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FACING THE
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Thursday 9 to Saturday 11 June
Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane
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QLD/NT Chapter Conference 2016
9-11 June 2016 - Hotel Grand Chancellor, Brisbane
Welcome
It is with great pleasure that I welcome you all to the AIBS QLD/NT Chapter Conference for 2016 – Facing the
Challenges.
Our annual Conference is a key event in which building surveying professionals have an opportunity to
develop a better understanding of the responsibilities and duties imposed on them by Acts and Regulations
and is a must attend event for all those who want to further understand industry developments, and issues
of prominence.
The focus of this year’s conference is “Facing the Challenges”, and will showcase how diverse and challenging
our profession can be.
The speakers represent a wide variety of areas across our industry sector and will bring expertise and
experience to their presentations.
You our members and stakeholders within the building industry play a fundamental role in the success of
an event such as this. It is your contribution, knowledge and experiences which bring added depth to the
discussions that are stimulated through the high caliber presentations you will see.
One of the most important features of our Conference is the valuable networking opportunities with fellow
colleagues and industry professionals. Our delegates will include Building Surveying Professionals from
the private and government sector, and others professions involved in our industry. The relationships
you develop at events such as these provide you with the pathways to future prospects and the ability to
exchange knowledge and ideas relevant to the science of building.
On behalf of my colleagues on the QLD/NT Chapter Executive Committee, I hope that you find this conference
informative, stimulating and beneficial to your work as a Building Surveyor. I urge you to make the most of
this opportunity to catch up and network with your colleagues and fellow professionals.
Penny Whinney-Houghton
QLD/NT Chapter President
Contacts and Information
Australian Institute of
Building Surveyors
Karyn McGrigor and Alison Daykin
15 Bridge Street, PYMBLE NSW 2073
1300 312 427
Hotel Grand Chancellor
23 Leichhardt St, Brisbane QLD 4000
(07) 3831 4055
http://www.grandchancellorhotels.com/hotelgrand-chancellor-brisbane/
[email protected]
www.aibs.com.au
With Thanks to Our Conference Committee
Penny Whinney-Houghton (Convenor)
John Dunn
Stan Spyrou
Stuart Titheradge
John Wilson
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Exhibitors
With thanks to the continued support of our Conference Partners, we are able to bring to you an exhibition
that will showcase the very latest in products and services to assist you in daily practice. Please make the
most of the opportunity to meet and mingle with our Partners during the session breaks.
Gala Dinner
Time:
6:30pm 7:00pm Pre-dinner drinks
Dinner served
Venue:
Terrace & Roma Rooms, Hotel Grand Chancellor
Mingle with your colleagues and peers, enjoy fine food and wine, win great prizes and dance the night away
to the musical stylings of the Red Tie Band.
AIBS Proudly Supports Camp Quality
At the 2016 AIBS QLD/NT Chapter Conference there will be raffles
on Thursday and Friday with some great prizes on offer. All money
raised will go to this year’s AIBS chosen charity, Camp Quality,
whose mission is to create a better life for kids living with cancer.
Please see campquality.org.au for more information.
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Thursday 9 June 2016 ( 4 CPD Points )
11.00am
Registrations Open
12.30pm
Welcoming Address
Penny Whinney-Houghton, MAIBS, QLD/NT Chapter President
12.40pm
The Planning Act
James Coutts, Department of Infrastructure, Local Government and Planning
1.15pm
Official Opening
The Hon. Michael de Brenni, MP, Minister for Housing and Public Works
1.30pm
Key Note Speaker
A Winning Mindset
Guy Newman, Director, Newmemory
2.30pm
The AIBS Role in the Non-Conforming Product Arena
Darryl O’Brien, MAIBS, Lecturer in Building Surveying and Built Environment,
CQUniversity
2.55pm
Camp Quality
3.00pm
Afternoon Tea
3.30pm
Steel Substitution - Why it Matters and How to Manage it
Philip Sanders, Executive Director, ACRS
3.50pm
Key Note Speaker
Building vs Wind
Assoc. Prof. Geoff Boughton PhD, MEngSci, FIEAust, CPEng, TimberED
4.50pm
Wrap Up
5.00pm
Session Close
5.30pm
Welcome & Networking Session to meet the Qld/NT CEC, other conference delegates,
AIBS National President, CEO as well as our National Partners, Conference Partners and
Exhibitors.
Camp Quality Raffle will be drawn during networking session.
