Mr Lee is Chairman of Beca Asia, a leading engineering consultancy in Singapore, and an Executive Director of the Beca Group, New Zealand. A New Zealand citizen and Singaporean permanent resident, he obtained his BE (1st class Hons) from the University of Auckland in 1977 and has lived and worked in New Zealand, the Philippines, Indonesia and Singapore. In the 1990s, Mr Lee led the expansion of the Beca Asia business into Indonesia, Myanmar and Malaysia, and in the 2000s, into China. His international work experience also includes Vietnam, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea.

Mr. Lee is a Board Member of the Building and Construction Authority and the Professional Engineers Board. He currently chairs a number of industry committees, including the BCA Green Mark Advisory Committee which oversees the benchmarks for green building awards in Singapore; the Technical Evaluation Panel for Ministry of National Development’s S$50m R&D fund for applied research into environmentally sustainable technologies in construction and co-chairs the BCA International Panel of Experts for Sustainability in the Built Environment.

Tony is Victoria's Building and Plumbing Industry Commissioner - roles in which he is responsible for regulating the state's $25Bn building and plumbing systems and advising the Minister for Planning on all building control and plumbing industry matters. He is also Chair of the World Green Building Council and Chair of the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA). Over the past decade Tony has been a leader of the national and international sustainability debate, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, advocating sustainable building as a means of reducing greenhouse emissions whilst improving economic growth and creating green jobs. As a member of the Australian Building Codes Board, Tony has overseen the implementation of new energy-efficiency standards into the national building code. He continues to play a key role in the transformation of the Australian property market to sustainable practices. Tony is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Architects and a Victorian Fellow of the Institute of Public Administration Australia. He is a past Chairman and Director of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival – Australia’s largest arts festival. In 2009 he received the Australian Financial Review’s ‘True Leadership’ Award and in March 2010 he received the inaugural ‘Leadership in Sustainability’ Award from the Australian Institute of Architects.

David Johnson, Director of William McDonough + Partners’ West Coast studio, is an accomplished designer who has demonstrated exceptional leadership during his 25-year career. He has directed teams from concept design through client occupancy on an array of technically challenging and programmatically intricate projects in the U.S. and abroad. David’s portfolio includes planning, interiors, sustainability consulting and architectural design for a range of large-scale international urban planning projects and commercial and institutional buildings. The firm’s San Francisco studio is engaged in a number of Cradle to Cradle-inspired design and consulting projects, including a long-range master plan for the growth of Recology (formerly Norcal Waste Systems); Phase One of the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay. David was also responsible for leading the firms consulting work to the City of San Francisco for the Treasure Island Sustainability Guidelines; the State of California, Department of Conservation Sustainability Principles; and a far-reaching consultation to PG&E to assist them define their Sustainable Community Initiative.

Mr. Odell is Director of HOK’s Science and Technology group. He has 30 years experience in architecture and laboratory design. He has been a Principal-in-Charge and lead designer for some of HOK’s largest projects. His work has received numerous awards and has been frequently published. Mr. Odell is also a leader in HOK’s sustainable design effort and is a frequent speaker on architectural and environmental issues throughout the world. He formed the HOK Sustainable group in the early 1990s, helped get the US Green Building Council started and helped develop the first two versions of LEED. He coauthored the HOK Guide to Sustainable Design. His most recent project, the King Abdullah University for Science and Technology, earned LEED Platinum making it the first such project in Saudi Arabia and the largest LEED Platinum project in the world. Mr. Odell serves on the HOK Design Board as well as the HOK Board of Directors.

Clay Nesler is the Vice President, Global Energy and Sustainability for the Building Efficiency business of Johnson Controls. In this role, he is responsible for overall energy and sustainability strategy, policy, programs, innovation and communications on a global basis. He is also a member of the Johnson Controls sustainability leadership team responsible for setting overall sustainability strategy and policy across the corporation.

Since joining Johnson Controls in 1983, Clay has held a variety of leadership positions in technology, new product development, marketing and strategy in both the United States and Europe. He has been active in ASHRAE as an author, speaker and technical committee chair. Clay serves on the Wisconsin Governor's Task Force on Global Warming, the Energy Efficiency Forum Executive Council, the Leadership Group of the National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency and the Advisory Committee for the Climate Registry.

Clay received his BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is listed as a co-inventor on ten U.S. Patents. He is the inventor of the award-winning Solutions Navigator ™ collaborative planning tool used by hundreds of organizations around the world to support sustainability, technology and infrastructure planning efforts.

Mr Allen Ang is Assistant General Manager of Projects Division of City Developments Limited (CDL), a Singapore listed international property and hotel conglomerate involved in real estate development and investment, hotel ownership and management.  Allen brings with him over 10 years of real estate management and property development.

At CDL, he is involved in creating spaces and defining lifestyle through management of the sustainability and friendly-built environment aspects of both commercial and residential developments.  With Allen’s contributions, CDL is the inaugural winner of the BCA Green Mark Champion Award in 2008 and the first and only Platinum winner of the BCA Built Environment Leadership Award.

Romilly Madew is an experienced green building advocate, whose achievements include:
• A lead negotiator in the ground-breaking agreement to develop an international common carbon metric for buildings.
• Chairs the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council (ASBEC) Cities of the Future and Sustainable Framework task groups; member of the Climate Change and Distributed Resources task groups.
• Steering committee member of the Built Environment Meets Parliament (BEMP) initiative and the Business Leaders Forum on Sustainable Development.
• Chair of the Council Development Committee for the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC), the international umbrella organisation of green building councils; committee member of the WorldGBC International Policy Task group.
• Member of the Australian Government’s Built Environment Sustainability Roundtable.
• Lead role in establishing the WorldGBC’s Asia Pacific Green Building Network.
• National winner of the Telstra Business Women’s Awards 2009 (Community and Government).
• Ambassador for the 1 million women campaign to engage Australian women to take practical action on climate change.

