Are you ready for changes to how the construction sector must reduce waste and carbon emissions?

Join us for the Building out Waste and Carbon Masterclass.

This is your chance to get ahead of upcoming changes. Learn about the best industry practices for reducing waste and emissions in your operations. Taking action now could also help you save money, win more contracts and be more sustainable.

Engage with key industry stakeholders from architects, material suppliers, developers, contractors, regulators and end-of-life management providers

Don’t miss out

Industry speakers will share their successful approaches from designing out waste and carbon in the first place, to on-site practices, and reusing materials and products.

Learn, be inspired and contribute to the acceleration of a low carbon circular construction sector.

Sessions:

Introduction: The current situation and opportunities.
- The circular future
- How low carbon and waste reduction strategies interrelate
What action is Government taking that you need to know about?
Panel: How are we going to design out waste and carbon in the first place?
Presentations and panel: How best to use procurement to reduce waste and carbon.
Case studies: Onsite and offsite best practices to reduce waste and carbon.
Case studies: Maximising the end of life opportunity.
Interactive session: Materials innovation
- Managing plastics
- Material passports
Interactive session: Transitioning to the circular economy. What are the key requirements needed by your organisation to contribute to a low carbon circular construction sector?

Throughout: contribute to the low carbon circular economy activity map - what activity is currently happening across Aotearoa New Zealand to build out waste and carbon within the construction sector.

Speakers:

Mark Roberts, Senior Waste Planning Advisor, Auckland Council
Anne Pezaro, Senior Policy Analyst, Ministry for the Environment
Barbara Nebel, CEO, thinkstep-anz
Lizzi Whaley, CEO, Spaceworks Interior Architecture
Hamish Grotrian, Director, Pavilion Group + Architects
Damiloju Adeyina, Technical Manager, New Zealand Green Building Council
Rachel Trinder, Manager Waste Minimisation & Site Clearance, Kāinga Ora
Brian Berg, Manager, Carbon Neutral Housing, Kāinga Or
Regan Burke, Managing Director, CivilShare
Dr Terri-Ann Berry, Director, Environmental Solutions Research Centre, Unitec
Nigel Benton, Director, Benton Ltd
Annie Day, Project Manager, Naylor Love
Anna Halliwell, Auckland Council
Paul Singleton, National Operations Manager, Precinct Properties
Scott Fisher, CEO, Offsite NZ
Ruth Boyes, Junk Run
Ken Johns, Director, Polymer Processing
Alex Hawthorne & Dylan Bull, Directors, Levela Deconstruction
James Griffin, GM Circular Economy, Sustainable Business Network

Speakers and sessions subject to change.

Made possible by Auckland Council, Unitec Environmental Solutions Research Centre and thinkstep-anz.