Joe Quad

Manager - Buildings & Communities - NZGBC

With a background in mechanical engineering and sustainability consulting, Joe is a key part of the Green Star team. He helps projects achieve their sustainability targets and develops new standards to continually challenge the construction industry to strive for more environmentally friendly buildings.

After completing his degree in Building Engineering in Montreal, he spent almost a decade working in the consulting roles on a wide range of projects across New Zealand, Canada and the US. Initially focusing on mechanical engineering, his passion for the environment quickly drew him into the world of sustainable building design.

Justin Peberdy

NZ Sustainability Lead - NDY

Justin works to deliver leading sustainability solutions across the built environment, encompassing key issues such as resource efficiency, whole-of-life impacts, climate resilience, ecological impacts, human health & wellbeing and community impacts.

He is genuinely passionate about pushing the industry forward, to make meaningful contributions in addressing climate change and positively impacting the community and future generations. With a background in mechanical design engineering, he understands that these challenges require innovative, practical and scientifically-rigorous sustainability solutions.

Hilary West-Reeve

Executive Director & Chief Sustainability Officer - Phoenix Metalman Recycling

A commercial architect for over 30 years designing sustainable buildings globally and within New Zealand’s commercial, industrial and manufacturing sectors, Hilary’s work has evolved to focus on the circular economy. Hilary has spent the last 4 years owning and leading Phoenix, an award winning New Zealand nationwide circular economy services business.

Hilary is an advisor on the NZGBC’s Expert Reference Panel for Construction & Waste, vice chair of the Sustainable Steel Council, and an Industry Advisory Group (IAG) committee member for HERA's research project ‘Circular Design for a changing environment: a design framework to reduce construction waste, lifecycle embodied carbon, and to enhance the circular economy for construction materials, with a pilot for low-rise buildings’ and ‘Developing a Construction 4.0 transformation of the Aotearoa New Zealand construction industry’. She is also on the University of Auckland’s IAG for their Circular Innovations (CIRCUIT) Research Centre.

Harriet Smith

Program Lead Responsible Products - Green Building Council Australia

As the Program Lead for Responsible Products at the Green Building Council of Australia, Harriet is leading the Responsible Products Program. This program includes the delivery of the Responsible Products Calculator for Green Star project teams, and the Responsible Products Directory, a platform to view Responsible, Positive, Healthy and Circular products, creating transparency in the products and materials space.

Harriet’s previous experience has been in management consulting, specifically in the Supply Chain and Operations industry, delivering large scale technology transformation projects. Harriet has now worked at the GBCA for 1.5 years and is passionate about the Circular Economy which she believes is a significant part of transforming the built environment into a more sustainable one.

Ferran de Miguel Mercader

Sustainability Manager - Fletcher Building

Ferran is the Sustainability Manager at Fletcher Building, focussing on product sustainability and Environmental Product Declarations. He is Contract Lecturer at Massey University on Business Sustainability, and member of Embodied Carbon Technical Advisory Group for MBIE’s Building for Climate Change. 

He joined Fletcher Building in 2019, after one year as Sustainability Business Partner at Laminex New Zealand. Previously, he worked as Scientist at Scion developing technology for the production of biofuels, and at TNO (Netherlands) on CO₂ capture and storage. He represented New Zealand at the International Energy Agency – Bioenergy, on the topic of Direct Thermochemical Liquefaction of biomass. He holds an MSc (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain) and a PhD (Universiteit Twente, Netherlands), both in Chemical Engineering.