7:00pm
Networking Finishes
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Friday 10 June 2016 ( 6.5 CPD Points)
7.45am
Registrations Open
8:30am
Compliant Steel: How to Get it Right
David Bell, OneSteel
8:50am
AIBS National Presidents Report
Jeffrey Brooks, MAIBS, AIBS National President
9.05am
The Direction of AIBS
Brett Mace, AIBS Chief Executive Officer
9.25am
Facing the Challenges - A Regulator’s Perspective
Tony Townshend, MAIBS, Queensland Building and Construction Commission
9.55am
Snapchat with Institute of Access Training Australia
Lucas Wheeler, Institute of Access Training Australia
10.00am
Morning Tea
10.30am
Increased Focus on Performance Based Solutions, How Does That Affect Our Liability
Exposure?
Paul Gordon, HWL Ebsworth Lawyers
11.00am
Non-Conforming Building Products
Matthew Byrnes, Strategic Policy (Building), Department of Housing and Public Works
11.30am
Key Note Speaker
Traits and Mindset of the Building Surveyor of the Future
Dr Paola Ponitti, President, Europa Futuring Group
12.25pm
Snapchat with TBA Firefly
Trevor Kempster, TBA Firefly
12.30pm
Lunch
1.30pm
Working in a Performance Based Environment
Chris Gildersleeve, Arup, and John Wilson, LFAIBS, Dept of Housing and Public Works
3.00pm
Afternoon Tea
3.30pm
Energy Efficiency - Applying Alternative Solutions on Traditional Designs and Existing
Buildings
Ray Fogolyan, Home Star Rating Australia
4.40pm
Professional Indemnity Conundrums
Patrick Beaumont, BRIC
5.00pm
Session Close and Camp Quality Raffle Draw
6.30pm
Pre-Dinner Drinks
7.00pm
Gala Dinner
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Saturday 11 June 2016 ( 3.5 CPD Points)
8.00am
Registrations Open
8.30am
Key Note Speaker
When Can DTS Solutions Make Unsafe Buildings?
Jonathan Barnett, Technical Director, RED Fire Engineers
9.30am
QLD Development Code MP3.7 Farm Buildings
John Dunn, MAIBS, John Dunn Building Approvals
10.00am
Morning Tea
10.30am New Standard – Timber Mid Rise Buildings
Dr Benoit Gilbert, Senior Lecturer at Griffith School of Engineering, Gold Coast Campus,
on behalf of WoodSolutions
10.50am ACCESS - Is Close Enough Good Enough?
Joe Manton, Institute of Access Training Australia
11.50am QLD/NT Chapter Open Forum
12.20pm Conference Wrap Up
Penny Whinney-Houghton MAIBS,
AIBS QLD/NT Chapter President
12.30pm Conference Close
Upcoming Conferences
NSW / ACT 2016 Chapter Conference
25-26 July 2016
Dockside, Darling Harbour - New South Wales
TAS 2016 Chapter Conference
Friday 16 September
Wrest Point, Hobart
WA 2016 Chapter Conference
20-21 October 2016
Crown Perth, Perth - Western Australia
VIC 2016 Chapter Conference
10-11 November 2016
Crown Melbourne, Melbourne - Victoria
Visit aibs.com.au for more information.
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Our Speakers
Dr. Jonathan Barnett
RED Fire Engineers
Dr Jonathan Barnett is an internationally acclaimed technical
expert in fire engineering with
over 38 years’ experience.
As a former Professor in fire
safety engineering and mechanical engineering
and currently as a chartered professional engineer
he has conducted fire safety research and designed
numerous commercial, residential and special
purpose buildings.
Jonathan is an experienced expert witness who has
investigated and testified about building defects
and fires worldwide.
Patrick Beaumont
BRIC
Patrick Beaumont is the Manager
of the Financial Lines Unit at
Bovill Risk & Insurance Consultants (BRIC) and has been
arranging professional indemnity
for building surveyors since 2004.
BRIC is the recommended insurance broker for AIBS
members.
Chris Gildersleeve
Arup
Chris Gildersleeve is a Principal
of Arup and former leader of
Arup’s fire engineering business
in Australasia. He has led many
building
and
infrastructure
design teams in Australasia,
Europe and East Asia. He
combines a broad structural and civil engineering
design knowledge with specialist skills in structural
fire engineering.
Chris is committed to providing pro-active and
creative design input to all projects in which he is
involved. His specialist expertise in structural fire
engineering is sought out by clients throughout
the region and has contributed to a wide range of
innovative design solutions.
