Sustainability: A Driver for Value

Bobby Shen is our Business Development Manager for existing buildings, looking after the Green Star Performance, NABERSNZ and CarboNZero tools. He is a Green Star Accredited Professional since 2015 and brings his experience in architectural design (commercial/industrial) and improving existing buildings. He likes to think of sustainability holistically, from passive design principles to buildings being intuitive for users; identifying ways to design sustainability into buildings, new or old.

He is a strong advocate for climate action and healthy built environments. He is very involved in the community he grew up in at Mt Roskill and is an assessor for the new Sustainable Real Estate online course for the University of Cambridge UK, where he did a sustainability course last year. He holds a Master of Architecture (Professional) Hons from the University of Auckland, where his thesis explored culture, community, and connections.

In his spare time, he likes to explore Tāmaki Makaurau’s cycle network on his trusty ebike or pull out weeds at the local stream restoration group in Lynfield, which he finds cathartic.

Insa is the Sector Decarbonisation Programme Manager at EECA (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority) a government agency which supports mobilising New Zealanders to be world leaders in clean and clever energy use. This role within EECA aims at driving transformation change at a sectorial level within decarbonisation by providing guidance and analysis on energy behaviour, jointly with innovation and technology changes. Insa’s career has seen her both in the public and private sectors leading change management within the energy, carbon and sustainability space. Insa holds a Chemical and Biomolecular BE (Hons) from Sydney University with a strong passion for humanitarian engineering and bioenergy.

Mark is co-founder and director of FM Concepts Ltd, dedicated to improving commercial building management services and operational effectiveness within the built environment. With over 24 years' experience, Mark specialises in managing long-term technical and strategic maintenance planning as well as sustainability programmes.

FM Concepts Ltd has had a long-term association with New Zealand’s largest listed.