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"A green building is a building which is energy efficient, resource efficient and environmentally responsible – it incorporates design, construction and operational practices that significantly reduce or eliminate the negative impact of development on the environment and its occupants.” www.gbcsa.org.za

Conference Objectives

This sixth international conference is intended to bring together postgraduate researchers, academics and industry representatives from Southern Africa and further afield to deliberate issues of common interest with the aim of advancing the build environment professions. It will provide a platform to debate and highlight the vision of the built environment professions towards a changing environment.

The vision of the conference is to encourage active debate amongst researchers, specialists in the field and practitioners. The conference seeks to explore current advances in "green” research relevant to the present and future state of development of the professions’ and industry, nationally and globally. Presentations by persons who are working in the built environment discipline and who are hands-on working with the "green"challenges that the built environment profession faces, will be particularly interesting. The aim is to address the role and the contribution of all who add value to the industry’s and professions’ performance in the "green” context. Papers will be delivered within the broad areas of the QS profession and construction development. Topics will include:·

• Sustainable construction·
• Green innovation in construction·
• Construction industry development towards sustainability·
• Sustainable human resource development·
• Trends and challenges in "green” construction procurement·
• Green property investment·
• Challenges facing the QS profession with regards the adoption of a "green” Vision by 2020

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