Romilly lives on the Northern Beaches, Sydney, with her husband and three children.

Other achievements include:
• Former board member of the ACT Government’s Land Development Agency.
• Former Executive Director of the ACT Division of the Property Council of Australia, as well as the Council’s National Executive Director of Sustainability.
• Represented the GBCA at the Australian Government’s Australia 2020 Summit.
• Involved in the development of the 2006 Sustainable Building Pathways report.
• Author of the Dollars and Sense of Green Buildings 2006.
• Included in the ABC Carbon 50 list of Australia’s most influential advocates for climate change awareness and action.

Notes on the Green Building Council of Australia: The GBCA was established in 2002 to develop a sustainable property industry in Australia and drive the adoption of green building practices. The GBCA has more than 850 member companies and operates Australia’s only national voluntary comprehensive environmental rating system for buildings - Green Star. Since 2008, the GBCA has broadened its focus to support the development of green building councils in the Asia Pacific region.

Er Lau is currently the Managing Director of the HDB Building Research Institute (BRI).Prior to this appointment he was Deputy CEO (Building). The HDB BRI is the research arm of HDB and it envisioned to be the global leader in housing research, innovations and solutions for a sustainable living environment.

Er Lau is credited for the development and implementation of prefabrication and precast technologies that played a key role in ensuring the overall success of Singapore’s public housing programme. He also spearheaded the push to upgrade the local construction industry through the extensive use of these innovative prefabrication and precast design and construction methods for the development of high-rise buildings. As a result of these, HDB 's construction site labour productivity is about 3 times higher than the private sector.

Under his dynamic leadership, HDB won many international and prestigious awards e.g. American Concrete Institute Award for Concrete Excellence in 1994, ASEAN Engineering Award in 1994 and 2001 and IES Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2008. In addition, HDB also bagged the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (ROSPA) Award for Excellence in Site Safety Performance (UK), numerous Best Buildable, Construction Excellence Awards, Platinum Green Award from BCA.

In his professional fraternity, Er Lau is a Registered Professional Engineer, a Chartered Engineer as well as an Accredited Checker. He is currently the President of the Professional Engineers Board (PEB), Fellow of the Institute of Engineers (Singapore), Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers (UK) and Fellow of the Institute of Structural Engineers (UK). In 2004, Er Lau was specially appointed by the Minister of Manpower to be one of the assessors of the Committee of Inquiry formed to look into the incident at the MRT circle line worksite that led to the collapse of the Nicoll Highway on 20 April 2004.The Committee's report has provided the blue-print to strengthen the whole safety system for the construction industry.

Er Lau has been conferred several local and international awards such as the Star Award in 1999 by PSB for significant contribution in the Singapore National Standardisation Programme, the Standards Council Merit Award in 2000 by PSB for substantial contribution towards the development of standards and promotion of standardisation programme in Singapore, the United Kingdom Derrington Construction Award in 2001 for technical excellence in prefabrication for Public Housing Upgrading and the NUS Engineering Faculty’s Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award (2003) for his contribution to engineering development in Singapore.

Er Lau has published several books eg ‘Blueprint of Successes for Public Housing' and “The Green Housing Book”. This first book documented a complete picture for the entire building life cycle performance. It begins from design stage to construction stage, proceeds to maintenance stage and leads on to research and development. R&D will then provide new inputs back into the cycle and elevate the entire process to a higher platform and this cycle continues as a spiral of excellence. The second book is a collation of HDB's green efforts, experience and knowledge in designing environmental sustainable development. He believes in sharing the knowledge with the industry.

For the past 10 years, Cate has been actively involved in the design, planning and management of sustainability strategies across both the public and private sectors.

As the Head of Sustainability for Lend Lease’s Australian Businesses, Cate is responsible for managing the implementation of sustainability across all the Lend Lease Australian businesses, including Investment Management, Retail and Communities, Bovis Lend Lease, Lend Lease Development, Delfin Lend Lease, Vivas Lend Lease and the Retirement By Design and Lend Lease Primelife businesses, empowering and engaging her team of Sustainability Managers and the businesses in demonstrating the value proposition of sustainable property development, management and investment, which in the current economic environment, has never been more critical or made more business sense.

Cate’s role builds upon her previous appointments as the Head of Sustainability for Lend Lease’s Asia Pacific Investment, Management and Development Businesses and as the Sustainability Manager for the Investment Management business of Lend Lease, in which Cate was responsible for driving the strategic implementation of sustainability across new and existing wholesale funds globally (Aus, Asia, UK and US), contributing to the achievement of the Lend Lease vision to become a sustainable organisation.

Previously, as Associate Director ESD at Hyder Consulting, Cate was responsible for building the Melbourne Sustainable Design Group and the coordination of multi-disciplined teams across Hyder’s Australian Offices, providing sustainability consultancy services for built environment projects around Australia. Her work prior to that with Victorian local and State Government resulted in the development and implementation of several key initiatives, including the Doncaster Hill Sustainability Guidelines and the Moreland STEPS and Sustainable Design Scorecard.

Cate is an active participant of the new Green Building Council of Australia’s Asia Pacific Committee, the Property Council of Australia’s National Sustainability Roundtable and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative Property Working Group, developing resources to facilitate sustainable responsible investment globally.

