9.00 Opening Remarks From Conference Chair

9.10 Applying World Best Practice Sustainable Features: A Dedicated Approach With Ingenuity And Commitment To Achieve The Best Possible Sustainable Outcomes

Australia’s greenest university building – the Bond University Mirvac School of Sustainable Development on the Gold Coast – has won the Sustainability in the Built Environment award at the 2009 EPA Sustainable Industries Awards.

• Highlighting sustainability aspects of the design and development: providing a benchmark in both quality of education and provision of sustainable teaching and learning environments
• Evaluating sustainable features and the cutting edge design
• Showcasing environmental benefits including an 82% reduction in operational carbon emissions and over 50% reduction in potable water use compared to a standard building
• Maximising daylight and minimising energy consumption of the building through an innovative design that maximises use of natural light and mixed ventilation
• Using recycled materials, including recycled timber, low-emission paints and carpets made from recycled fibres

George Earl
Head of School, Mirvac School of Sustainable Development
BOND UNIVERSITY

9.50 Analysing Melbourne Airport’s Reduction Strategy: A Practical Approach To A Smarter Airport

• Implementing a 5 year environmental strategy: analysing where we are now and where we want to be in 2015
• Analysing targets and ways of measuring success
• Getting a 5star rating or better on buildings: refurbishing older facilities and bringing standard up to a 5star operation
• Discussing strategies to reduce our carbon footprint: Mechanical plant, replacement water - harvesting recycled water and recycled building
• Overcoming hurdles: analysing drivers for business case – proving an ROI
• Planning ahead: looking at the impacts of your company and future business opportunities
• Discovering alternative energies: investigating cogeneration and trigeneration and what Melbourne Airport are leaning towards

Clint Walker
Asset Strategy and Planning Manager
MELBOURNE AIRPORT

11.00 Delivering A Commercially Driven Yet ESD Biased Building That Provids Real Benefits

Assembling business components both passive and active in a manner that enabled a leading edge outcome to be realised whilst using traditional materials and methods

• Establishing, monitoring, maintaining and reporting on base building and tenant energy consumption along ‘green lease’ guidelines: a 4.5 agbr target
• Introducing solar panels for domestic hot water
• Enabling processing of all waste water for re-use for toilet flushing thus reducing overall water consumption by 70%
• Utilising waste minimisation techniques during construction

Mark Newbegin
Precinct Manager
DIGITAL HARBOUR HOLDINGS

11.40 Implementing A State Of The Art Sustainable Building: Preparation For Now And The Future

WA property group Hawaiian recently refurbished its 15 floor boutique building located at 50 Pitt Street in the heart of Sydney’s business district. Refurbishment of the 10,000sqm C-Grade building upgraded the property to an A-Grade rating. The 30 year old building is an octagon shape with seven of its eight sides exposed to natural light and this unique feature was taken into account as part of Hawaiian’s key objective to upgrade the building with a sustainability focus. The property was the first existing commercial building in New South Wales to achieve a Four Star Green Star Office Design rating. Sustainable features now offered to tenants include an energy efficient building with quality lighting, reduced use of volatile organic compounds in all office finishes, bicycle parking and cyclist facilities. Key initiatives include:

• Replacement of perimeter Induction air-conditioning units with chilled beam technology
• Installation of an electronically controlled T5 lighting system designed to maximizing energy efficiency
• Monitoring of carbon dioxide levels to maximise indoor air quality for occupants
• Providing an LCD tenant bulletin board capable of interfacing with the Building Management System
• Maximising the natural light attributes of the building
• Elimination of Ozone Depleting Insulants & use of low Volatile Organic Compounds
• Incorporation of Water rationalization systems

Neal Barry
Manager, Facilities Management
HAWAIIAN

12.00 PANEL DISCUSSION: Effective Strategies To Minimise Waste And Increase Efficiency

• Utilising waste minimisation techniques within an existing building
• Dedicated recycling waste storage area: providing opportunities for tenants and employees to be environmentally aware
• Reducing waste, emissions, water, electricity and gas: best practice environmental achievements
• Enabling processing of all waste water for re-use; reducing overall water consumption

Panellists Include

2.00 Achieving A 6 Star Outcome At A Competitive Cost: Implementing Cutting Edge Facilities Management Techniques To Maintain A 6 Star Operation

The Gauge is officially the country’s greenest building, after it became the first building in Australia to receive a 6 Star Green Star - Office As Built Certified Rating, from the Green Building Council of Australia. The Gauge is rated for its design and clear demonstration that leading sustainable technology and commercial viability can go hand in hand. The Gauge makes the business case for green buildings. And it sets a new global benchmark for green building project and every component of The Gauge has been reconsidered and researched, not only in how it performs independently but how the system interacts as a whole. This session takes a look at how it continues to shine and why it’s not only sustainable now, but well into the future.

• Setting new sustainable milestones in the Australian property market
• Refining the engineering processes, systems and materials and integrating and streamlining the techniques from beginning to end
• Continuing a high standard of sustainable building practices
• Recycling 92% of water per year through a a black water treatment plant
• Providing base building electricity through cogeneration and utilising waste heat for pre-heating air supply in winter months and domestic hot water

Jon Collinge
Consultant – Sustainable Design
LEND LEASE

3.10 Looking Ahead At Future Energy Policies And Their Expected Impact On Your Energy Efficiency Strategies

Good government policies can help companies to drive energy efficiency in their own facilities. This session will examine the overarching climate change policy framework and the energy policies that have been recently introduced, and may be introduced in the future.

Rob Murray-Leach
Chief Executive Officer
ENERGY EFFICIENCY COUNCIL

3.50 Promoting Sustainability & Efficiency In An Existing Environment

• Analysing strategies for existing buildings to improve asset quality and value
• Implementing maintenance scheduling for the whole life of a facility and
• Controlling information, services, procurement and benchmarking performance
• Overcoming obstacles to ensure asset strategies are successfully implemented

Sean Condon
Sustainability Manager
INVESTA PROPERTY GROUP

4.30 Closing Remarks From Conference Chair

4.40 Close Of Conference Day One