World Green Roof Congress Programme - Day 2
Day Two: Thursday 20 September - World Green Roof Congress Programme.
| 08.30 | Registration |
| 09.00 | Chairman’s Welcome Manfred Kohler University of Applied Sciences in Neubrandenburg President, WGIN |
| 09.10 | Tina Saaby City Architect for the City of Copenhagen |
| 09.30 | Keynote Address Speaker tbc |
| 10.00 | Keynote Address Skyrise Greenery - Singapore's Green Roofs & Walls Nur Faezah Mohd Sanif Skyrise Greenery National Parks Board Singapore |
| 10.40 | Q&A |
| 11.00 | Refreshments and Networking |
| 11.25 - 13.00 Parallel Sessions | Session | Architecture | Approaches to Planting | Energy | Plants, Walls, & Rain gardens |
| Chair | Tina Saaby City Architect for The City of Copenhagen | Dusty Gedge Living Roofs | Graeme Hopkins Living Architecture Consultants Fifth Creek Studio | Gary Grant Consultant Ecologist |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 12.50 | Q&A | ||||
| 13.00 | Lunch | ||||
| 14.00 | Keynote 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) |
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| 14.20 - 15.30 | City 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 |
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| 15.25 | Q&A | ||||
| 15.45 | Closing Session Announcement of the winning host city for the World Green Roof Congress 2014 and Closing Remarks. |
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| 16.00 | Congress Close | ||||
