Adelaide Sustainable Building Network Videos

SustainabiliTEA session on the 31st of March, 2021

Join us for a chat with Brett Aylen, Director at Brett Aylen Architecture, Australian Passive House Association (APHA) South Australia Rep and Godfather (co-founder) of the ASBN.

Our session begins with a short presentation of high lighting Passive House in Australia and some of Brett's work to illustrate how a Passive House project should approached in South Australia.

Our SustainabiliTEA hosts Yaara Plaves and Tyler Lawrence then open up the conversation for questions and comments from the community.

ASBN hosts
// Yaara Plaves, Associate and Head of the National Sustainability Forum at Hames Sharley
//Tyler Lawrence, Engineer at Lucid Consulting Australia

We respectfully acknowledge the Kaurna community as the Traditional Custodians of Tarndanya, the City of Adelaide, the land on which we hosted and broadcasted our event. We pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging and their connection to country/land.

SustainabiliTEA session on the 24th of February, 2021

Join us for a chat with Phil Donaldson, Executive Leader of Bioregional Australia Foundation to find out about the One Planet Living framework and how it can be applied to creating sustainable built environments.

Phil is also a director of Sustain SA as a collaborative consultancy business that works with other companies in order to bring the best people together to drive change, improve quality of life for people, prosperity and the planet. He is a Green Star Accredited Professional and Communities Assessor. As Director of Sustain SA he was instrumental in developing the Adelaide Living Lab working with SA Government, University of SA, Renewal SA and CRC for Low Carbon Living.

We begin with a whirl wind tour of the One Planet living Framework and how it is being implemented around the world. It invites us to the challenge of how we can use it in South Australia across multiple sectors as a complement to other approaches and to create a global movement building on all the great things already happening in SA!

Our SustainabiliTEA hosts Yaara Plaves and Tyler Lawrence then open up the conversation for questions and comments from the community.

ASBN hosts
// Yaara Plaves, Associate and Head of the National Sustainability Forum at Hames Sharley
//Tyler Lawrence, Engineer at Lucid Consulting Australia

We respectfully acknowledge the Kaurna community as the Traditional Custodians of Tarndanya, the City of Adelaide, the land on which we hosted and broadcasted our event. We pay respect to their Elders past, present and emerging and their connection to country/land.

Recorded on 04.11.2020

Climate scientists have been warning us for decades that we face a climate emergency, and that we are traveling toward catastrophic tipping points. In the past couple of years, more and more local, state and national governments across the globe made climate emergency declarations to acknowledge the action which is required to be taken. This momentum has carried over into built environment industries, with Architects, Engineers, Planners, and Builders Declare programs formalising a collective commitment and pledge working practices which drives positive impact through the buildings, infrastructure and cities we create.

Many have now ‘DECLARED’, but now what? What actions and approaches must organisations execute to ensure they meet this commitment toward climate action? How can these organisations keep themselves and their fellow signatories accountable to ensure this is not an empty promise?

Please join the ASBN and South Australians committed to address our climate emergency in a discussion to progress the built environment Declare movements in our state.

Our distinguished panel includes:

// Cary Duffield - Director Troppo Architects – Australian Architects Declare SA Representative
// Cathy Chesson - Technical Lead Sustainability at Mott MacDonald – Australian Engineers Declare signatory
// Michael McKeown - Director at JensenPLUS
// Jackson Digney - Director of Enduro Builders - Australian Builders Declare signatory
// Amanda Balmer - Director at WAX Design

Following the ASBN Spotlight on Bushfire Resilience, we caught up with Emilis to answer some of the questions that were asked by our community.

Emilis answers questions on landscape and water tank considerations, the role of architects after a bushfire event, water pumps and more. He mentions a range of resources that are available for further expert information. You can find links to these below, as well as some other useful resources.

//Resources mentioned by Emilis:

Email for Emilis: logistics@savem.org.au

Red Cross Psychological First Aid Guide: redcross.org.au/getmedia/dc21542f-16e4-44ba-8e3a-4f6b907bba6f/Psychological-First-Aid-An-Australian-Guide-04-20.pdf.aspx

Your Home 4th Edition: hort360.com.au/wordpress/uploads/Energy/Lighting/Your%20home%20technical%20manual%20(4th%20Edition).pdf

Ramsay, C. and Rudolph, L., 2003. Landscape and building design for bushfire areas. CSIRO publishing.

