Circular Design - Built Environment
Description
Part of CEWA’s Circular Economy Series, in this session four practitioners will share what they’ve learned trying to deliver circularity in commercial fit-outs—and the barriers blocking better outcomes across the whole built environment.
We’ll use those stories to spark a wider conversation and co-create the sector’s top priorities to tackle next. By the end of the event, we’ll:
Agree on the initial priorities to address over the next 6 months
Recruit industry professionals to lead and actively participate in CEWA-backed working groups that turn those priorities into action
If you’re keen to make change happen, this is where it starts!
We look forward to seeing you there - spread the word with your colleagues and networks!
Event timings
5pm - Event registration opens
5.45pm - Welcome and opening remarks
6.00pm - Speaker presentations followed by panel discussion
6.45pm - Audience conversation on priorities for circularity in the built environment in WA
Networking through to event close 8pm
Light refreshments and soft drinks will be provided.
Lineup
Karla Fox-Reynolds
Karla Fox-Reynolds has created a career out of industry firsts and quietly leading by doing. As Founder of Panacea Design, she focuses on enabling practical pathways and accessible solutions that helps homeowners and property investors create more comfortable, energy efficient and future ready homes. With a strong skill set spanning design, sustainability leadership, project management, stakeholder engagement and systems change, Karla is driven by testing and implementing new processes and working at the intersection of system design, climate resilience, and social impact. Karla also co-chairs the Material Embodied Carbon Leaders Alliance (MECLA) residential working group where partners collaborate to reduce embodied carbon. Karla has previously held roles with Hassell, Climate-KIC Australia, Lendlease, Curtin University, and Cundall, leading nationally and globally significant initiatives and projects.
Mat Langley
Mat Langley is an executive director, procurement leader and supply-chain decarbonisation advisor specialising in sustainable procurement, ESG and circular economy implementation. He is the co-author of Circular Procurement, a practical guide to embedding circular economy principles into purchasing, fit-out and supply-chain decisions. A former Global Procurement Head, Sustainability at CBRE, Mat has extensive experience across property, facilities, construction and international supply chains. Through his advisory and governance work, he helps organisations reduce embodied carbon and waste, extend asset lifecycles, improve supply-chain transparency and deliver measurable environmental and commercial value.
Paul Lulic
Paul Lulic is an accomplished property leader working across multiple continents and sectors as a contractor, consultant, and principal. He has a proven ability to conceptualise, lead, and deliver complex property strategies, acquisitions, development projects, and facility operations. A former Business owner, operator, and early adopter of asset circularity practices, Pasul has developed workplace asset redistribution and recycling centres tracking and reporting organisational asset reuse, redistribution, recycling and landfill. He established a not-for-profit program redistributing unwanted assets to charity including regular shipping to the Pacific Islands.
Stirling Fletcher
Stirling Fletcher is a Western Australian interior architect with more than 20 years’ experience in workplace architecture and design, having worked with leading practices including Blake Thornton-Smith, Geyer, Woods Bagot and Architectus. Today, Stirling operates as Wasted by Design, a consultancy focused on making good design more accessible while reducing waste. He is also co-owner of &/OR, alongside Eugene Hooks of platFORMed, providing independent circular design consulting to the commercial interiors sector. Stirling’s work explores how design can challenge the systemic waste inherent in conventional workplace development by taking a more holistic view of both what we put into buildings and what ultimately comes out of them.
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