Brad Crowley

Senior Manager Buildings & Communities - NZGBC

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.

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. In 2016 he joined the Board of the Passive House Institute New Zealand.
An experienced presenter, facilitator and podcaster, Matthew has interviewed over 200 architects, builders and industry experts from around the World on the Home Style Green podcast.

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. 

Gina embraces the opportunity to push the boundaries to deliver innovative and tailored design solutions. Above all, she is committed to designing both sensitively and impactfully, with a strong passion for integrating sustainable principles into every project.

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.

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 for the past 13 years, here in 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.

Remember: Knowledge is power…. But only if it is shared.  So come and tag along to reduce your carbon impact!

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.

With a background in climate adaptation for biodiversity conservation and national park management, Sam advocates a strong nature-based solutions approach in the delivery of sustainable and resilient places and spaces. His approach to work emphasises the need for robust processes, developed on a foundation of best practice, that clearly communicate climate change response requirements to inform practical actions that make a difference.

Tim Church

Urban Designer - Boffa Miskell

Tim’s a qualified urban designer with a landscape architecture background. He has worked extensively across the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand | Aotearoa, in both private and public sectors.

Spatial planning and master planning are his strengths. Tim relishes the combination of technical leadership to achieve effective land use, built form and transport integration, alongside the soft skills of workshop facilitation and engagement processes, to manage long-term change. He has been the lead masterplanner for the international award-winning Milford Opportunities Project (Stage 2) Masterplan, a multi-faceted, tourism-based project.

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.

Projects about to start and in planning are looking to obtain Homestar 6 and 7 ratings.