NSW Rural Fire Service, Planning for Bushfire Protection, (Landscaping considerations from page 70): rfs.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/4400/Complete-Planning-for-Bush-Fire-Protection-2006.pdf

Di DeLaine, Rural Solutions SA on behalf of the Eyre Peninsula Natural Resources Management Board: yumpu.com/en/document/read/43267008/landscaping-for-fire-protection-eyre-peninsula-natural-resources-

Government of South Australia, Minister’s Specification SA 78 Additional requirements in designated bushfire prone areas: sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/19320/Ministers_specifications_additional_requirements_in_designated_bushfire_prone_areas.pdf

South Australian Fire Authorities, BUILT ENVIRONMENTSECTION POLICY NO. 14: Above Ground Water Storage Tanks for Fire Fighting Purposes, safecom-files.s3.amazonaws.com/current/docs/fire_services_policy_0014_above_ground_water_storage_for_fire_fighting_purposes.pdf

CFS: cfs.sa.gov.au/site/prepare_for_a_fire/prepare_your_home_and_property/building_in_bushfireprone_areas.jsp

Other useful links:

Government of South Australia, Building or developing in bushfire prone areas, sa.gov.au/topics/planning-and-property/land-and-property-development/building-rules-regulations-and-information/bushfire/building-or-developing-in-bushfire-prone-areas

Country Fire Association Victoria, Landscaping for Bushfire: Garden Design and Plant Selection, (check local regulations about declared weeds before use) cfa.vic.gov.au/documents/20143/72271/landscaping_for_bushfire.pdf

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This talk will reveal the complicated nature of the question on how to create the most bushfire resilient properties both in areas that have historically been at risk, as well as areas we have not previously considered. It will advocate for a whole of community approach to developing resilience, utilising the concept of ‘fire fitness’ to describe measures well beyond clearing a few trees and attempting to utilise materials that are fire-rated in buildings.
Emilis will highlight specific approaches, with several case studies, to be taken by architects and other professionals, as well as home-owners to improve their chances of resilience in bushfire events. Whilst there is no such thing as a bushfire proof home in many areas, there are vast improvements that can be made in how we approach our preparations for the inevitable increasing intensity of these fires.

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During bushfires Emilis Prelgauskas steps up to provide logistics support to veterinarians in the South Australian Tier 2 animal triage agency SAVEM. He has deployed to 16 firegrounds in the last decade including post-fire pro bono assistance on Recovery Committees to fire impacted families. In the usual day-to-day Emilis is a 47 year veteran architect also refereed as a Commissioner on the Environment Resources and Development Court of South Australia. He has a portfolio of buildings designed and occupied in fire prone areas, with some destroyed and some surviving bushfire events. He brings his practical, built environment, legal and academic backgrounds to the evolving issues of buildings and bushfire. In October 2019 he presented at the Australian Buildings Bushfire Conference in Leura, NSW.

The ASBN and Arup collaborated to facilitate a discussion around how technological transformation impacts the way we need to think about designing our city and it’s built form to be sustainable, liveable and vibrant.

The discussion includes a group of noted urban design, transport planning, sustainability and mobility technology experts to as part of a panel discussion about the challenges this technological transformation in transport will present Adelaide, how we need to consider transport design more closely in step with land use and built form and the steps we could take to direct the city to a more liveable and sustainable future.

Short presentation by Daniel Osbourne, Senior Transport Planner at Arup, is followed by a panel discussion featuring the following personnel.

/ Diana Loges – Transport Principal at Arup
/ Amelia McCabe - Psychologist & User Researcher at Global Centre for Modern Ageing
/ Dr Charlie Hargroves - Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute and the Sustainable Built Environment National Research Centre
/ Daniel Bennett – Director of DJB_LA

Event Date: 13.11.2019

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Presenter and Panel Bio

/ Daniel Osborne - Senior Transport Planner | Arup
Urban transportation plan-gineer. Daniel brings a strong data driven approach to planning, design and policy development, informed by the work of globally recognised thought leaders. Key skills in public transport infrastructure and network design, human scaled street design and spatial driven data analysis. Daniel is a big fan of challenging conventional wisdom.

