Green Roof Conference 2008
Thursday 19^th June 2008

8.30am – 9.00am

           WELCOME ADDRESS

9.00am – 10.00am

Session 1 - Key Note Address

The Evolving Green Roof: Meeting the New Urban Challenges

Nigel Dunnett – Director

 The Green Roof Centre, Department of Landscape
University of Sheffield

10.00 – 10.30am

Morning Tea

10.30am – 11.00am

Session 2

Growing Green Roofs – Substrates Are Not Soils!

Kirsten Raynor, John Rayner and Dr Nicholas Williams

Department of Resource Management and Geography

Graduate School of Land and Environment
The University of Melbourne

11.00am – 11.30pm

Session 3

Green Roof Solves Loud Noise Problem for Tasmania University Union.

David Button – Director

JAWSARCHITECTS

11.30pm – 12.00pm

Session 4

South Australian Government incentive program: Bushtops for Green Roofs and Walls

Graeme Hopkins
Principal Urban Designer

 Planning SA

12.00pm – 1.30pm

Lunch

1.30pm  - 2.00pm

Session 5

Robyn Simcock

Landcare Research
Tamaki Campus University of Auckland

2.00pm – 2.30pm

2.30pm – 3.00pm

Session 7

Management and Maintenance of the World’s Two Largest Green Roofs.

Geoffrey Wilson - Immediate Past President 

Green Roofs Australia

3.00pm – 3.30pm

Afternoon Tea

3.30pm – 4.00pm

Session 8

Green Roofs for a Brown Land?

Research Required to Develop a Successful Australian Industry

Dr Nicholas Williams, John Rayner and Kirsten Raynor

Department of Resource Management and Geography

Graduate School of Land and Environment
The University of Melbourne

4.00pm – 4.30pm

Session 9

Green Roofs and the Water Sensitive City

Alan Hoban
Manager - Water by Design
The Sustainable Urban Water Capacity Building Program of the
SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership

4.30pm – 5.00pm

Session 10 – Key Note Address

De-Bunking Market Myths through Performance Based Design

Rick Buist – President

BIOROOF SYSTEMS INC.

6.00pm – 9.00pm

Welcome Reception