COP26 and the Cities, Regions and Built Environment Day, on the 11 November, marks an exciting move within sustainability and a focus upon the role our industry plays. In recognition of the significance of this event, the GBCA is excited to host a series of two webinars, in which we hope to the share insights and learnings about what COP26 can mean for our region. We are thrilled to welcome our esteemed panels to these sessions.
Join our thought leaders at this critical time for our industry. Our second webinar will share learnings and discussions from COP26 itself. We will explore what this means for our industry, the policy landscape and how we unpack the implications.
Panelists:
- Tanya Cox, Chair of the World Green Building Council and a Director of the GBCA
- Ken Morrison, Chief Executive, Property Council of Australia
- Davina Rooney, CEO, Green Building Council Australia
Our first webinar will set the scene for what we hope to see at COP26 and the potential to accelerate our climate positive future. We will examine the role and importance of the built environment and what needs to change. We will also share our latest report “Closing the performance gap in Australia’s commercial office sector’’ and discuss how this can enable us to take high level ambitions and draw these down into practical change now.
Panelists:
- Cristina Gamboa, CEO, World Green Building Council
- Davina Rooney, CEO, Green Building Council Australia
- Michael Li, Senior Project Manager (Cities), Climate Works Australia
- Helen Bell, Research Director, Green Building Council Australia
- Carlos Flores, Director, NABERS
The WELL Building Standard global rating system for healthy buildings has exploded in Australia in the last four years, with about 10 per cent of the total occupied office footprint now registered or certified. With WELL v2, the program has also expanded to include modules on diversity, inclusion, affordable house and gender equity. And in locations far beyond traditional offices, now including hospitals, universities, retail and residential. But what do recent WELL projects show us?
Join WELL Accredited Professional and WELL Faculty, Jessica Bennett, as she takes us through some of the most inspirational projects and examines what lessons can be learnt from recent case studies.
From One Malop Street, Geelong, to 25 King Street, Brisbane and SMU Connexion, Singapore, Jessica shares key outcomes of using the WELL tool, and what you can learn for your own projects.
Key topics include:
- Air Quality
- Tips for successful Performance Verification V1, V2 and Crosswalks
- People are key to success – how do we bring the end user on the journey?
- Beauty, biophilia and the Mind & Community categories
Lot Fourteen, situated at the old Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) site in South Australia, is being transformed into a global innovation neighbourhood of entrepreneurship, research collaboration and cultural activity. With existing heritage listed buildings, new centres of excellence including the Entrepreneur and Innovation Centre and Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre, and a raft of community facilities, Lot Fourteen is bringing together people from everywhere to share ideas and experiences.
In this webinar, Jacob Potter from dsquared Consulting discusses how sustainability has been integrated into the Lot Fourteen neighbourhood using Green Star and how in turn, Lot Fourteen has been driving innovative solutions within the Green Star tools and creating new pathways for projects to realise their sustainability aims.
Key topics include:
- Key solutions and lessons learnt for the adaptive reuse of heritage buildings.
- Innovative solutions for precinct wide systems including shared thermal plant and recycled water.
- Using life cycle analyses to demonstrate emission reduction benefits.
- Integrating sustainable transport with car free streets, end of trip facilities and increased connectivity to the surrounding public transport network and bicycle ways.
- How resources and waste management have been integrated and facilities shared across the precinct.
- How both the neighbourhood and buildings have been designed for health and well-being.
- Key project highlights and initiatives.
To incorporate and embed sustainability, aged care organisations need to take a long-term view towards managing their environmental and social risks as well as impacts. The foundation in supporting the business case for sustainability in aged care can be categorised into two areas: operational efficiencies and enhanced brand reputation.
Having a robust sustainability vision, policy, strategy and action plan can significantly reduce operating costs, eliminate waste, create energy efficiency, further engage employees, strengthen a company’s brand value and potentially open up new opportunities.
In this webinar, we will explore the process of building sustainability from the ground up and ‘painting on a blank piece of canvas’. The mandate to get it right from the start is critical to the longevity of the sustainability movement. Hence, this presentation also details the business case on kick-starting a program that is almost ‘unchartered territory’ for the business and its stakeholders.
Key areas to be covered:
- The importance of forward thinking, believing in the change and leading by example
- Prioritising what you want to achieve; you can’t do everything!
- Communicating the why and the what even when you don’t know the how
- Regis’ sustainability outcomes
Join Dr Kaushik Sridhar, National Sustainability Manager, Regis Healthcare, to learn how to make sustainable change stick.
Barrack Place, 151 Clarence Street is Sydney CBD’s newest A Grade commercial development.
Arup was the multi-disciplinary base building engineer and anchor tenant for Barrack Place creating a unique opportunity to integrate Arup’s own aspirations for their new home as well as delivering a next generation, sustainable, commercial office building for the client, Investa.
Barrack Place was awarded Australia’s first ever WELL Core & Shell Precertification at the Gold level by the International WELL Building Institute, and both the base build and Arup’s fit-out achieved 6 Star Green Star Ratings.
Join Andrew Pettifer (Arup NSW Region Leader & NSW Buildings Group Leader) and Alex Rosenthal (Arup Associate Architectural Engineer) as they share their story of the development and achieving exceptional wellness and sustainability ratings.
The Sunshine Coast University Hospital (SCUH) is the largest public healthcare facility in Australia to earn a 6 star Green Star Healthcare v1 Design and As-Built ratings.
Jeremy Mansfield will share the story of the project team who achieved successful airtight results during the design, construction and delivery of the Sunshine Coast University Hospital.
The presentation will take you through the project requirements, the methodology applied during the different phases of the project and the test results achieved.
Join this webinar to learn about their fantastic project development and air tightness achievements.