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Green Building Summit Workshops

29 October 2009

The day following the Green Building Summit continued with more in depth, stimulating sessions on a range of topics addressing the latest in green building strategies, practices and research happening today and into the future.

Read on about the topics below and download the presentations.

Influencing green building practices in the urban environment

Around the world, there has been a successful uptake of green building practices. There is now also an increasing demand for a benchmarking framework for sustainable communities.

This session looked at:

  • Re thinking Planning for Green Cities
  • Overseas initiatives from Councils that incentivise green building uptake
  • Rating tools for Green Precincts

Green Office Interiors

Sustainable fit-outs can make a large environmental impact due to their application to both new and existing buildings. They provide the opportunity to improve the sustainability of the built environment from the inside out and to overcome the barrier of how to upgrade the majority of existing buildings with life-spans of 50 years or more in a relatively short period.

This session looked at the value of greening office interiors from different perspectives.

Green Office Interiors

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Smart thinking on Energy

Buildings have an enormous potential to reduce the gap provided NZ invest in a 'smart grid'. There is a huge challenge to designers to reduce energy consumption and peak electric loads due to air-conditioning as climate change kicks-in.

This session looked at innovative practices and research projects happening locally and overseas.

Smart Thinking on Energy

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Strategies for greening Existing Buildings

Upgrading existing buildings to meet lower carbon emission performance targets presents a huge opportunity for building owners, designers and contractors.

This session looked at:

  • Challenges and opportunities associated with greening existing buildings
  • Landlord's Motivation for Retrogreening
  • Green star Performance Tool Proposal

Greening Existing Buildings

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Green Star NZ - Good Submission Guide

Putting together a GS Submission is no mean feat.

This session brought together Independent Assessors, GSNZAPs and NZGBC Certification Manager to provide helpful tips and guidelines on how to put together a Green Star submission for your client.

Good Submissions

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Green Buildings in Education

Green Education Buildings are reported to be:

  • "Positive for students' health and education performance
  • Effective means of teaching students' about sustainability AND
  • Acquiring responsible environmental attitudes."

This session looked opportunities for linking Curriculum, Sustainability and Building.

Green Education Buildings

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Waste Minimisation Best Practice

Construction and Demolition waste represents up to 50 percent of all waste generated in New Zealand.

This session looked at current leading industry waste minimisation practices at the design, specification and construction phases.

Waste Minimisation Best Practice

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Energy Modelling and the Iterative Design Process

The iterative design process to achieve the most efficient green design outcome could be considered best practice.

This session looked at how this design process has taken on new dimensions for the whole design team allowing much greater refinement of building design and associated costs due to the availability of powerful modeling software.

Green Products and Materials

The movement towards green building practices represents an exciting new opportunity for product manufacturers and specifiers to develop, market and specify green products.

This session looked at recent industry work on third party certification recognition as well as a manufacturer's experience of getting a product certified.

Green Products and Materials

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Green Building Summit 2009 Workshops