Sustainable Design Principles Event

Sustainable Design Principles Event (SDPE) is an annual event aimed at engaging and educating the design and construction industry on sustainable design and products. This design event is an evening that will see some 150 to 200 of Australia’s best designers, architects and industry professionals in an engaged audience learning, mingling and discussing ideas and thoughts on sustainability.

Keynote speaker Anita Mitchell is the Lend Lease, General Manager of Sustainability at Barangaroo South. Anita will speak about the global and local long-term sustainable impact of the exciting new project that is Barangaroo South. Barangaroo South is a 7.5-hectare site designed to become the greenest and most advanced finance district and the first large scale, carbon neutral precinct in Australia. Designed to be home to 1,200 residents, 23,000 office workers and more than 2.9 hectares of public space. Anita Mitchell, an environmental scientist with 19 years experience in the sustainability sector, will be giving a talk on what makes Barangaroo sustainable, the overall objectives of Barangaroo, what sustainable innovations Barangaroo will be showcasing plus many more exciting aspects of the Barangaroo South project.

Another speaker is Emine Mehmet, global sustainability ambassador and sustainability brand ambassador, who will give the opening speech. Emine works with construction companies in the design and building industry who want to increase their sustainable profile. Her experience and passion for design and sustainability has led her on a fulfilled career path working with companies such as Meriton Apartments and International Architecture and Design firm Woods Bagot, appearing on ‘Bright Ideas’ for Channel Ten and ‘Home’ for the Lifestyle channel. Emine will be giving the opening speech on the night.

And doesn’t everybody love a prize? Those who attend the design event are in the running for the grand door prize of a return trip for two to Melbourne to step inside the world’s tallest and Australia’s greenest timber apartment building, Forte.

This year the design event will be held in Sydney on the 5th of September at the Austral Bricks Showroom 1/50 Carrington Street, Sydney from 6pm-9pm.

Partners for the event include; Platinum Partners Living Tiles, Gold Partners; New Age Veneers, Billi, Godfrey Hirst, Airstep, UCI, UBIQ, Verosol, Dulux, Parchem and In Kind Partners: Virgin Australia, Lend Lease, Italian Chamber of Commerce, Look Print, Nicoya Furniture, Your Future Home, Birra Moretti, Civielle, Green Magazine and The Foundation for National Parks & Wildlife.

For more information visit www.sdpe.com.au