World Green Roof Congress Programme - Day 2

 Day Two: Thursday 20 September - World Green Roof Congress Programme.

08.30Registration
09.00Chairman’s Welcome
Manfred Kohler
University of Applied Sciences in Neubrandenburg
President, WGIN
09.10Tina Saaby
City Architect for the City of Copenhagen
09.30Keynote Address
Speaker tbc
10.00Keynote Address
Skyrise Greenery - Singapore's Green Roofs & Walls
Nur Faezah Mohd Sanif
Skyrise Greenery National Parks Board
Singapore
10.40Q&A
11.00Refreshments and Networking
11.25 - 13.00
Parallel Sessions
SessionArchitectureApproaches to PlantingEnergyPlants, Walls, & Rain gardens
ChairTina Saaby
City Architect for
The City of Copenhagen
Dusty Gedge
Living Roofs
Graeme Hopkins
Living Architecture Consultants
Fifth Creek Studio
Gary Grant
Consultant Ecologist
David Zahle,
BIG, Denmark
The 8 House
Nigel Dunnett
University of Sheffield, UK
Designed dry meadow vegetation as a model for low-input, high quality green roof applications
Roger Clay
University of Adelaide, Australia
Determining and Understanding Thermal Characteristics of Green Roofs in the City of Adelaide
Warren Osbourne
AECOM, UK
The Living Wall, Westfield London 3 years on
Catherine Basilio
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Opportunities for enhancing amenity and understanding of green/bio diverse roofs
Rafael Schneider
ZHAW – Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Orchids on green roofs - occurrence in Switzerland and planting conditions
Hasim Altan
The University of Sheffield,
The Thermal Benefits of Green Roofs in the UK Climate
Frédéric Madre
Natural Museum of National History, France
A new typology for biodiversity studies on
vegetated buildings
Antonio Colchete Filho & Christiane Merhy Gatto
Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
Green roofs: supplies for application in southeast of Brazil
Heather Rumble
University of London, UK
Assessing the quality of below-ground biodiversity on green roofs
Bernhard Scharf
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
Thermal performance of green roofs
Magdalena Mioduszewska
ZHAW – Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
New lightweight green roof system and methods to support the success of plant growth
Maria Manso
University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Development of a modular system for vegetated surfaces in new buildings and retrofitting
Giancarlo Mangone
TU Delft Faculty of Architecture, Netherlands
Constructing Biodiversity: An architectural case study exploring the application and project performance benefits of a developed biodiversity design toolkit
Madalena Vaz Monteiro &
Tijana Blanusa
School of Biological Sciences, University of Reading/RHS UK
Potential to increase summer cooling and roof insulation by using alternatives to Sedum?
Malgorzata Gabrych & Marja Mesimäki
University of Helsinki, Finland
Cross-disciplinary green roof research in Finland
12.50Q&A
13.00Lunch
14.00Keynote Address
chaired by Dusty Gedge, President, European Federation of Green Roof Associations

Bruce Hemstock
Principal
PWL Partnership
The Ideology of Ecological Overlays in Urban Conditions (title not confirmed)
14.20 - 15.30City Mayors Panel Discussion [supported by CIRIA]
Take a world tour of green roofs. Join Mayors and policy makers from world cities and understand each city’s unique incorporation of Green Roofs into existing and new city infrastructure.

Lord Frank Jensen, Lord Mayor of the City of Copenhagen, Denmark
Fabienne Giboudeaux, Deputy Mayor of Paris, France
Unn Ellefsen, Senior Adviser to the Ministry of Environment, Norway
Ola Elvestuen, Vice Mayor for Environment and Transport, Norway
Mayor Sam Adams, Portland Oregon (invited), USA

Find out more about the Mayoral Panel Discussion

Chaired by Dusty Gedge, President of the European Federation of Green Roof Associations (EFB) and Paul Shaffer, Associate. CIRIA
15.25Q&A
15.45Closing Session
Announcement of the winning host city for the World Green Roof Congress 2014 and Closing Remarks.
16.00Congress Close