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BPLF - 2024
​8:55 Chairperson’s Opening Address + Acknowledgement of Country
​9:00
Federal Government trajectory to a low carbon economy
Federal Government trajectory to a low carbon economy including Nature Positive, Net Zero Australia and a Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
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STANFORD HARRISON - Director Commercial Buildings Policy – Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
​9:30
Proposed reforms to NCC Evidence of Suitability and introduction of a Product Register Scheme
Major changes to the NCC Evidence of Suitability provisions have been agreed by the Building Ministers Meeting (BMM), which include Product Labelling requirements, Traceability requirements, standardised product information, increasing rigour of the EoS compliance pathways and the development of a National Building Product Register Scheme.
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GARY RAKE - CEO - Australian Building Codes Board
​10:00
ASBEC Embodied Carbon Issues Paper
ASBEC is working on a national plan to address embodied carbon as part of the built environment’s sectoral decarbonisation. The Issues Paper will make best use of the insights gained through engaging industry on past projects and work with industry on feasible solutions.
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ALISON SCOTLAND - Executive Director - Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council
10:30 SILVER SPONSOR PRESENTATION - GS1 AUSTRALIA
10:35 MORNING REFRESHMENTS AND NETWORKING BREAK
​11:05
Lendlease Scope 3 Emissions Protocol
To reduce Scope 3 emissions generated in upstream activities, such as the manufacturing of building materials, we are creating a data-sharing ecosystem to facilitate the digitised exchange of product-level emissions data across our vast supply chains.
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ANN AUSTIN - Head of Sustainability - Lendlease
​11:35
Australian EPDs for Building Products
Overview and implications of recent changes to the Australasian EPD guidelines, what to look for in comparing EPDs from different suppliers, what changes are coming in the future, the differences between EPD schemes from different countries and how that may impact EPD usage.
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JONAS BENGTSSON - Director & Co-founder - Edge Impact
12:05
Upfront carbon or whole-of-life carbon: the impossible choice
Focusing too much on upfront embodied carbon in building products can miss opportunities for whole-of-life carbon abatement or even increase the whole project carbon budget by ignoring trade-offs. We can’t focus on one and ignore the other.
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NICOLE SULLIVAN - Impact Director - thinkstep-anz
12:35 SILVER SPONSOR PRESENTATION - STANDARDS AUSTRALIA
12:40 NETWORKING LUNCH AND REFRESHMENTS
13:25
Introducing the NABERS Embodied Carbon Tool
This new tool will be launched later in 2024. Find out how EPDs integrate into the tool and more.
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KATIE EYLES - Sector Lead | Accelerating Net Zero Buildings - NABERS
13:55
NSW building regulation pathway
Outline of the new NSW building regulation pathway, including NSW Building Products and Methods Advisory Group, NSW Chain of Responsibility legislation and other changes that will directly impact building products suppliers.
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THOMAS KEARNEY - Executive Director - NSW Building Commission
14.25
NSW Modern Methods of Construction Taskforce
This taskforce has been set up to help drive, shape and demonstrate the use and potential for off-site manufacturing and the streamline use of building products in NSW Government housing projects.
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BONDE ILIEVSKI - Regional Portfolio Director – Southern Region - Homes NSW
14:55 SILVER SPONSOR PRESENTATION - ICC-ES
15:00 AFTERNOON REFRESHMENTS AND NETWORKING BREAK
15:20
Traceability Implementation Guide - Launch
The technology and standards already exist to implement digital building product traceability but what is needed is a common understanding about what information should be shared along the construction supply chains and what form that information should take.
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DYAN JOHNSON - General Manager - Policy and Advocacy - Master Builders Queensland
15:50
Decarbonising Construction with a Common Data Model
Standards Australia, alongside the International Code Council and NBS, are leading a global alliance to develop a Common Data Model for the buildings and infrastructure sector to provide a consistent and interoperable way of describing and sharing information about building products, buildings and infrastructure from the planning and design stage through to construction, operation and maintenance.
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ADAM STINGEMORE - Chief Development Officer - Standards Australia
16:20
ACRS Digital Verification and Traceability Project
Traceability is a key part of conformity assessment and with increasing demand for “The Golden thread” of traceability in building products, a system agnostic approach for product traceability is needed. ACRS has been moving forward with this and the next step is the introduction of system agnostic digital credentials on product labels. This enables people using opensource protocols to validate claims regarding the product.
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DR. ANDREW WHEELER - Executive Director - Australasian Certification Authority for Reinforcing and Structural Steels
16:50 WRAP UP AND THANKS
DAY 2 - FREE MORNING BRIEFING - Thursday, August 22, 2024
BUILDING BETTER: BENEFITS OF CONFORMITY ASSESSMENT - REGISTER NOW
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A FREE morning briefing hosted by the International Code Council - Evaluation Service. The event will provide an update on the rapidly changing landscape of product assurance from several speakers involved in the delivery, attestation and advancement of building product conformity assessment services, including:
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NEIL SAVERY - Managing Director, ICC Oceania and former ABCB CEO.
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GEOFF MITCHELL - CodeMark UBC (Unrestricted Building Certifier).
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DYAN JOHNSON - General Manager - Policy and Advocacy - Master Builders Queensland
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DAVID A. TOMPOS - LEED AP BC+D
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