Cate was also announced as a winner of the 2009 Australian Financial Review - BOSS Magazine Young Executive of the Year Award. http://www.afrboss.com.au/youngexec.aspx

Bruce is a Town and Regional Planner (Wits) and MBA (UCT’s GSB) by training. He spent several years in the town planning profession, moved into housing and property development, and then into property asset management and corporate strategy. Later, he co-founded Spire Property Services and assembled Paramount Property Fund where he was an Executive Director, listing it on the JSE in 2001. He is currently Managing Director of Spire Property Group, which provides property management services to private clients.

From his involvement in some significant development projects, Bruce recognised that the lack of knowledge about green building in SA was limiting our efforts in terms of global warming and international best practice and, after meetings with the Green Building Council of Australia, agreed to champion an initiative to set up the Green Building Council of SA. Bruce is currently Executive Chairman of the GBCSA, and a director of the World GBC, and sits on the World GBC Executive Committee.

Niclas Svenningsen is the head of the Sustainable United Nations (SUN) at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), based in Paris, France. He is also responsible for UNEP’s work on sustainable buildings and construction, as well as UNEP’s urban program, and sustainable public procurement program. He has a background in civil engineering, environmental law and journalism. He has spent the past 20 years working on various sustainable development issues in the developing world both for UN and as an independent consultant In his free time he is renovating his small house in Sweden where all good and bad ideas for sustainable buildings are tested.

Mrs Sirinthorn Vongsoasup has 20 years of experience with energy conservation in buildings, developing measures to promote energy efficiency and green buildings and establishing standards and labeling for electrical equipment and construction materials.

Trained as a mechanical engineer (B. Eng) with a Masters of Science in Technology of Environmental Management, she also has 10 years of experience in design and engineering preparation for the auto parts industry.

Prof. Wang is currently the Deputy Secretary General of the China Green Building Council （China GBC）and is also the Assistant President of China Academy of Building Research (CABR).

He has been involved with numerous research projects which included research on key technologies for controlling biological contamination and improving indoor environment quality; demonstration projects on application of retrofitting technologies for existing buildings and research on the application of building energy simulation software in the development of energy design code for commercial buildings in China.

Prof. Wang plays a key role in the development of several national codes and evaluation standards for industrial and civil buildings. He has also contributed much effort to the compilation of the Annual Report of China Green Building from 2008-2010 and is also the secretary general of the editorial board. He is currently involved with the compiling the list for the 2011 China Green Building Annual Report.

As Senior Vice President of Global Policy and Law, Roger Platt is responsible for managing policy and legal aspects related to the international expansion of the LEED green building certification program. Platt’s role includes managing an global portfolio of policy development relationships, including the World Green Building Council Policy Committee and the United Nations Environment Programme, among others, supporting policy initiatives in countries where LEED is becoming a rating system tool for delivering high performance buildings.

Platt also oversees USGBC’s proactive engagement in U.S. Policy and legislation development among federal and state agencies, on the Hill, in state capitals, city halls and county commissions across the country, as well as through the alliances USGBC has forged with other NGOs and public-private initiatives. This includes advancing USGBC’s views to these constituencies on the benefits of green schools, green affordable housing, sustainable communities, and mitigating the impact of buildings on climate change.

Platt joined USGBC after 15 years as senior vice president and counsel with the Real Estate Roundtable, which represents the leaders of America’s top public and privately owned real estate entities on public environmental and non-profit organizations to advance responsible public policy.

Before joining the Real Estate Roundtable, he was a consultant to President Clinton’s then newly formed Corporation for National and Community Service. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of San Francisco School of Law. He is a member of the California and District of Columbia bar associations and a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), where he chaired the ULI sustainable Development Council form 2001-2004, and current serves as chair of the ULI Responsible Property Investment Council.

Yuko Nishida is a Planner for the Policy planning Division, Bureau of Environment, Tokyo Metropolitan Government (TMG). She is specialized in urban sustainable development issues, currently in charge of policy making regarding climate change.

Prior to her current position, she worked as an Urban Renewal Planner and Coordinator at the Bureau of Construction from 1983 to 1994. She was a researcher at the Institute of in-house Training Institute of Tokyo Metropolitan Government from 1994 to 1998. During this period, she was also a visiting research associate at the United Nations University from 1996 to 1997.

Since 1998, Yuko assumed her current position at the Bureau of Environment. She received her Master in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Harry Verhaar is Senior Director Energy & Climate Change at Philips Lighting, heading the global Energy Efficiency program (also called 'Green Switch').

He has in the past four years been the architect of the lighting strategy on energy and climate change, which has resulted in a pro-active industry position on phasing out of old lighting technologies for street-lighting; office & industry lighting and residential lighting. This program has over the last two years obtained significant global media exposure, and has recently been included in the EU Heads of State declaration on March 9th 2007. The Philips call to phase-out incandescent lighting has generated global support (by the European Commission; the International Energy Agency, and a growing number of countries and states, i.e. Australia, California, EU27, S-Africa, etc.).

Previously Harry Verhaar was responsible for the marketing activities of the professional lamps activities in Europe. Prior to that he has lived for five years in São Paulo Brazil, of which the last two as commercial manager of the professional lighting activities in Latin America. Before that he has held various positions in product marketing management and product and technology development for Philips Lighting in Turnhout, Belgium, and Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Lisa Bate is an Architect, Interior Designer, LEED AP, Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and is the current Chair of the CaGBC. Lisa is a Past President of the Ontario Association of Architects and the only architectural representative to the Canadian National Roundtable for Sustainable Infrastructure. She is a Partner of B+H Architects, a leading Canadian architectural, planning, interior design and landscape architectural practice of over 250 staff headquartered in Toronto with offices in Singapore, Shanghai, Vietnam, India and the UAE. Lisa combines her holistic design skills with extensive experience in directing the momentum of client services and project management from feasibility studies, risk investment analysis to high performance building returns. For 23 years, Lisa has provided design and management services on a broad range of institutional, multi-residential and commercial project types.

