Maíra André, PhD
Research Associate, Indoor Environmental Quality Lab The University of Sydney
DAY 3 | Tools for passive design | Tuesday 13 August 2024
Maíra integrated the Indoor Environment Quality lab last year to conduct a study on comfort and productivity in working-from-home settings in Sydney. Her interests focus on thermal comfort and building performance. She has worked as a Consultant for Building Performance analysis, certification, and informative studies for Building Energy Regulation. Maíra holds a PhD in Civil Engineering and a Bachelor of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Ashley Bateson
Director & Head of Sustainability
Hoare Lea
DAY 5 | Importance of culture; briefing tools & soft skills | Tuesday 27 August 2024
Ashley is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Environmentalist with over 20 years’ experience, working in both UK and Sweden with international experience. He is a past Vice President of CIBSE and has been active in several CIBSE Groups including the HVAC Systems Group, Sustainability Group and Homes for the Future. Ashley chairs the Net Zero Carbon Expert Panel of New London Architecture (NLA) and the Building Services Engineers Declaration of the Climate and Biodiversity Emergency. Recent projects have included post occupancy evaluation of buildings, net zero strategies and advising on climate resilience.
Syed Ahsan Baqi
Senior Electrical Engineer
Cundall
DAY 2 | AI tools to help us reach net zero | Tuesday 6 August 2024
Syed has an extensive background in both electrical engineering and digital technologies having worked for a global IT firm in the Middle East and as a consulting design engineer in Australia, Asia and the Middle East on a wide range of projects including data centres and mission critical facilities such as hospitals.
In addition to his engineering qualifications, Syed is an accredited Uptime professional with demonstrated expertise in ensuring the resilience and operational continuity of digital infrastructure. His engagement with AI includes the use of AI in parametric design and modelling, and as part of Cundall’s internal AI working group, researching and testing uses for AI in optimising workflows, navigating regulatory and design complexities, and enhancing asset lifecycle performance.
Alex Bogdanova
Sustainability and Advanced Computational Design Lead SA
Mott MacDonald
DAY 3 | Tools for passive design | Tuesday 13 August 2024
An emerging industry professional in high-performance design analytics and sustainability advisory thinking. Using architectural training and application to create generative and parametric designs with a unique perspective on building systems solutions and building physics. Building skills in integrated design leadership; with an ability to work seamlessly in the space between architecture and engineering.
Michael Calcoen
Technical Director, Built Environment
Mott MacDonald
DAY 5 | Importance of culture; briefing tools & soft skills | Tuesday 27 August 
Michael is a Technical Director at Mott MacDonald, CIBSE chartered mechanical engineer and acts as multi-disciplinary lead on major buiding’s projects. With a diverse portfolio spanning civic & arts, commercial, retail, industrial & critical environments, integrated station developments, aviation, health, education, and entertainment sectors, he has honed a skill for steering complex projects from concept through to construction. Michael is fueled by a passion for innovative building design and thrive in collaborating with high-performing teams, committed to steering the Built Environment towards a low carbon future.
Dr Mark Davie, CEng MCIBSE
Regional ANZ Chair
Chair - DAY 2 | AI tools to help us reach net zero | Tuesday 6 August 2024
Mark is passionate about designing better-performing healthcare buildings and improving existing hospitals for society and the environment and invests his time in educating the engineering community, sharing research, and ideas and supporting the community of built environment professionals in their pursuit of excellence. As Chair of the ANZ region, Mark’s passion extends to ensure CIBSE members and the broader construction industry are provided with the best building services knowledge and tools to work with.
Jen Elias
CIBSE NSW Chair and Sustainability & Building Performance
Atelier Ten
Chair - DAY 5 | Importance of culture; briefing tools & soft skills | Tuesday 27 August 2024
Jin Kawasaki
Head Researcher
Mitsubishi Electric
DAY 2 | AI tools to help us reach net zero | Tuesday 6 August 2024
Jin Kawasaki is working as Head Researcher at Information Technology R&D Center of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation. He received Ph.D. degree from University of Tsukuba in 2016. His research interest is smart building and city platform which provides solution such as carbon neutrality, energy management and workplace management.
