LEAF International
Virtual Forum
15th October 2020
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LEAF International
DAY 1|15th October 2020
8:30 am WELCOME ADDRESS from Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Joe Iles
Circular Design Programme Lead
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
8:40 am OPENING ADDRESS: Supporting the market transformation towards 100% net zero carbon buildings by 2050
Challenges in designing energy efficient and fully powered from renewable energy sources buildings
Victoria Burrows
Director of Advancing Net Zero
World Green Building Council
9:10 am KEYNOTE: Enabling the shift towards a more resource efficient and circular building industry. Park 20|20 ̶ The world’s first Cradle to Cradle inspired work environment
Coert Zachariasse
CEO
Delta Development Group
9:40 am PANEL DISCUSSION: Innovative façade solutions and design challenges
- Optimising façade solutions to reduce energy and carbon emissions
- Occupant’s health and well-being at the forefront of building design, construction and operation
- Smart buildings – smart glazing – smart envelope
- What are the design challenges of high performance building envelopes?
- Performance and embodied energy/carbon in the materials
Anis Abou Zaki
Partner - Environmental Design and Sustainability
Foster and Partners
Bruce Nicol
Head of Global Design
Merck Window Technologies BV
Anke Rollenhagen
Associate, Façade Engineering
BuroHappold Engineering
10:30 am EXHIBITION HALL: HOSTED ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS AND NETWORKING
11:00 am Ecological design research through digital processes and innovative material solutions
Lasse Lind
Architect MAA, Partner GXN, Head of Consultancy, DGNB Districts Consultant
3XN
11:30 am Sustainable cities: challenges for urbanism and city-making. Urban vision from MVRDV
Enno Zuidema
Studio Director
MVRDV
12:00 pm Digital cathedrals and the city of the future - man, technology and nature: synergy in the urban environment
Chris Bosse
Asia Pacific Director
LAVA
12:15 pm Timber construction projects and fabrication as the most sustainable concept
- An introduction to timber fabrication as a sustainable business model -Timber as a naturally renewable, low-carbon, versatile, lightweight, locally abundant material offers a wide range of possibilities
- Insight in the planning and execution process of two eye-catching timber constructions -The Free Form Structure of the Cambridge Mosque and a Modular building of the Hotel Bad Horn
Katharina Lehmann
CEO
Lehmann Gruppe
12:45 pm EXHIBITION HALL: HOSTED ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS AND NETWORKING
1:15 pm New technologies in the built environment - new opportunities for architecture
Edge Technologies
1:45 pm KEYNOTE: Modular grows up
- State of volumetric high rise modular construction, how far the industry has progressed and what’s holding it back from going mainstream
- Current ground-breaking modular projects, including AC Hotel by Marriott in Manhattan, which will be the tallest modular hotel in the world
- Advantages of modular are increasingly apparent, now that global pandemic joins climate change and economic uncertainty as factors that make factory construction a smart choice
Danny Forster
President and Founder
Danny Forster & Architecture
2:15 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: Construction challenges in high-rise buildings
- Combustibility in high rise
- How to maximise offsite delivery methods
- What are the challenges when you talk sustainability in high rise? Can tall buildings ever be sustainable?
- High-rise façade design challenges
Dirk Visser
Associate Director, Netherlands Leader
Buro Happold
Danny Forster
President and Founder
Danny Forster & Architecture
Roland Bechmann
Managing Director and Partner
Werner Sobek
Mike Hitchmough
Architect Director, BDP
3:00 pm EXHIBITION HALL: HOSTED ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS AND NETWORKING
3:30 pm INTERVIEW: Circularity in the built environment
Interview with Director of ARUP
Chaired by Joe Iles, Circular Design Programme Lead, Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Joe Iles
Circular Design Programme Lead
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
4:00 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: An insight into the future of hospitality design
- Innovative design solutions to enhance customer experience – creating destination; creating memories
- What changes to design and space does the hospitality sector need to envisage post-COVID-19
- The role of interior designer in achieving circular hospitality
- Shaping more sustainable interiors – designing with long-service in mind
- Sustainable materials in the future interior design
Phin Foster
Editor-in-Chief
Hotel Management International
Gabriele Chiave
Creative Director
Marcel Wanders Studio
Andrew Linwood
Head of Design
Areen Hospitality
Brad Davidson
Managing Director
Brad Davidson Consulting BVBA
4:50 pm INTERVIEW with James Ehrlich on developing thriving regenerative community environments and the future of residential design in 21st century lifestyles
Alan Crawford
Managing Director
Crawford Partnership
James Ehrlich
Founder
ReGen Villages Holding
5:20 pm CLOSING SESSION: Tackling the biggest challenges impacting the built environment
- How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed the built environment? What changes might we see happening to the city-making processes, residential housing, social infrastructure and outdoor spaces brought by the pandemic and lockdown?
- The role of the architect in the coming decade
- The challenges and opportunities that a circular economy presents for architects, designers and manufacturers
Sanjay Tanwani
Design Director
AECOM
Alan Crawford
Managing Director
Crawford Partnership
Carlo Castelli
Head of Cities Solutions Europe
Jacobs
Astrid Piber
Partner, Senior Architect
UNStudio
Doug Farr
President
Farr Associates
6:10 pm END OF FORUM. EXHIBITION HALL IS OPEN FOR NETWORKING UNTIL 19:00
SPONSORSHIP ENQUIRIES
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E-mail: LEAFF@arena-international.com
SPEAKER OPPORTUNITIES
If you are interested to contribute as a speaker, please contact:
Nadia Rozario
E-mail: Nadia.Rozario@ns-mediagroup.com