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Conference Program - Thursday, 24th September 2009

8.00am	Registration
Session 1	Plenary
9.05am - 9.30am	Welcome Sidonie Carpenter, President, Green Roofs Australia
9.00am - 9.30am	Opening Address: Professor Nigel Stork Head of Department of Resource Management and Geography, University of Melbourne
9.30am - 10.30am	Keynote Presentation: Green Roofs from Sheffield UK Nigel Dunnett, Reader in Urban Horticulture, Director, The Green Roof Centre, Department of Landscape, University of Sheffield
10.30am - 11.00am	Morning Tea
Session 2	Green Roof - Design & Construction for Public Buildings	Green Roof - Research
11.00am - 11.30am	Green Roofs and Government – How They Can Work Together Graeme Hopkins, Director, Fifth Creek Studio Living Architecture	The Effect of Subsoil Organic Matter on Soil Aeration on Green Roofs. Is There Such a Thing as Safe Organic Matter at Depth? Penelope Smith, Horticulturalist & Marketing Manager, The Hills Bark Blower
11.30am - 12.00pm	Designing a Public Green Roof and Wall Amy Reed, Horticulturist, HASSELL & Timothy Horton, Project Team Leader, Adelaide Zoo	Old Kiwi Roofs... Built to Make Money! Graham Cleary, Owner, Natural Habitat NZ
12.00pm - 12.30pm	Roofs, Walls and Animals Jeff Lugg, Head Curator, Adelaide Zoo	Life and Death on the Roof: Plant Performance Trials for Extensive Green Roofs in Melbourne Dr Nick Williams, Plant Ecologist, University of Melbourne
12.30pm - 1.30pm	Lunch
Session 3	Green Roof - Urban Implementation	Green Roof - Design & Construction with Boundaries
1.30pm - 2.00pm	Green Walls – How? Mark Paul, Horticulturalist and Marine Biologist, Ex-Parrot Pty Ltd	The Venny – Pitfalls and Pleasures of an Extensive Green Roof in the Making (joint presentation between the City of Melbourne and the University of Melbourne) Ralph Webster Senior Architect and Urban Designer City of Melbourne & John Rayner, Lecturer, Urban Horticulture, Burnley Campus University of Melbourne
2.00pm - 2.30pm	Committee For Melbourne - Future Focus Group Growing Up - The Blueprint to Green Roof Melbourne Tiffany Crawford, Corporate Solicitor, City of Melbourne and Nic Culnane, Project Director, VicUrban
2.30pm - 3.00pm	Head for the Hill Merran and Paul Porjazoski, Directors, BENT Architecture	Retrofitting a Green Roof, at City of Monash, Melbourne Robyn Mitchell, Urban Designer/Landscape Architect, City of Monash
3.00pm - 3.30pm	Afternoon Tea
Session 4	Plenary
3.30pm - 4.30pm	Panel Discussion
4.30pm	Conference Close
7.00pm - 11.00pm	Conference Dinner at Tjanabi Restaurant, Federation Square Flinders Street, Melbourne

The Green Roofs Australia 2009 gathering was a great success, with excellent displays produced by commercial sponsors, informative presentations on local and international green infrastructure projects, design, growing media and policy workshops and more than 150 delegates attending the various conference events over three days. Many thanks to all who participated and contributed to this very successful annual event.

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Green Roofs Australia Conference 2009 | 23-25 September 2009 | Burnley Campus, The University of Melbourne
Conference website: www.greenroofsconference.com.au
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