Prof. WU, Zhiqiang received his Dr.-Ing degree in 1996 from Technical University of Berlin, Germany. He is now Assistant President of Tongji University, and Chief Planner of World Expo 2010 Shanghai China. He also serves as Co-Chair of International Steering Committee of World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC), Permanent member of UNESCO-UIA World Architectural Education Council, Director of Planning Education Steering Council of China, Vice President of Urban Planning Society of China, Vice Director of China Green Building Council, etc. In 2001, Prof. WU organized 1st World Planning School Congress (WPSC) as general secretary. More than 1000 participants from 46 countries attended the congress. In answer to his proposal, Global planning education Associations Network (GPEAN) together with its website（www.gpean.org）was established at the end of the congress.

As the Chief Planner of the Shanghai Expo, Prof. WU fulfilled full range of site investigations and analysis from topography to existing buildings and constructions with his team members. He has been with interdisciplinary experts working on several research projects including comfort outdoor thermal environment, natural wind field simulation, etc, which intends to experiment the whole site for future urban sustainable development. In order to memorize local industrial culture, he proposed to preserve the plants and facilities of the factories in the expo site with total area of 250000 m2. It is the first time in EXPO history to use preserved buildings as pavilions.

Prof. WU is an active scholar, planner and dedicated educator in the field of architecture and urban planning. Through his professional years, He has always been actively involved with the urban planning and design practice around China and abroad, including New Town Planning of Saint Petersburg, Russia, and Dujiangyan Post-disaster City Reconstruction Plan.

Dan Epstein is Head of Sustainable Development and Regeneration for the Olympic Delivery Authority, where he is responsible for developing and delivering a comprehensive sustainability for the London 2012 Olympics, which aspires to be the greenest Olympics ever.

Dan manages a team which sets targets, provides technical support, and assures all the major construction projects on the Olympic park including major venues, highway, bridge, utility and landscape construction with a total value of £9billion.

Prior to this Dan was Head of Environment for English Partnerships, the UK’s Public Sector Regeneration Company, responsible for disposing of land for large scale urban development. At English Partnerships, Dan was responsible for overseeing the development of policies, strategies and standards for the partnerships development programme of 9000 homes per annum across England.

Dan has been working in the environmental and sustainable development sector since 1984. He started his career in Nepal where he spent 7 years working as a bio-engineer and forester repairing landslides on major road and water projects and teaching Nepalese, Chinese and Indian engineers bio-engineering.

He has also worked in the UK on a number of land reclamation and regeneration schemes in the North of England developing briefs for sustainable buildings, landscape and infrastructure.

Dan has helped establish the sustainability consultants Beyond Green and was the sustainability champion for the growth of Ashford, one of the UK government’s 4 housing growth areas. 

Mr Ang joined BCA on 1Apr 99 and has since then managed various portfolios such as procurement, quality control and assessment, innovation development etc., playing a key role in the Technology Development Division which introduced BCA Green Mark Scheme in 2005 as well as regulations to control the thermal performance of residential buildings.

He is currently heading the Research Division in BCA. Besides overseeing the newly setup Centre for Sustainable Buildings & Construction (BCA’s research arm), he is also responsible for the development and administration of various schemes to promote green buildings; Bonus Floor Area for Green Buildings, S$20million Green Mark Incentive Scheme for new buildings (fully committed already), S$100million Green Mark Scheme for Existing Buildings and $50million MND (Ministry of National Development) Research Fund.

One key research project undertaken was the S$11million Zero Energy Building@BCA Academy – BCA’s flagship R&D project to demonstrate how we could retrofit an existing building into a super efficient building powered by clean solar energy.

Dr. Shinya Tsuda is a Vice President of Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd and is also concurrently the General Manager of Sanyo Electric’s Strategic Business Promotion, R&D and Environmental Management.

In 1988, Dr. Tsuda obtained his Doctorate in Electronic Engineering from Kyoto University, where he first graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in electronic engineering in 1977. He joined Sanyo Electric in 1979 and in October 1998 was appointed General Manager of Sanyo Electric’s New Electronics Materials Department. In the same year, Dr. Tsuda was also appointed as Guest Professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology, a position he held till 2003.

In 2003, Dr. Tsuda was appointed a Vice President of Sanyo Electric and was also concurrently appointed President of Clean Energy Company, a subsidiary of Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. Since then, Dr. Tsuda had held a variety of concurrent positions which included General Manager of Corporate Strategy.

In 2007, Dr. Tsuda was appointed as Guest Professor at the Centre for Advanced Science and Innovation at Osaka University. He will relinquish this position in 2011.

Gregers Reimann graduated in 2001 with a M.Sc. in energy engineering and indoor climate from the Technical University of Denmark incl. studies aboard at the universities UCLA (USA) and UPM (Malaysia). Other work includes building energy efficiency projects and solar projects in Burkina Faso, Ghana – and in the tropical counterpart, arctic Greenland.

Since 2005, Gregers Reimann has been based in Malaysia as a green building consultant for IEN Consultants, working with energy efficiency building projects in the Southeast Asian region – most notably the Zero Energy Office building for the Malaysian Energy Centre. Other projects include sustainable designs for the new Public Mutual Bank (Kuala Lumpur), the Sime Darby HQ (Kuala Lumpur) and the Malaysian Energy Commission Diamond Building (Putrajaya).

