Agenda

• Influence of sustainable development concepts on modern urban governance
• Re-tooling local government systems to build broad multi sector and multi disciplinary coalitions and partnerships for development
• The vision
• Implementing the sustainability model

• What is the proper role of planning policy in achieving sustainable design – relationship between building controls
• The approaches taken by some states – and councils – to including sustainability guidelines and benchmarks in planning instruments
• The future – the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme and its implications for communities and building owners

• Local governments and international leadership on sustainability and climate protection
• Building capacity to makes environment management decisions based on data and quantified methods
• Lessons learned – the power of aggregating small actions

• The challenges of climate change and demography and the opportunity to develop a future focused plan
• Developing a plan that meets the needs of your city
• Enabling community buy-in
• Regional cooperation

The rebuilding of Greensburg Kansas as a green town after it was destroyed by a tornado is hailed as a world first initiative. The commitment to rebuilding a fully sustainable and green town has revitalised and renewed people and place.

• The 3-D pathway to sustainable built environments
• The application of innovation
• New forms of planning and design
• Changing our attitudes and behaviour towards consumption

• Articulating Brisbane’s Smart Cities strategy and its relevance to other cities
• Connecting disparate precincts around a dynamic core
• Facilitating sustainable living for interdependent urban populations

• Integrating land use and public transport and green building design
• What can be achieved in the design of public environments?
• How neighbourhood design, public space design, and design of the urban block can contribute to making more sustainable cities

• Hot spots in infrastructure: coastal and demographic impact, consumption patterns and vulnerabilities
• Climate proofing infrastructure – Innovations in material and management
• Creating coalitions: government, industry, community and business to harness knowledge, skill and the will to change
• Costly today, insured for tomorrow

• Integrated transport and land use development: policy, strategy and implementation
• Economic benefits of TOD
• Impact on agglomeration

• Climate change crisis: a survival battle for the planet’s resources between plants and animals with the other life forms as on lookers
• Architecture as an expression of the relationship between humans and the natural world
• Biomimicry and biophilia

A look at the efforts of the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board to meet the challenges of Mumbai’s urban pollution

• Integrating water cycle management into urban planning and design

This session considers the developments in thought, design and technology that impact on urban landscapes and on how urban environments are created or retrofitted.

Three presentations followed by an open discussion on the design concepts critical to new buildings and to the retrofitting of existing city blocks and buildings.

• ESD prior to schematic design: building choices which are made early and can have huge implications on building performance
• During design: where energy / water is used in buildings – setting targets
• Post Construction: the role of building management and occupant behaviour
• Building integrated renewable energy

• Switch your thinking
• Barriers to marketing the green energy concept
• Models for growth and enabling green citizenship

• What is Cogeneration/Trigeneration?
• Typical plant used
• Thermal efficiency gains
• Load profiles - What to look for?
• Regulatory impacts
• Impact on local networks and on end users
• Financial modelling
• Likely impact of CPRS
• Ownership structure