable building in the New Zealand environment. Following on from the successful SB07 held in Auckland 2007, the conference gathered local and international speakers to share their knowledge and insights on innovative, high performance and low impact approaches to developing, maintaining and retrofitting the built environment for sustainability.

Spanning policy, planning and design, through to construction, maintenance, refurbishment, reuse or deconstruction. The focus of the conference was the future of New Zealand's built environment and how to manage transform the building sector.

SB10 is one of a number of regional conferences being held across the globe in the lead up to SB11 in Helsinki. SB10 is held under the auspices of International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB), the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE) and the Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE) of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)