/ Diana Loges - Transport Principal | Arup
For the past 20+ years Diana has worked to plan, develop and delivering transport projects in Australia and our region. While this has included major infrastructure in the regions and cities, Diana's speciality has been tricky projects – the first integrated transport projects, the projects that were strategically important, those that were politically sensitive. Complexity, poison chalices and the ‘hard road’ is what she does. But the creative element has always been there.
Diana is a holistic thinker. She connects ideas together. And while her various random ideas have always been welcomed, it is now that they are becoming the main game.

/ Amelia McCabe - Psychologst & User Researcher | Global Centre for Modern Ageing
Amelia is a registered psychologist and a user researcher with a passion for human centered design and aged care. Amelia specialises in the integration of empirical research and user-experience (including facilitating co-design workshops) to deliver commercial insights and enterprise-based reports to clients. This has led to opportunities to present at Australian and international conferences.

/ Dr. Charlie Hargroves - Senior Research Fellow | Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute and the Sustainable Built Environment National Research Centre
Dr Hargroves is an internationally renowned expert in sustainable economic development working with the business, university, government and civil society sectors with experience in the Middle East, United States, Europe and Asia and is a Full Member of the Club of Rome. In 2001 Dr Hargroves co-founded The Natural Edge Project and has co-authored 5 international books that have sold over 85,000 copies in 6 languages along with numerous book chapters, academic papers, and industry reports. Two of the books were ranked 5th and 12th among the ‘Top 40 Sustainability Books in 2010’ by the Cambridge Sustainability Leaders Program.

/ Daniel Bennett - Director | DJB_LA
Daniel has design and strategy experience spanning 20 years and his work is multi-award winning.
His background in landscape architecture and urban design strategy has been focused on shaping better cities through infrastructure, including leading roles on Sydney’s light rail (NSW), Canberra’s capital metro (ACT), Gallipoli Underpass (SA), Adelaide’s light rail expansion (Coast to Coast Light Rail, North Terrace Tram Extn and the King William Street tram upgrade, all in SA), the Seaford rail extension (SA), as well as the O'bahn City Access Project (SA).

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This event was a collaboration between the Adelaide Sustainable Building Network (ASBN) and Arup.

EVENT MEDIA PARTNER
Environmental Science Media

David Wrench will present an overview of the Hivve, an advanced modular classroom providing schools with a zero net energy learning space that is scalable, flexible, affordable and fast. Each Hivve building is embedded with Hivve iQ, an integrated renewable energy system with smart IOT technology to provide schools with fully climate controlled, healthy learning environments with lower energy costs and zero CO2 emissions. A Hivve modular building was recently installed at Alberton Primary School, a first for South Australia.

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David Wrench - Managing Director | Hivve

David combines extensive experience in modular building design and construction with a deep understanding of energy systems and markets. With an engineering background, he has worked in the banking, energy and construction sectors, having successfully established and grown energy and construction businesses over the past 25 years. David’s passion for innovation, clever design and a vision that schools can use smart renewable energy systems to sustainably meet the needs of future generations led to the creation of Hivve Technology in 2017.

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ASBN SPONSORS

dsquared Consulting | Goodhouse | Adelaide and Mount Lofty Natural Resources Management Board | Mirage Homes | Precycle | Enduro Builders | Aztec Developments | Arup | Ametalin | Cundall | Endemic Environments | Warwick O'Brien Architects | Solar Warehouse Australia | Adelaide Heat Pumps | TAFE SA Tonsley Campus | Whistling Kite Wines

MEDIA PARTNER

Environmental Science Media

The Adelaide Sustainable Building Network is a not-for profit organisation which ignites positive action towards sustainable built environments.

Lewis Hewton & Wayne Grivell will present an overview of University of South Australia's Cancer Research Institute building. The project has received a LEED Gold rating from the US Green Building Council, showcasing a strong commitment to sustainable, healthy and energy efficient outcomes. A technically complex building, the project has established a world class, high performance facility that is at the forefront of international pharmacy and cancer research and allied health education.

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Wayne Grivell - Director | Swanbury Penglase

With over twenty years experience as an architect, Wayne has been responsible for the delivery of a wide range of projects, with specific expertise in the educational, commercial, health-care and institutional sectors. He has played an instrumental role in the delivery of several large and complex projects for universities and schools; projects that involve the successful coming together of large and multidisciplinary teams. Wayne places a strong emphasis on open lines of communication and a fundamentally collaborative approach to project delivery.

