Join us for an energising evening of discussion and networking focused on the role of our built environment in achieving Christchurch’s 2030 climate goals.
4-7pm, Thursday 26 June 2025
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Senior Manager - Buildings and Communities
Brad is the Manager of the Green Star rating tool where he assists the Green Star team and identifies new opportunities to use the quiver of Green Star tools (Design and As-Built, Performance, Interior, Communities) to make buildings better.
While getting his Geography Master’s degree back in the late 1990s Brad first heard about Sustainability and Green Buildings. Ever since he has been advocating for green buildings and sustainability including starting up his own business creating and installing rainwater catchment systems in Portland, Oregon. Brad has a positive outlook on seeing what he and NZGBC can do to encourage healthier and more environmentally friendly buildings and communities in Aotearoa.
