Sustainable Building Issues for the 21st Century - Nils Larsson

The Otago Energy Research Centre Invites you to "Sustainable Building Issues for the 21st Century" presented by Nils Larsson

When: Monday 19th of November 2007

Files from the Presentation

• The IDP process
• Building performance
• Some bumps on the road ahead
• Discussion Paper
• Rating Systems and SBTool - Short
• Rating Systems and SBTool
  
  

An informal workshop took place after the presentation for interested participants. This allowed people an opportunity to discuss rating tools, Green Building Councils and other issues with Nils.

The presentation will attract 10 CPD points from the NZIA

Nils Larsson
Executive Director
International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE)

Nils Larsson is an architect with long experience in research and development related to both residential and commercial building sectors, in Canada and internationally.

Under contract to Natural Resources Canada, Mr. Larsson developed the C-2000 Program for Advanced Commercial Buildings, which has resulted in the design and construction of commercial buildings across Canada that have energy consumption approximately 50% of current standards. As part of this work, he developed a formal implementation of the Integrated Design Process (IDP), which has been widely emulated around the world.

Mr. Larsson is also the main organizer of Green Building Challenge (GBC), an international project involving over 20 countries, whose aim is to develop and test new methods of assessing the environmental performance of buildings. In addition to management, the GBC work has included the lead role in the development of the software system for the project.

A new international organization, the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment (iiSBE) was formed in 2001, and Nils Larsson is the Executive Director of that organization. The organisation was formed to improve information about sustainable building around the world and to take over management of GBC. Mr. Larsson thus continues to lead the R&D and administrative aspects of GBC and has also led the development of a web-based multi-lingual information system called Sustainable Building Information System (SBIS), which was launched in June 2003. He is an active member of International Energy Agency's Task 23. Mr. Larsson also sits on the Organizing Committee of the SB07 conference, to be held in Auckland in November 2007. Since 1999, he has been invited to speak on reen building issues at seminars and conferences in USA, Korea, China, France, Japan, Netherlands, Israel, Kenya, Malaysia, South Africa, Italy, Argentina and Mexico; and has also served as a juror on two architectural competitions in Europe.

If you require any further information, please contact Ceri Warnock at ceri.warnock@otago.ac.nz or on 479 8799