Other recent activities include online monitoring and benchmarking of the energy consumption of buildings as well as developing rainwater harvesting simulation software for buildings. Ye Qing has given much keynote speech in the international academic conferences. She has also participated in the national, industrial, provincial and urban standards establishment, such as ”Green Building Evaluation standard”, ”Green Building Design Standard”, etc. Moreover, she has obtained over 30 awards at home and abroad, for example, ”The 2nd Worldwide Young Chinese Architects Award” in 2009 (9 Chinese people awarded in total), and ”Excellent Chinese Contemporary Young Architects”, etc.

Timo Jutzi is currently the General Manager of Styro Stone ICF operations in China. He graduated with a Diploma in Civil Engineering from the University of RWTH Aachen (Germany) and has been involved with the construction industry since graduation.

Timo has worked on several projects, highlights of which were the co-planning of a 7 storey earthquake resistant building with the Nanjing University as well as the co-planning of Active House (producing more energy than it consummates) in Leusden, the Netherlands.

He is fluent in German, English, French and Spanish and is eager for opportunities to improve his command of the Chinese language.

As Asia-Pacific Coordinator of the Industry Target Group Construction, Wilm supports colleagues across the region to strengthen BASF's positioning for the Construction industry and create additional business with modern, sustainable solutions.

Born close to Hamburg in Germany, Wilm holds an MBA of the University of North Carolina USA, and a BA of University of Applied Sciences Ludwigshafen Germany. He started with BASF as a trainee in 1998. After having studied and worked in Germany, USA, Malaysia, India, and Japan, he now lives in Shanghai. In his free time Wilm enjoys golf and travelling.

Sarah Daly is managing director of Heath Avery Architects in Cheltenham, England a post she took up in 2008 after three years of being a Non-Executive Director for the firm. For 21 years prior to this appointment, Sarah was managing director of Delphi Marketing Associates Limited, an international strategic development consultancy she founded a year after graduation, which for the past decade specialised in regeneration, sustainability and the built environment. Sarah has consulted for a wide variety of organisations including M&S, Sainsbury’s and Tesco in the UK; and global manufacturers like NSK Group and Berghaus in Europe and beyond. She has won many national and international awards for both her own business, and client programmes.

Sustainability is at the heart of Heath Avery Architects, both in terms of the operating philosophy and project delivery. As well as driving the business, whilst the architects deliver building solutions, Sarah has built a growing reputation for helping organisations understand the transformation process which is inherent in creating a sustainable business – an essential component of occupying sustainable buildings! She has been published in many journals and books, presents at international seminars and conferences as well as undertaking project work for, and within, organisations which need to address complex sustainability and estate issues.

Sarah’s work has been strongly endorsed by eminent international environmentalist, Jonathan Porritt, who stated that Heath Avery’s ‘holistic approach’ to the organisation and its buildings, is the way forward. Sarah and Jonathon are currently working together on programmes to influence greening up the NHS – the biggest employer in Europe - by illustrating multiple paybacks.

Ms. Ye Qing is the First-Grade Registered Architect and Professor-level senior engineer with the special allowance paid by Shenzhen government. Currently she is the Dean of Shenzhen Institute of Building Research (IBR). Ms. Ye Qing has more than 20 social titles, including Member of Standing Committee of the Fifth Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress, Chinese Member of Architecture and Renewable Energy Sources WP of Union of International Architect (UIA), Member of Sustainable Development Committee of Architects Regional Council Asia, Secretary General of Ecological City Research Committee of Chinese Society of Urban Studies, and President of Shenzhen Green Building Association, and so on. Under the mission of ”realising a healthy, economical, efficient, sustainable green living environment”, she has led IBR developing from a small local unit to a national-level high-tech corporation with over a hundred million revenue.

Ye Qing has been devoting herself to the field of green building and ecological city for more than 10 years, and has become quite accomplished. She proposed the theory of “Sharing Design”, and accomplished many cases directed by this theory. One of the typical cases is the IBR Building, which is the first national 3-Star (the highest level) green building and low energy consumption building demonstration project.

Ye Qing has given much keynote speech in the international academic conferences. She has also participated in the national, industrial, provincial and urban standards establishment, such as ”Green Building Evaluation standard”, ”Green Building Design Standard”, etc. Moreover, she has obtained over 30 awards at home and abroad, for example, ”The 2nd Worldwide Young Chinese Architects Award” in 2009 (9 Chinese people awarded in total), and ”Excellent Chinese Contemporary Young Architects”, etc.

Dr. Yun-Li Charles Li received his Ph. D. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute under Prof. Fred Schubert’s advice in 2003. His research work focused on Gallium Nitride (GaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and solid state lighting (SSL) applications.

Dr. Li joined Genesis Photonics, Inc (GPI) in 2008. He is currently in charge of R&D division of GPI. His research interests focus on GaN material and device applications. In addition, he is also interested in developing the solid state lighting system with multi-LED chips, so called “Smart Lighting System”. Smart lighting system takes advantages of the controllability of spectrum from multi-LED illumination sources. This system has possibility of utilisation in different illumination systems with very high luminous efficiencies. Dr. Li has published more than 20 journal publications and filed more than 20 patents in LED related field.

Elaina Olivia Chong is the CEO of Real Kaiten Pte Ltd, a consultancy helmed by management strategists committed to sustainable urbanization and rural development through the application of affordable clean technologies. A government scholar turned entrepreneur, Elaina graduated with a 1st Class Honors in Management from the University of Surrey with an academic thesis in the areas of Sustainable Development and EcoTourism Management. In areas of business expansion, market development and investment relations, Elaina has over 14 years of consulting experience to an international client base ranging from SMEs to MNCs, listed companies and government agencies. Elaina is a Past President of the Rotary Club of Singapore South, an EXCO member of the Singapore Young Peoples’ Action Party, member of Singapore Mensa Society and volunteers in various community & non-profit organizations.