Nick Lander
Director of Climate Change Physical Risk & Resilience
Aurecon
Day 1 | The latest climate science and the urgency for action | Tuesday 30 July 2024
Nicholas Lander is a director of Climate Change Physical Risk & Resilience at Aurecon and has been working in the field of sustainability in the built environment for 25 years.
He strives to make cities and communities sustainable - not just through incremental improvements in efficiency, but by understanding and getting the most out of the relationships they have with their surrounding areas, their people, their governments, and the way projects are delivered. This often means looking outside the project boundary and engaging other stakeholders.
He was a contributing author of the book Buildings for Extreme Environments:Arid, published by CIBSE, an associate editor of the Institution of Civil Engineers’ journal, “Engineering Sustainability”, and has written various papers and presented several times at international conferences on sustainability.
Eoin Loughnane
Manager (NSW/ACT)
A.G. Coombs Advisory
DAY 4 | Learnings from, and modifications to existing buildings | Tuesday 20 August 2024
Eoin is a Mechanical Engineer with over 20 years’ experience in the commercial, civic and defence sectors. He specialises in bringing together multi-disciplinary engineering teams and leading them through projects from concept through defects liability phase.
Atesh Mani
National Product Manager
Mitsubishi Electric Australia
DAY 4 | Learnings from, and modifications to existing buildings | Tuesday 20 August 2024
Over 15years of experience in HVAC industry specialising in residential/ commercial/ industrial cooling/heating applications and IT cooling for Datacentres.
Actively driving business growth, implementing customer experience research, overseeing market requirements & product developments. Focused on energy efficient sustainable product development.
James Moyes
Energy Sector lead
VA Sciences
Chair - DAY 4 | Learnings from, and modifications to existing buildings | Tuesday 20 August 2024
James is a senior associate and energy sector lead at VA Sciences. He is a Chartered Professional Engineer with over 10 years’ international experience across various fields. An experienced and well-rounded building services engineer with a background and speciality as an Electrical Engineer. James’ passion lies in healthcare and critical infrastructure design as well as energy transition planning and design. His work recently has revolved heavily around removal of fossil fuels from existing facilities critical facilities using emerging technologies.
Marius Rime Meyer
Green Star AP, Senior Associate
Warren and Mahoney
Chair - DAY 3 | Tools for passive design | Tuesday 13 August 2024
Marius is an optimistic architect and planetary enthusiast who believes the design of buildings and places is first and foremost about creating good, human centric spaces for people and creating them in a way that ultimately helps our planet regenerate.
Maria Mingallon
Knowledge and Information Manager, AI and Data
Mott MacDonald
DAY 2 | AI tool to help us reach net zero | Tuesday 6 August 2024
Having dedicated part of her career to structural engineering and architecture, she has worked in UK, Canada and New Zealand, applying digital technology to improve quality and productivity in the construction industry. She has received several awards and recognitions for her work, including the 2015 Visionary Prize from the Québec Association of Consulting Engineers, the 2020 Autodesk’s 40 Under 40: Champions of Construction, and the certification on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Animation and CGI Motion from ColumbiaX by Columbia University in New York. She is also a co-founder of New Zealand’s Digital Users Group, and a former columnist for Architecture Now NZ on the Future of Design.
Andrew O’Donnell
Director
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM)
DAY 3 | Tools for passive design | Tuesday 13 August 2024
Over the past 18 year's with AHMM he has led a series of innovative and award-winning projects, spanning a range of typologies from schools and civic buildings through to major mixed-use urban regeneration projects. In 2022, he returned to Australia to lead AHMM’s new Studio in Sydney.
