Speakers

KEYNOTE | Lessons from large scale critical infrastructure building condition assessments

Pratik Shrestha
Principal Structural Engineer at Aurecon

Pratik is a Principal Structural Engineer with experience delivering complex, iconic projects across Australia and internationally. Starting as a graduate, he progressed into leadership, managing multidisciplinary teams and driving innovative structural solutions. He is known for client-focused delivery and successfully leading large-scale projects from concept to completion.

Mark Davie, MCIBSE
Buildings Mechanical Practice Leader, WA & NT at Aurecon

Mark is Chair of CIBSE ANZ and Health Sector Leader for Western Australia at Aurecon. With a background in building services engineering and sustainable design, Mark is passionate about improving healthcare facilities and sharing industry knowledge. He is committed to supporting built environment professionals in delivering better-performing buildings and communities.
COMPLEX SYSTEMS PRESENTERS

Auckland Hospital – all good on paper – but could we have done even better

Chris Bird
Senior Project Manager at RCP

Chris is a civil engineer with a wide range of project experience. He has worked on projects ranging from beach replenishment, through to tunnels, airports and hospitals. He started his career in the UK working as a contractor and then moved to NZ 25 years ago and at that time switched to client side project manager. His latest project was the $250m central plant and tunnels scheme at Auckland Hospital.

Compliant, Yet Underperforming

Rohit Sharma
Head of Asset Management at Downer Social Infrastructure & Citizen Services (SI&CS)

Rohit is a senior asset management leader specialising in building services performance across complex healthcare and PPP environments. He focuses on bridging the gap between design intent and operational outcomes, driving improvements in system reliability, lifecycle planning, and data-driven decision-making to deliver better-performing, fit-for-purpose assets.

Beyond Setpoints: Balancing Conservation, Public Access and Environmental Performance in Cultural Buildings

Chris Arkins, FCIBSE
Director at Steensen Varming

Chris is a Director at Steensen Varming with extensive experience delivering environmental and sustainable design solutions for complex cultural buildings. His portfolio includes Sydney Opera House, Sydney Modern, the National Gallery of Australia, and Melbourne Arts Precinct. Chris specialises in balancing conservation, visitor experience, architecture, and environmental performance.

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CRITICAL SYSTEMS PRESENTERS

New Footscray Hospital – Lessons from Delivery

Lucy Cole
Program Director, VIDA Health

Lucy is an experienced infrastructure delivery leader with a strong track record managing complex healthcare and public-private partnership projects. As Project Director for the New Footscray Hospital, Lucy brings practical insights into PPP delivery, ICT commissioning, and the critical role collaboration plays in successfully delivering major health infrastructure outcomes.

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Steve Hennessy, FCIBSE
Consultant at WT Partnership
Co-author of ‘The Soft Landings Framework Australia and New Zealand’

Steve is a senior building services engineer and sustainability consultant with extensive experience in commissioning and building performance. He is actively involved in CIBSE and industry guidance development, and is a co-author of the Soft Landings Framework Australia and New Zealand, promoting improved outcomes through learning, tuning, and operational feedback.

INDEPENDENT PERSPECTIVE (ICA & IDR) PRESENTERS

Real-world commissioning issues and how to avoid them

Mark Crawford, LCIBSE
Commissioning Manager at CxM

Mark has over 30 years’ experience as an independent commissioning agent across New Zealand and the UK. A director of commissioning management company, CxM Ltd, he specialises in high-quality commissioning management of complex buildings. Mark is also a CSA Fellow, and former CIBSE ANZ chair. He is committed to improving industry understanding of commissioning and delivering better-performing building systems.

Communication, Controls and Complexity – lessons from 20 years of NABERS projects

Chris Killoran
Sustainability Consultant at WSP

In his roles as a mechanical engineer, energy modeller, NABERS assessor and NABERS Independent Design Reviewer, Chris has seen many problems projects can fall into – and how to avoid them. Design team co-ordination, thinking about controls and part load operation, and clear documentation can prevent many common issues.

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