Extreme Green Infrastructure Masterclass

An interactive masterclass on how to shake up the way we design, maintain and value critical natural assets in our urban environment. No more value engineering.

If you’re involved in designing, delivering, maintaining, engineering or funding green infrastructure, you need to be in this masterclass.

Presenters

• Jac Semmler - Director, Plant Practitioner, Super Bloom
• Jon Hazelwood – Principal, Public Realm Sector Leader, Hassell
• David Jenkins – Chief Executive Officer,  IPWEA (Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia)

Nature touches us all – and protects our world. It’s inseparable from our net zero ambitions. But it needs our active care and attention. We need to value it; and make sure its creation, maintenance and replacement is funded in local government asset planning.

Above all we need to be creative and be prepared to totally upend our preconceptions about how our landscapes should look. We need to learn how rewilding can generate biodiversity and habitat for endangered species – and save a fortune on lawn mowing.

Extreme Green Infrastructure brings you presenters who are at the nexus of the change we need.

Key themes

• Nature is essential for resilience as the climate heats up
• Valuing nature – not pricing it
• Asset management planning – through local government
• Global best practice
• Rewilding and biodiversity instead of monoculture
• Maintenance, protection, replacement
• What stands in the way of change – engineers, elected council officials, accounting services?
• The potential for urban greening to become part the nature repair market or other nature based valuation and assets being shaped