His work has been recognised with numerous awards and he has taught, guest lectured and critiqued at the Queensland University of Technology, The Bartlett, Greenwich University, UAL Central St Martins and the University of Technology Sydney and has lectured on practice for the RIBA.
Philip Oldfield
Head of School and Professor of Architecture
UNSW
DAY 1 | The latest climate science and the urgency for action | Tuesday 30 July 2024
Philip is a Professor of Architecture and Head of School at UNSW Built Environment, Sydney. His research examines how we can build to meet the needs of society, while limiting the environmental impact of the built environment. This includes special interests in tall building architecture, embodied carbon and climate literacy in architectural education.
Tina Perinotto
Managing Editor, Founder
The Fifth Estate
DAY 1 | The latest climate science and the urgency for action | Tuesday 30 July 2024
Before founding The Fifth Estate, Tina worked as a senior writer at the AFR and edited Property Australia magazine and holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Monash University. She has spoken at, and facilitated a number of industry events.
Bruce Precious
Principal Consultant
Six Capital Consulting
DAY 1 | The latest climate science and the urgency for action | Tuesday 30 July 2024
Bruce has been at the forefront of sustainability in the built environment sector for over 20 years working with a range of government and property related businesses to transform how the property industry responds to the most significant environmental and social challenges. Previously Bruce worked for the NSW Sustainable Energy Development Authority (SEDA) as Associate Director Energy Efficiency when award winning programs such as Energy Smart Business, Australian Building Greenhouse Rating (forerunner to NABERS) and GreenPower were launched.
Michael Snow
Freelance Consultant - Energy Advisory
DAY 4 | Learnings from, and modifications to existing buildings | Tuesday 20 August 2024
Michael has been at the forefront of built environment energy and efficiency for more than 15 years. Most notably, Michael delivered the $128M Sustainable Urban Precincts Program at RMIT and more recently he developed the technical solution for and installed the first large scale (>1MW) 4 pipe heat pump retrofit for HHW and DHW in a significant Melbourne building. Michael is currently providing advisory services to the energy sector and large / complex organisations seeking an electrified path to net zero.
Iain Stewart
Co-Founder & CFO
Exergenics
DAY 4 | Learnings from, and modifications to existing buildings | Tuesday 20 August 2024
Iain Stewart is the distinguished Co-Founder and CEO of Exergenics, a groundbreaking software company that aims to revolutionise the efficiency of air conditioning systems in large buildings worldwide. With a master's degree in Environmental Engineering from the University of Melbourne, Iain’s career is marked by innovation, particularly in leveraging machine learning, physics simulation, and advanced optimization techniques for environmental sustainability. Before founding Exergenics in 2019, he made significant contributions as a senior analyst at ClimateWorks Australia, developing Australia's leading decarbonization model with the CSIRO.
Evelyn Storey
Director, Eminence & Sustainability and Managing Director, Queensland
Aurecon
DAY 5 | Importance of culture; briefing tools & soft skills | Tuesday 27 August 2024
An experienced business leader with over 35 years' experience in the design and delivery of major built environment projects, both in Australia and the UK. Evelyn is Aurecon's Managing Director for Queensland, responsible for the leadership and performance of the Queensland business, including engineering project delivery, financial performance, client and staff engagement.
As Director, Sustainability, Evelyn is also leading Aurecon’s Sustainability in Design program, focused on embedding sustainability across all markets, capabilities and projects at Aurecon. She is responsible for ensuring all our project teams bring appropriate thinking, solutions and technology to respond to the important challenges of sustainability and climate response.
Simon Wild
Sustainability Advisor and Founder
Andefena
DAY 5 | Importance of culture; briefing tools & soft skills | Tuesday 27 August 2024
Executive with over 20 years experience in sustainability, sustainable finance, ESG reporting, sustainability related financial disclosure, TCFD, strategic resilience, climate risk and scenario planning. Complex problem solver, strategic thinker, influencer and communicator. CEO, Managing Director, Board Director and Mentor.