Dr. Romel M. Carlos has more than 15 years of valuable experience in the field of sustainable energy and environment in Southeast Asia particularly in renewable energy and energy efficiency, cogeneration and decentralized energy systems, and carbon finance.

He spent most of his professional years in Bangkok, Thailand while earning his MBA degree and his PhD in Management of Technology at the Asian Institute of Technology.

After years of working abroad, Dr. Carlos returned to the Philippines in 2008 to join IFC and play an important role in the delivery of the Philippine Sustainable Energy Finance Program. He currently manages the implementation of the activities of the growing SEF program.

As Director of SOM China, Silas Chiow is responsible for spearheading SOM’s business strategies in Greater China and facilitating its architecture and planning projects throughout the mainland. Over the last 21 years, Silas’ expertise as an architect has encompassed urban planning and project management to all project types—including: mixed-use developments, offices, hotels, retail, residential, convention centers and institutions.

Johannes joined KONE after receiving his master’s degree in Engineering from the Polytechnical University of Delft in the Netherlands in 1977. He started in R&D as a designer and became a design team leader in 1978. He progressed to Project Manager in R&D in 1980. In 1986 he became the first Elevator System Manager in R&D. In 1988 he was nominated the Engineering Manager of the KONE High Rise Centre. In 1998 he joined the new KONE Major Project Organisation in the function as Director, Products & Technology. In the reorganisation of KONE Major Project organisation in the beginning of 2009 he was nominated Director, Head of Technology.

Due to his wide technical expertise Johannes functions as the senior technical expert in Major Projects. His expertise is used to minimise both the client’s project risks and KONE’s project risks to a minimum. Johannes is a member of the steering committee of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) and a member on several technical workgroups of the European Elevator Code committee preparing new revisions and interpretations on EN81-1 and EN81-2.

Johannes has eleven years of experience in R&D followed by 22 years of co-ordination with R&D and holds over 500 different patents. He is an expert in traffic flow in large building complexes as well as ride comfort for elevators. Recognised as a senior elevator technology expert in the elevator world, Johannes has and received several awards and mentions for his work. He has also been involved in many of the world’s tallest and largest buildings.

Frank Phuan is a founding member of Sunseap Enterprises Pte Ltd and is in charge of business development and responsible for more than 75 operators and factory workers in the Singapore and Malaysia plant. Sunseap Enterprises is a vertically integrated mono/poly crystalline modules manufacturer and system integrator in Singapore since 2000.

Frank is also involved in the installation of the first Solar Grid-connected system in Singapore. The 14.5KW roof-top system in the German European School has generated 85MW of power since Mar 2006.

Together with his family, Frank also has combined more than 25 years of experience in solar power industry. Frank graduated from Materials Engineering, NTU with Honors.

Mr Liak is the Chief Executive Officer of Alexandra Health, which will provide healthcare services for some 700,000 people living in the north of Singapore.  Alexandra Health manages the new Khoo Teck Puat Hospital which began full operations in 2010. Since its inception, Mr Liak has been fully involved in the planning and commissioning of the new general hospital. Prior to this, Mr Liak was also the CEO of Alexandra Hospital, a post that he held for a decade from October 2000 to August 2010.

A pharmacist by training, he has been involved in the restructuring of major hospitals since early 1985.  Under his leadership and guidance in the restructuring of Alexandra Hospital, the performance of the hospital has turned around and received a string of illustrious awards.

A man of many hats, Mr Liak serves on the boards of NTUC First Campus, NTUC Healthcare, Pathlight School, NorthLight School and The Advisory Panel of the School of Information Systems at the Singapore Management University.

Mr Liak is the Chairman of Water Networks, The Advisory Board of Strategic Technology Management Institute of NUS and an active Councillor in the South West Community Development Council and Chairman of the Environment & Health Functional Committee. He also sits on the committees of the Singapore Management University’s Institute of Service Excellence (ISES) Governing Council, and Community Chest.

He holds an MBA and a BSc (Pharmacy) from the National University of Singapore and MSc (Pharmaceutical Sciences) from the University of Aston, Birmingham, UK.  He was awarded The Donald C. Brodie Award for Education in 2000, NTUC May Day Award in 2003, The Health Leader Excellence Award in 2004, Friend of IT-IT Leader Awards in 2006 and the Service to Education Award in 2007.

Mr Liak enjoys running, reading and gardening.

Sarah Graham is a Founding Partner of agps architecture in Los Angeles and Zurich. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in Art History and Design, a Masters of Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design, and also attended the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich).

Sarah Graham has had extensive teaching experience. She has been a design critic at various schools of architecture, was Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Visiting Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Nanjing University.

She began her professional career as an architect in Boston in 1982. She co-founded Angélil/Graham Architecture, adding two additional partners to form Angélil/Graham/Pfenninger/Scholl (agps architecture) in 1990.

Her completed work includes an experimental house in the Hollywood Hills, lunch shelters for the Los Angeles Unified School District, the Esslingen Town Center with light-rail station in Zurich, the Children’s Museum of Los Angeles, a horse ranch in Topanga Canyon, and the Portland Aerial Tram in Portland, Oregon.

Sarah Graham has been the recipient of several honors and awards, including the 2008 Design Award “Honor Award for Architecture” from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for the Portland Aerial Tram project, the “Next LA Award” for the Children’s Museum of Los Angeles from the AIA in 2002, and the “Next LA Award” for Herzo Base with Adidas “World of Sports” 2000 in Germany.

Her work has been published in many international journals, including Domus, Architectural Review, Global Architecture, Architectural Record, archithese, Detail, Summa+, T+A, and Houses and Architecture.

