Kia ora Christchurch
Date - Thursday 26 June 2025
Time - 4:00pm - 7:00pm
What you need to know
There's some tremendous work being done to progress better buildings and meet our climate goals. Join us for a well overdue opportunity to connect, and to hear from some of the local leaders doing the mahi.
Julie Villard, Eco Design Advisor of Christchurch City Council will be giving an update on the city’s ambitious carbon goals and what is in place to reach them - including renewable energy supply, solar panel farms, and greater transparency of energy efficient homes. Build-to-rent developer and property manager Tim Hoban has a long waitlist for those wanting sustainable homes. He'll share some of his experience and insights on the residential market, including the huge demand he's seeing for healthy, resilient student accommodation. The team from Boffa Miskell will get into the nitty gritty of Nature Based Solutions, what it means for you, and providing some exciting examples of work underway already. Plus, our heads of residential and commercial certifications will be there to update on NZGBC's work and to answer any of your questions.
It's a packed programme, and a brilliant opportunity to connect, catchup, and get up to speed with the latest green building updates. See you there!
With thanks to our sponsor
Matthew Cutler-Welsh
Business Development Manager - Residential - NZGBC
Matthew leads work on healthy lower carbon homes at the NZGBC. Overseeing the auditing, research and for Homestar, the national standard for healthy lower carbon homes and buildings.
After completing his Honours Degree in Natural Resources Engineering Matthew now has 15 years of experience leading residential energy efficiency projects and education programmes in New Zealand and Australia.
Gina Langrdige
Landscape Architect - Boffa Miskell
Gina is a qualified Landscape Architect with an established background in designing and delivering public and private realm projects in New Zealand and internationally. She undertakes projects with a people-centric focus and embraces innovation to tackle complex design challenges.
Her commitment to delivering sustainable landscape design solutions has specific focus on reducing embodied carbon, utilising both quantifiable and holistic methods.
Julie Villard
Eco Design Advisor - Christchurch City Council
NZ Awards winning architect and eco-friendly specialist, Julie Villard has a passion for design, sustainability & technology, she built her skills and knowledge in France, Canada, Switzerland and New Zealand.
She is now the welcoming face of the Christchurch City Council’s Eco Design Advisor service, advocating for smarter, healthier and more energy efficient homes. She provides support and free independent advice for new homes & retrofit, to homeowners, designers, and manufacturers. Her main drive is to debunk building’s myth and encourage everyone to do better and to do better now. With a strong scientific background, she explains among other things, what she calls ‘’the physics of the building’’ and the various principles of what constitutes an eco-build.
Sam Parsons
Climate Change Specialist - Boffa Miskell
Sam is a climate change adaptation and mitigation specialist with experience in climate change response assessment, planning, and delivery across the New Zealand Government and private sectors.
He has experience in the development and application of innovative climate change impact assessment approaches, with particular expertise in assessing climate change interactions and responses within the natural environment. Sam specialises in working collaboratively with government agencies and organisations alongside a diversity of community stakeholders for the delivery of climate change response initiatives in the natural and built environment.
Tim Hoban
Property Manager
Tim Hoban is a build to rent developer/property manager based in Christchurch. Tim and his business partner purchased their first rental property on a large section in 1992 and over the years have progressed from relocating old houses to building new purpose built rental homes.
A recent project featured on-site water detention, solar power generation, low energy usage appliances and hot water heating, raised bed vegetable gardens etc.