Green Speak Waikato and Rototuna School tour

NZGBC Waikato Forum hosted the third in this year's Green Speak Waikato event series to coincide with World Green Building Week 2017.

Inspirational talks and networking followed directly from a tour of the school.

Rototuna School - building tour

To celebrate World Green Building Week 2017, Rototuna School kindly opened its doors to the public. Enabling us to see this newly completed educational facility first hand. Targeting Green Star certification, this building has been designed with many systems that reduce its overall environmental impact

The Rototuna School project - building to Green Star

Amanda Bryan, Sustainability Leader, Aurecon

Jacqui Hudson, former Project Coordinator, Arrow International

As key project leaders in the construction of Rototuna School, Amanda presented the consultant's perspective and Jacqui described the project from the builder's perspective. They looked at how the project is impacted by targeting Green Star and the environmental benefits of the systems installed to the school. View slides here

New tools revolutionising existing buildings & homes

Andrew Eagles, CEO of New Zealand Green Building Council

New buildings & homes are changing in New Zealand. Homestar has 10,000 homes confirmed. But what about our current building stock? New tools are now available to evaluate the performance and health of existing homes and buildings. Green Star Performance, provides investors better visibility of asset performance. And in homes, HomeFit provides an assessment of the health and comfort of existing homes. Andrew explained why the market is so excited about these tools. View slides here

Open forum

Ian Matthew, Holmes Group

Ian looked back on how NZGBC Waikato Forum delivered on its aims this year and facilitated discussion on what participants enjoyed most and what they would like to see in 2018. View slides here

New Zealand Green Building Council is very grateful to the NZGBC Waikato Forum organising team, for their dedication to this venture.

Free for NZGBC student members.

CPD Points available:

NZRAB: 20 points

ADNZ: 2 points

NZGBC Waikato Forum partner

Event series sponsors

#WGBW2017 National Sponsor