Mann has 18 years of property industry experience and has worked across the various spectrum of the property sector including a number of high profile strategic projects across Asia Pacific. He has strong operational skills and expertise of incorporating a personal and professional sustainability approach across all parts of the property lifecycle from construction to property & asset management to real estate investments and fund strategies.

As Head of Sustainability for Lend Lease in Asia, Mann is responsible for driving Lend Lease’s sustainability philosophy of “Every Action Adds Up” and embraces the challenge in optimizing multi-disciplinary project outcomes that is not only sustainable but also meets the required commercial and business aspirations of all key stakeholders be they owners, investors, developers, managers, services and/or business partners. Mann is also responsible for driving the commercialization of sustainability as part of Lend Lease new business growth strategy across Asia.

A respected and well-connected figure in the construction industry, Mr Ng has steered Squire Mech, a leading M&E engineering consultancy company in Singapore with overseas branch offices in Shanghai, Beijing and Chengdu, Kuala Lumpur) and Ho Chi Minh and also a strong presence in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, beyond just providing professional engineering services to be a leading industry player that incorporates innovative and cost effective sustainability solutions for the built environment, prescribing the reduction of energy, waste and water usage. He is a keen advocate in the continuous training of professionals and instilling awareness in environmental sustainability in his firm as well as in the industry.

Squire Mech is certified in environmental management under ISO 14000 since 2004.

With the introduction of the Green Mark Scheme by the Building and Construction Authority in 2005, he has been instrumental in Squire Mech to achieve the first Built Environment Leadership Award (Gold) in 2009 and Squire Mech is the current leading M&E Consulting firm in Green Mark awards with over 10 projects rated Green Mark Gold Plus or Platinum and 13 projects rated Green Mark Gold.

He is one of the founding Board Members of the Singapore Green Building Council and is currently its Hon Gen Secretary.

Audrey Perez is a Civil Professional Engineer graduated from Ecole Special des Travaux Publics (ESTP) in Paris. She joined Bouygues, Dragages Singapore’s Mother Company in 1994. She was transferred to Singapore in 1995 where she worked on Construction Projects, from site engineer until project manager. She covered Procurement, Design, Tendering, Construction and hand-over of milestone projects for Dragages such as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, The Fullerton Hotel, The Ladyhill-Limited Edition residences and several other projects. In 2002, she was called to join the management team to head two departments, Quality-Safety-Environmental and Completed Projects. She is also the head of Sustainable Development for Dragages Singapore.

In addition, she takes over cases from projects when technical and legal issues are interlinked to prevent disputes and reach a settlement.

Lead auditor for Dragages, she audits as well for Bouygues Construction where her mission is to audit other subsidiaries and/or large overseas projects.

Throughout her corporate work, she endeavors to participate intensively to several programs set up by the BCA and MOM, writes articles about construction technical and other aspect for them and speaks regularly in few of their training programs, courses and seminars. She speaks as well as for HDB, PSB and WSHC. She writes in several publications of the construction sector too.

In 2007, she successfully completed the NUS-Faculty of Law Graduate Certificate for International Arbitration. Audrey is a Fellow and Council Member of the SIArb and Council Member of the Society of Construction Law (“SCL”). She is a Lecturer for the SCL and participates actively to various committees at both SIArb and SCL to help bridging the gap between Construction Law and in-situ Construction challenges.

For the past quarter century, Lee Eng Lock has been conducting energy audits, retrofits, and designing and building extremely energy efficient buildings and mechanical systems. He is also the pioneer in very accurate long term measurement and monitoring for mechanical plants.

The 1985 HVAC system for AT&T Consumer Products Pte Ltd in Kampong Ubi achieved what is believed to be the world record for combined air and water side performance, at better than 0.70 kW/ton for air handlers, fan coils, chillers, pumps, and cooling towers.

Visiting scientists from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were extremely impressed with the very precise monitoring and trending at one-minute intervals for all parameters, using software written in Singapore, with Laboratory grade instrumentation, and hand calibration of sensors using internationally recognised fundamental standards for thermometry.

This led to involvement in further R&D projects in USA funded by the US Department of Energy and the California Energy Commission, which anyone can read by googling for "imds + lbl".  Two of the projects were put on the internet for professionals to study and analyse in real-time.

For 3 years in the late 1990s, he was the only overseas engineer invited to sit on the IPMVP technical committee of the US Department of Energy.

His particular specialty is in high performance clean rooms and semiconductor wafer fabs, doing design build projects in Asia and USA, and energy audits and design charrettes for major semicon manufacturers such as STMicro worldwide, Texas Instruments USA, Sony Semiconductor in Kokubu, Japan, Epson semiconductor in Sakata, Japan, Sanyo in Gifu, Japan, the Hsinchu Science Park wafer fabs for the Ministry of Energy in Taiwan, and also the Chiang Kai Shek Airport in Taipei.

Other interesting workshops and audits were conducted for Shell Oil for their most efficient refinery in Kolding in Denmark, the LNG plant in Karratha in Western Australia, GTL plant in Qatar, deep mines in South Africa for coal, diamonds and gold for Anglo American mining corporation, and also the world's first LEED rated semiconductor factory in Richardson, Texas for Texas Instruments.

He has also done a workshop several months ago for the next LEED rated semicon factory for Texas Instruments in Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines, which will have the world's most efficient chiller plant and probably also test and burn in rooms.

In 1994, he was awarded the Association of Energy Engineers USA Energy Project of the year for the Western Digital factory in Kuala Lumpur, benchmarked as the most efficient of any disk drive factory in the world, including all services such as vacuum, compressed air, class 10 clean rooms, process cooling, and chiller plant.

In January 2009, he was invited by LBNL to deliver a distinguished lecture on energy efficiency for buildings.  The lecture titled “Negawatts for Building: Observations from the Past 25 years” was uploaded on Youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFWXMmmiihk.

