Webinar: Net Zero Carbon (Recording Option)

The race to a net zero carbon built environment is gaining momentum, not just in voluntary commitments but regulation as well. Quantity surveying professionals are perfectly positioned to take advantage of the tsunami of client technical and service needs. High-value advisory and technical service provision to extend business revenue is waiting. How will you and your firm step into the breach, skill up, and action?

To accelerate your understanding of the technical discipline requirements, evolving regulatory environment, and tools, we have convened this panel of experts to clearly provide the science-based evidence for you. Our panel, Scientia Professor Deo Prasad, A/Prof Philip Oldfield, and Dr. Caroline Noller co-authored the recently released paper titled "Race to Net Zero Carbon: A Climate Emergency Guide for New and Existing Buildings in Australia” which is intended to engage with built environment professionals in a “plain english” pragmatic format to accelerate action.

The quantification of embodied and operational carbon is extremely relevant to the quantity surveying profession.

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About the Speakers

Caroline Noller
CEO and Co-Founder, The Footprint Company

Caroline is recognised internationally for her contribution to the development of property whole of life cycle carbon assessment, green building standards, and sustainable design. She founded The Footprint Company with the vision of delivering low carbon design leadership globally – via the cloud-based software systems which she created via her doctoral studies.

Her doctoral studies on embodied carbon cost in commercial buildings at UNSW led to appointments at Lendlease and the GPT Group where she developed the software platform which was the foundation of The Footprint Company and calculator software. Her degree in Quantity Surveying has served as the foundation to all of her work and has been part of her success in achieving engagement with diverse stakeholders, on the complex topic of whole-of-life carbon.

Philip Oldfield
Head of School, UNSW Built Environment

Philip’s research interests are focused on sustainable design, embodied carbon, lifecycle thinking, and tall building architecture. He is Chief Investigator on research projects with total funding in the order of $1million and author of The Sustainable Tall Building: A Design Primer’ published by Routledge. 

Philip is a British Science Association Media Fellow,. and has spent time working at The Guardian, writing for the Science and Environment teams. He has also written for Architecture Australia, The Architects’ Journal, Building Economist, and many other publications. 

Deo Prasad
Scientia Professor, UNSW

Scientia Professor Deo Prasad AO is a long-standing champion of energy efficient and low carbon buildings and cities.  He ran the CRC for Low Carbon Living and now focussed on Decarbonisation projects nationally. 

He has recently published the Australian Guide on Net Zero Carbon Buildings and an accompanying book is to be released soon.  Previously he published books such as Designing with Solar Power (EarthScan) and Decarbonising the built environment – charting the transitions (MacMillans).