Program

Building Performance: Imagination to Reality
Session 1 \| Setting the Scene \| 12pm AEST, 29 July 2025 Session 1 will provide context for the series with an outlook of Building Performance in the Australian and New Zealand, and comparing this to an international perspective. We will also provide a background to the report that inspired the reimagination of building performance globally towards health and resilience. Confirmed Presentations:
	Inspiring a new reality Fiona will share insights from the Building Performance Reimagined report that inspired this building performance series.
Fiona Cousins, Immediate Past President, CIBSE
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Session 2 \| Connectedness \| 12pm AEST, 5 August 2025 Session 2 will explore the first of four building performance metrics identified to help buildings shift towards resilience using exemplar case studies as a guide. Specifically, presentations identify and detail projects that exemplify the connectedness of services, the grid and the importance of designing opportunities for human connectedness. Confirmed Presentations:
	Human and Emotional Connectivity and Building Performance
Annie Tennant, Director, Design and Place, NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment
Presentation 2	Grid Interconnectivity tbc
Presentation 3	Services Connectivity tbc
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Session 3 \| Emergence \| 12pm AEST, 12 August 2025 Session 3 will explore the building performance metric of Emergence. How might building services contribute more than they consume, and learn as structures age? This session will explore advances in digital emergence including robotics and AI Confirmed Presentations:
Bree Trevena, Foresight Leader, Arup
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Session 4 \| Variety \| 12pm AEST, 19 August 2025 Session 4 will explore how building services could optimise space, promote adaptability and diversity of use and user Confirmed Presentations:
	The Sustainable Temporary Adaptive Reuse (STAR) project
Sara Wilkinson, Professor of Sustainable Property, UTS
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Panel Discussion: Resources professionals need to design a flexible future change with minimal material waste and intervention

Session 5 | Readiness | 12pm AEST, 26 August 2025

Session 5 will examine how building services can help reduce risk and harm, and build anticipatory capacity to respond to unseen threats.

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