NABERSNZ: How to prepare a good assessment

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.

Dennis has worked in sustainability in the built environment for over 15 years, with experience ranging from wastewater treatment plants to writing carbon neutral standards. Dennis spent 6 years as the head of technical standards at NABERS, where worked to both improve the quality of existing rating tools and on the development of new rating tools. Dennis uses all this experience to conduct Level 2 audits for NABERSNZ. Dennis currently works as a sustainability engineer at Mirvac optimising and improving energy and water efficiency on the ground.