Assoc. Prof. Geoff Boughton
TimberED
Geoff is Director of TimberED
Services, a company that provides
structural consultancy services to
the Australian building industry.
He has a PhD in Structural
Engineering for work on wind
loads on housing at the Cyclone Testing Station,
James Cook University, and previously held an
academic role at Curtin University for 13 years.
Geoff is also an adjunct associate professor in the
School of Engineering, James Cook University and a
Fellow of the Institution of Engineers and a member
of both the Australasian Wind Engineering Society
and the Australian Earthquake Engineering Society.
Geoff has been involved in teams that have
investigated damage to buildings following extreme
wind events including tropical cyclones and severe
storms in the south west of WA. He has contributed
to training in all natural disasters at AEMI and has
contributed to disaster resistant construction in the
Pacific rim.
JoeManton
Institute of Access Training
Australia
Joe is a highly regarded leader
and innovator in the access
industry with more than 30 years’
experience working across an
extensive range of organisations
to address access challenges.
She is an eagerly sought after presenter and
trainer who delivers the only nationally recognised
qualification in Australia in relation to access to the
built environment. She developed and delivers the
Certificate IV in Access Consulting and Diploma
of Access Consulting that are acclaimed by many
people working in the access and other related
industries. IATA received the Corporate Vision Best
Universal Access Consultants Award – Australia
2015.
Joe is an Accredited member of the Association of
Consultants in Access Australia (ACAA) and the
only Fellow of ACAA, recognised for her work in the
industry. Joe is also a Fellow of Leadership Victoria.
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David Bell
OneSteel
David Bell is a structural engineer
with OneSteel and has worked
in a number of design, development, engineering and marketing
positions in Melbourne and
Sydney.
His current role has a focus on optimised project
solutions for the Australian construction industry,
as well as a broader development and education
role in areas such as structural engineering, compliance, sustainability and product development.
Dr Benoit Gilbert
Griffith School of Engineering
Dr Benoit Gilbert obtained a
master of engineering in 2001 in
France and a PhD in Structural
Engineering from the University
of Sydney in 2010.
He is now a senior lecturer and Australian Research
Council (ARC) research fellow (DECRA) at Griffith
University. His research interests lie in steel and
timber structures, with an emphasis in light and
efficient structures.
He is currently developing timber structures using
early to mid-rotation hardwood plantation eucalyptus logs.
Darryl O’Brien
CQUniversity
Darryl is currently a lecturer in
Building Surveying and Built Environment at CQUniversity. Prior
to taking on the CQU lecturing
position Darryl was a private
certifier and planning consultant
involved in a range of significant building developments.
Darryl holds bachelor degrees in both Building
Surveying and Building Design and a Master’s
degree in Environmental Planning and is a current
PHD candidate.
Jeffrey Brooks
AIBS National President
Jeffrey has been in the construction industry for 29 years working
as a licensed plumber, carpenter
and elevating to the positions
of Construction Manager and
Project Manager in government
and the private sector.
For the last 17 years he has worked in Building
Surveying and is Company Director of Eastcoast
Building Approvals operating in QLD and SA. Jeffrey
has completed Post Graduate qualifications in Construction Management and Building Surveying, and
hopes to complete his Masters in Business Administration in the next few years.
He is the QLD/NT Director for the Australian
Institute of Building Surveyors and was elected to
the position of National President of AIBS in 2012.
Dr. Paola Ponitti
Europa Futuring Group
Dr Paolo Ponitti
is Founding
President of the Europa Futuring
Group which is dedicated to disseminating information about
the future of leading, managing
and getting his clients to create
what he calls their “preferred future”.
Paolo will speak on what type of traits and mindset
the “Building Surveyor of the Future” will need to
embrace in an ever changing environment. He will
also show all of us how we can develop game-changing strategies aimed at facilitating us to become
fully engaged both in work and in life in order to
create again what he calls our “preferred future”.
Paolo encourages all of us to not only manage our
time but also our energy. So will building surveyors
shape the future or will the future shape building
surveyors?
Paolo has both a Masters in Business Leadership
and Neuropsychology from Cambridge University, a dual degree he completed over five years ago
between consulting roles.
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Matthew Byrnes
Department of Housing and
Public Works
Matthew has worked as a Director
in Strategic Policy (Building),
Building Industry and Policy,
since early December 2015. His
responsibilities include building
policy and legislation.
