Air tightness masterclass

24 Jun 2025

Agenda

Tuesday, 24th June 2025 — Agenda

 

12:30 pm

Welcome and introduction

12:30 pm – 12:32 pm

Moderator: Jim Ng, Technical Services and Innovation Lead, Green Building Council of Australia

12:32 pm

Examining the minimum expectations for air tightness requirements in Green Star Buildings

12:32 pm – 12:50 pm

Speaker: Jim Ng, Technical Services & Initiatives Lead, Green Building Council of Australia

12:50 pm

Blueprint for Success with Airtightness: Documentation and design reviews that do something useful

12:50 pm – 1:30 pm

This session will take you through the steps to navigate the submission documentation process and draw on project examples with measurable results. Hear more about commissioning testing and how to review any oversights in the process.

Speaker: Sean Maxwell, Scheme Manager, ATTMA Australia and New Zealand

01:30 pm

Q & A

1:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Q & A with Sean Maxwell, Scheme Manager, ATTMA Australia and New Zealand & Jim Ng, Technical Services & Initiatives Lead, Green Building Council of Australia

01:45 pm

Discussion groups

1:45 pm – 2:00 pm

In smaller groups, participants will discuss some of the common challenges experienced and how these have been overcome.
Questions to be asked include:
• What are some of the targets you have used?
• What can we learn from regional differences and experiences?

02:00 pm

Feedback from discussion groups

2:00 pm – 2:10 pm

02:10 pm

BREAK

2:10 pm – 2:20 pm

02:20 pm

High Performance testing, high performance buildings

2:20 pm – 2:45 pm

Learn more about high performance testing and compliance.

Speaker: Denise Martin, Director, Building Envelope Optimisation

02:45 pm

Air Tightness Performance – Understanding the spectrum

2:45 pm – 3:10 pm

How do we design air tightness for the best possible performance? Hear more about overcoming challenges and learning from best practice.

03:10 pm

Building Airtightness: Bridging the gap between design and delivery

3:10 pm – 3:40 pm

Learn how the 80/20 rule applies to building airtightness and why airtightness often fails in practice. Hear how bridging the gap between design intentions and onsite execution is critical to delivering sustainable buildings.

Speaker: Andrew Champness, Director, Aerotight

03:40 pm

Break

3:40 pm – 3:50 pm

03:50 pm

In Conversation Case Study: Eastco Airtightness test

3:50 pm – 4:20 pm

Speaker: John Konstantakopoulos, Managing Director, Efficiency Matrix will moderate a discussion on East with Daniel Prince, Director, Specialised PM

04:20 pm

Closing comments

4:20 pm – 4:30 pm