LCANZ AGM 2024

Annual General Meeting of the Life Cycle Association of New Zealand

Please join us for this year’s free LCANZ AGM on Wednesday 11th September 2024 from 3pm to 6pm at Mott Macdonald, L2 Boardroom, 2/139 Packenham Street West, Auckland CBD. 

The AGM will be principally an in-person event, but a videocall link will be provided to all registered members who are unable to attend in-person. 

In addition to the AGM, we are excited to hold a presentations session from our LCANZ members (4pm-5pm). See details below. This event is by open invitation to both members and non-members. 

Invitation to 16th Annual General Meeting of the Life Cycle Association of New Zealand

Date: Thursday 11th September 2024

Time: 3pm – 6pm

Venue: Mott Macdonald, L2 Boardroom, 2/139 Packenham Street West, Auckland CBD

Online: Details will be emailed to all registered attendees

Event includes:

3:00-4:00pm – LCANZ AGM with the following Agenda

• President’s report
• Treasurer’s report
• Committee elections
• LCANZ updates including: 
  • Best Practice Working Group
  • Professional Development sub-committee
• EPD Australasia update
• General business

4:00-5.00pm – Presentation by LCANZ members

5.00-6.00pm – Networking

LCANZ member presentations

Our member Studio Pacific Architecture will give a presentation on ‘Navigating Carbon Assessment and LCA in the Architectural Design Process' where they explore carbon benchmarking in architectural projects, including current initiatives and future plans (typology-based strategies). They will show applications of life cycle analysis in landscape architecture and whole-of-life carbon assessment in residential masterplans.

Madeline Furness, an environmental engineer working in the water infrastructure industry at Pattle Delamore Partners in Christchurch. She recently completed her PhD in Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment from the University of Canterbury Department of Civil and Natural Resources Engineering in Christchurch together with the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso school of Biochemical Engineering in Chile. She will present her PhD research ‘Quantifying Life Cycle Sustainability Impacts of the Wastewater Circular Economy in Chile’, comparing three scenarios: wastewater discharge without treatment, conventional treatment, and biofactory wastewater circular economy configurations. She used Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment (LCSA), combining environmental, social, and economic indicators.