Closer to home, he has also designed and built and retrofitted chiller plants including the Grand Hyatt Singapore, SingPost Centre, Galen Building, all at better than 35% ROI, with high accuracy web based monitoring at one minute, and guaranteed performance contracts with measured performance at 0.57 kW/ton averages.

He would like to be remembered as the first engineer to, so to speak, break the four minute mile - i.e.  incorporate the concept of high accuracy online real-time M&V at state of the art efficiencies with guaranteed performance for the life of the plant.

An international trainer, speaker and business man, Matthias Gelber came in ahead of 600 other participants from around the world to emerge as the champion in the annual award for Greenest Person on the Planet by 3rd Whale.com in Canada in 2008. Put simply, Matthias’s passion is in preserving the natural environment – a passion that has seen him focus on environmental management and CSR for the last 15 years.

Earning a Masters in Environmental Science in the United Kingdom, Matthias went on to start his own environmental consulting company dealing with sustainability issues relating to the natural environment of the planet. He served in the past as a member on the board of INEM (the International Network of Environmental Management) and the ARPSCP (the Asian Pacific Roundtable of Sustainable Consumption and Cleaner Production), Matthias was as well named one of the Men of the Year in Malaysia by Clive Magazine.

Speaking and chairing regularly at international events in the fields of Construction, Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental issues, Matthias has been working the last few years with the building industry to develop practical strategies for effective environmental and sustainability strategies and systems.Matthias is a member of the Green Building Council Philippines and IISBE, the International Initiative for Sustainable Built Environments.

The co-founder of Maleki GmbH, specializing in low carbon footprint and high performance building materials,Matthias also initiated Eco Warriors Malaysia, a Facebook group delivering practical environmental action, such as peat forest rehabilitation and condo waste recycling for a better Earth.

Prof. Jason Pomeroy is an award winning architect, master planner and director of International multi-disciplinary design practice, Broadway Malyan. He is an acknowledged expert in the field of sustainability and vertical urbanism and employs these skills in both practice and the lecture theatre. His research at Cambridge considered the sky court as an alternative civic space within high density urban environments for the 21st century. In addition to co-directing the Singapore office, he lectures and publishes widely, and is adjunct research fellow of Institut Sultan Iskandar; visiting professor of Mapua Institute of Technology, University Technology Malaysia and Special Professor to Nottingham University. He also sits on the editorial board of the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. He is the author of the Idea House, the first carbon zero house in South East Asia, and the masterplanner for the Vision Valley, Malaysia.

Dr Ho is the Technical Director of Samwoh Corporation, a leading integrated construction and sustainable recycling company. He is a registered Professional Engineer of Singapore and Malaysia and a Chartered Engineer of UK.

Dr Ho has 20 years of diversified experience in civil and environmental engineering. He is actively involved in R&D works on efficient utilization of waste materials, sustainable construction and pavement engineering. He has authored over 50 technical papers, speaking regularly at conferences and seminars. He is the Past President of Singapore Concrete Institute and presently he is the First-Vice President of Singapore Contractors Association. In his career, he has received a number of awards in recognition of his meritorious contributions to the works that he has involved.

Dr Sun Qiqing graduated from The University of Science and Technology of China in 1976 and obtained his PhD in the University of Cambridge and is a post-doctoral research associate in its Cavendish Laboratory. Dr Sun is trained in the area of experimental mechanics and mechanical properties of materials. He has 30 years of working experience in the industry.

Dr. Sun is currently Assistant Vice President of Mechanical Centre, Industry Service in TÜV SÜD PSB Singapore. In this capacity, he oversees the Building and Acoustics Group, providing mechanical and acoustical testing for building products, and developing new testing services for the industry. He is a member of mechanical task force of Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC) and also a member of the Occupational Health Best Practices Award Committee (Ministry of Manpower).

His main area of expertise is in Mechanical testing of building materials & products, which includes Acoustics, Vibration and Impact Dynamics. He also specialises in explosion mechanics, fluid mechanics, thermodynamics and mechanical ventilation.

Mr Beh Lean Hooi is the Assistant Vice President with Ascendas Services Pte Ltd. Heading the Mechanical & Electrical (M&E) Engineering Section in Ascendas, his key roles and responsibilities include providing M&E engineering consultancy and technical support to Ascendas’ various business operations. Lean Hooi also champions the green and energy efficiency programmes and projects in the company.

Lean Hooi has 20 years of working experience in M&E Engineering fields, particularly in design, construction, and operations of M&E services in commercial and industrial buildings and other specific facilities such as manufacturing plants, clean-rooms, laboratories and data centres.

Lean Hooi is a Singapore Certified Energy Manager (SCEM at Professional level) registered with Institution of Engineers Singapore (IES) and a Certified Green Mark Manager with Building and Construction Authority (BCA). He holds a Bachelor Degree (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Queensland, Australia

Stefan Heuss is Head of the Center of Competence for Energy Efficiency of TÜV SÜD. He is responsible for product management and product development of energy efficiency products and directs interdisciplinary projects for TÜV SÜD Industry Services in the building sector.

After several leadership positions in the producing industry in Europe, with the German Energy Agency and after working as a consultant and assistant lecturer at the Technical University of Munich, Stefan joined TÜV SÜD Industry Services in 2009. He has been active in standardization and association committees and has experience in ecolabelling of construction products. He has done several publications on energy efficiency, sustainability and thermal physiology.

Stefan received his doctor´s degree in Architectural Engineering from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) for a work on bi-functional, façade-integrated solar air heaters. He received his diploma degree after studies of Mechanical and Process Engineering at TUM.