A particular focus of his work in his current role is
non-conforming building products.
Matthew has worked in the Queensland Public
Service since 2005 in strategic policy and legislative
development positions. This has included roles in
the Office of the Attorney-General and Minister
for Justice and the Departments of Employment
and Industrial Relations, Housing, Communities,
Environment and Heritage Protection and the
Premier and Cabinet.
Paul Gordon
HWL Ebsworth Lawyers
Paul has been a partner in
the building and construction
team at the national firm of
HWL Ebsworth since 2000 and
practised solely in construction
since 1995. During that time Paul has been involved in some
of Queensland’s largest building and infrastructure
projects but also held a keen interest in the
certification industry and building regulation.
Paul is regularly consulted by government in respect
to building legislation and has advised the QBCC for
20 years in all aspects of its business. Paul is the
Queensland Law Society’s representative on the
Building Industry Consultative Group.
Brett Mace
AIBS Chief Executive Officer
Brett joined the AIBS in May 2013
and became CEO in September
2013 bringing 25+ years professional management experience
in both the commercial and notfor-profit sectors.
Brett’s background has been primarily in sport first
as a Physical Training Instructor in the Royal Australian Navy, before undertaking a number of management roles at state, national and international
level.
Prior to AIBS, as High Performance Manager with
Equestrian Australia, Brett led and managed successful Olympic (Beijing & London), Paralympic
and World Championship campaigns that achieved
a silver medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, gold
at the 2012 London Paralympics, along with gold,
silver and bronze world championship medals in
2006 and 2010.
Since joining AIBS, Brett has been focussed on
structuring the organisation to strengthen its long
term financial viability, governance structures and
retaining its relevance in the Industry.
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Philip Sanders
ACRS
Philip Sanders serves as executive
director of ACRS, Australasia’s
specialist, independent conformity assessment body certifying
construction steels to Australian
and New Zealand Standards.
Philip is a strong advocate of the benefits to both
industry and the public from specialised, verification-based certification of construction materials,
having witnessed the results of poor materials performance during a career spanning 30-years across
engineering design and specification, building construction, insurance loss control, materials supply
and product certification. Philip has acted as a
non-executive director for several industry bodies,
and contributed to a number of Standards Australia
committees, including concrete structures, bridge
structures, earthquake loading and residential slabs
& footings.
Philip is a Chartered Professional Engineer and
Chartered Environmentalist, and a Graduate member
of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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Ray Fogolyan
Home Star Rating Australia
Ray Fogolyan has extensive
practical experience in the
Building construction industry
and has been a Foreman for some
of Australia largest commercial
builders.
Ray also has a broad range of experience in Education
and Training within the construction industry
having taught Building Studies at Victoria University, Charles Darwin University, Housing Industry
Association and at a national level was Senior
Project Officer with both the National Building and
Construction Industry Training Advisory Board and
the Australian National Training Authority looking
after construction Mining and Drilling Industries.
Ray was appointed as a Director on the Board of
the Association of Building Sustainability Assessors
from 2010 to 2012 and again in January 2015.
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Guy Newman
Newmemory
Tony Townshend
QBCC
Guy is one of Australia’s most
dynamic speakers and facilitators
with over 25 years of experience.
Guy’s life journey started as a
Clown / Acrobat / Juggler in a
world renowned Circus.
Tony Townshend has been a
building surveyor for over 39
years. In that time he has seen
building certification evolve
including moving from the
public sector to a mixture of
both public and private sectors.
He is also an Olympic Water Polo Athlete having
competed at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. In 1995
Guy achieved his biggest goal – voted the best in the
world in his position. With a Degree in Journalism
and a passion for psychology, biology, neuroscience,
motivation and human behaviour Guy speaks from
experience on how to develop a Winning Mindset
and be the best version of you possible.
Tony believes there are many challenges ahead
for the building certification profession. Tony
is currently the Manager for the Certification
Branch of the Queensland Building Construction
Commission. He holds a Bachelor of Construction
Management and a Graduate Certificate in Fire
Safety Engineering both from the Queensland
University of Technology.
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AIBS proudly presents our National, Conference and Exhibition Partners.
We thank them for their ongoing support.
Our National Partners
Our Platinum Partners
Our Gold Partners
Our Silver Partners
Our Exhibitors
BCS
BRIC
CSR Hebel
Homeworthy
IATA
MiTek
Printacall
Queensland Building and Construction Commission
Simpson Strong-Tie
TBA Firefly
WoodSolutions
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