Lewis Hewton - Principle | Cundall

Lewis is a Principal ESD Consultant from Cundall with over 10 years’ experience specialising in building physics, modelling and simulation. Lewis has been appointed by the GBCA as an independent Green Star Assessor and is currently working to deliver sustainable outcomes on a diverse portfolio of projects across the country.

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ASBN SPONSORS

dsquared Consulting | Goodhouse | Adelaide and Mount Lofty Natural Resources Management Board | Mirage Homes | Precycle | Enduro Builders | Aztec Developments | Arup | Ametalin | Cundall | Endemic Environments | Warwick O'Brien Architects | Solar Warehouse Australia | Adelaide Heat Pumps | TAFE SA Tonsley Campus | Whistling Kite Wines

MEDIA PARTNER

Environmental Science Media

The Adelaide Sustainable Building Network is a not-for profit organisation which ignites positive action towards sustainable built environments.

// House Info

Currently under construction, the 10 Star Home was designed to demonstrate the possibilities of sustainable residential design and construction in South Australia. As SA’s first 10 Star home, our hope is that we demonstrate and assess the following:
/ design and construction costs
/ predicted vs actual energy efficiency
/ thermal comfort performance
/ air tightness
/ home automation technologies to support energy efficiency
/ heat recovery ventilation

//Presenter Info

Samuel Jeyaseelan is the Studio Lead of SUHOstudio, the creators of the 10 Star Home project. Since joining the SUHOstudio team at the beginning of 2019, Sam’s role on the 10 Star Home project has been to aid in project delivery and complete the interior design. He has been working closely with the construction team on site to ensure that the atypical construction details required to achieve the 10 Star rating are both buildable and meet the strict requirements of the design.

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Dr Timothy O'Leary presents on models of Residential Energy Efficiency disclosure for Existing Homes, Energy Performance Certificates and Scorecards.

Presenter Bio
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Dr. Timothy O'Leary - University of South Australia School of Natural and Built Environments
Dr Timothy O’Leary is a teaching and research academic in the School of Natural and Built Environments, Division of IT, Engineering and Environment. His research and teaching covers the fields of Property Development, Low Carbon, Smart and Sustainable Buildings and Building Information Modelling (BIM). He holds a Masters of Architecture degree from UNISA as well as Phd in the area of Sustainable Energy Engineering of Buildings. His research papers have focused on Residential Energy Efficiency and the introduction of more stringent energy performance requirement and energy disclosure mechanisms for buildings. He has worked on climate change adaption strategies for the built environment and an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded collaborative project on achieving greater lifetime affordability of housing in Australia.

ASBN SPONSORS
SUHO | dsquared Consulting | Adelaide and Mt Lofty Ranges Natural Resource Management Board | Renewal SA | Goodhouse | Whistling Kite Wines | Ametalin | Warwick O'Brien Architects

MEDIA PARTNER
Environmental Science Media

The Adelaide Sustainable Building Network is a not-for profit organisation which ignites positive action towards sustainable built environments.

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Dr Stephen Berry explores the following aspects of net zero energy buildings - (a) most important design considerations, (b) where is best value for money, (c) do net zero energy building make economic sense and (d) do end users like net zero energy buildings

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Dr. Stephen Berry - UniSA Research Node for Low Carbon Living
Dr Stephen Berry is a scientist with a passion for investigating how we can improve the quality of people’s lives through better building and precinct design, and the application of renewable resources.
Dr Berry has tertiary qualifications in applied science, business studies, public policy and renewable energy, and a PhD in mechanical engineering. Dr Berry has published extensively in key international peer-reviewed journals and regularly presents at major international conferences.
Actively engaged with industry both locally and nationally, Dr Berry has returned to Adelaide following a long career in the Australian Public Service managing government policy and programs to improve the energy and greenhouse gas emission performance of the Australian building sector.

ASBN SPONSORS
SUHO | dsquared Consulting | Adelaide and Mt Lofty Ranges Natural Resource Management Board | Renewal SA | Goodhouse | Whistling Kite Wines | Ametalin | Warwick O'Brien Architects

MEDIA PARTNER
Environmental Science Media

The Adelaide Sustainable Building Network is a not-for profit organisation which ignites positive action towards sustainable built environments.

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Tags: energy efficiency, green buildings, sustainable design and sustainable homes

Its been another fantastic year for the ASBN! Have a quick whirlwind of the 2017 ASBN Experience!

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