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Pre-Loved Buildings Conference

 

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Overview


You can’t help but be impressed with the progress and ingenuity shown in the latest high-performance buildings. Indeed, environmentally sustainable design for new structures has moved ahead at a bewildering rate. Yet now it’s time that our existing building stock started to catch up.


That’s why AIRAH’s Pre-loved Buildings Conference is so important. The conference will be held in Melbourne from November 19-20.


Between 95 to 98 per cent of all buildings in Australia are “pre-loved”. That is, they are at least a few years old. Some are tired, some are shabby, some are just plain run down. And very few if any of them are designed with sustainability in mind.


“Updating the existing building stock in Australia has become the most urgent of priorities,” says AIRAH technical manager Phil Wilkinson. “They represent an obvious area where improvements can be made, efficiencies achieved and dollars saved.”

 

Partnered by Sustainability Victoria, the conference will focus on optimising the sustainable performance of pre-loved buildings, including:

 

  • Keynote address on pre-loved buildings from Mick Pearce – world-renowned architect behind CH2 (Melbourne)
  • A world first – An Australian Study showing the relationship of technical features and management practices on building performance
  • Leading-edge case studies
  • Building optimisation – making the most of controls
  • Indoor air quality versus sustainability objectives
  • Total carbon modelling
  • Retrofitting occupied buildings


Delegates are also entitled to a FREE registration at an industry-first interactive forum session “The Essential Elements to Lead the Australian Pre-loved Building Market – 2010 and beyond”. This dynamic event will provide delegates with the opportunity to workshop key topics and developments with their industry peers. The outcomes from this session will provide you with practical guidelines to use back at your workplace.

 

 

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Who should attend this conference?

  • Design engineers and consultants
  • Building owners
  • Building operators
  • Facility managers
  • Equipment suppliers
  • Service personnel and installers
  • Systems designers
  • Mechanical services contractors


This Pre-loved Buildings Conference is the fourth in a series of highly successful AIRAH conferences.

Previous pre-loved conferences were held in 2006 (Melbourne), 2007 (Brisbane) and 2008 (Sydney).

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Keynote speaker

 

Michael Pearce

 

Michael Pearce has been working in Australia, the UK, Zimbabwe and Zambia for 42 years. His experience covers a wide range, from building in remote parts of Central Africa to converting old buildings in North-East England and large-scale city developments in Harare and Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe, an ecological exhibition centre in Belgium and the CH2 council office block in Melbourne, Australia.

 

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Would you like to know more?


What:

Pre-loved Buildings Conference


Where:

Telstra Conference Centre


When:

November 19-20, 2009

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Contributions

We invite contributions from a broad range of backgrounds. Paper proposals, with an abstract of approximately 200 words, and a short biography, should be submitted to conference manager David Leach by Wednesday August 5, 2009.


Email:

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Timeline

 

  • Abstracts due by: August 5, 2009 (15 weeks before conference)
  • Acceptance of abstracts: September 11, 2009 (10 weeks before conference)
  • Technical papers due by: October 22, 2009 (4 weeks before conference)
  • PowerPoint Presentation due by: November 5, 2009 (2 weeks before conference)
  • Pre-loved Buildings Conference: November 19-20, 2009 (+ AIRAH awards night)

 

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Conference committee

 

Thanks to the conference committee for their invaulable time and effort:

 

  • Bryon Price– AG Coombs
  • Laurie Reeves– Melt FM
  • Peter Keating – TCM Solutions
  • Stephen Lyell  – Lincolne Scott

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Conference Contact

 

David Leach

AIRAH

Level 3, 1 Elizabeth Street

Melbourne, VIC 3000

Phone - +61 3 8623 3000

Fax - +61 3 9614 8949

E-mail -

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Registration details

 

Click here to register online for the Pre-loved Buildings Conference or alternatively Click here to download the registration form

 

Pre-loved buildings conference delegates are also eligible to attend the AIRAH Awards Night on Thursday November 19 at the Crown Casino at a 10% discounted price of $130. Register to attend the AIRAH Awards Night as a Pre-loved Buildings Conference delegate.

 

Full Conference Cost

AIRAH Members: $695.00
Non Members: $895.00

Full conference includes lunch, morning and afteroon tea (both days) and conference cocktail session on Day 1.



Day 1 Only Cost

AIRAH Members: $495.00
Non Members: $650.00

Day 1 includes lunch, morning and afternoon tea and conference cocktail session. Day one will begin at 8:30am and conclude at 5:30pm with conference cocktail session from 5.30pm - 6.30pm.



Day 2 Only Cost

AIRAH Members: $295.00
Non Members: $395.00

Day 2 includes morning tea and lunch. Day two will begin at 8:30am with speakers to conclude at 1:00pm, followed by an interactive forum.


 

 

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