Gathering the latest industry intelligence updates with presentations from the best practitioners in the field. The High-Performance Green Buildings, Malaysia conference will host an expert panel of speakers including: Keynote address |
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YB Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui Minister of Energy, Green Technology & Water, Malaysia |
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Distinguished chairpersons |
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Matthias Gelber Board Member Matthias Gelber is an international trainer, speaker and business man with experience in 38 countries worldwide. His focus areas have been environmental management and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) over the last 15 years. He was given the Greenest Person on the Planet award in 2008 by 3rdwhale.com and he was recently named one of the Men of the Year by in Malaysia by the Magazine Clive. Matthias started a volunteer movement called Eco Warriors Malaysia which has focused on mobilizing Malaysians to take practical green actions, such as tree planting and recycling. Matthias brought as well the Awakening the Dreamer movement to Malaysia, which looks at how we can live a live that is more connected with sustainable living and social justice. Matthias is the co founder of Maleki GmbH, and board member of Green Building Products Private Limited and INEM, the International Network of Environmental Management. Maleki GmbH is the global technology leader in low carbon footprint building materials such as waterproofing, self leveling industrial flooring, insulation render and Green Concrete. Matthias has been working the last few years with the building industry to develop practical strategies for effective environmental and sustainability progress. He is a member of the Green Building Council and the IISBE, which is the International Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment. |
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Ir. Bernard Sagaiyaraj Ir. Bernard Sagaiyaraj is founder and director of Blue Snow Consulting & Engineering Sdn Bhd, set up in 2005 and dedicated to providing Mechanical and Electrical consulting and building commissioning professional services related to Sustainable Green Building Design@ LEED™, and energy performance of buildings to owners, developers, and design and construction teams. Bernard holds a Bachelor degree (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Malaya, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Heriot-Watt University. He is a member of the Board of Engineers Malaysia (P.Eng), member of the Institute of Engineers Malaysia (M.I.E.M.), an associate-member of ASHRAE (American Society of Hearing, Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning Engineers), associate member of IIR (International Institute of Refrigeration), member of ISIAQ (International Society of Indoor Air Quality), and USGBC (United States Green Building Council) and a LEED TM (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) Accredited Professional. Blue Snow Consulting & Engineering Sdn Bhd has offices in KualaLumpur, Penang, Bangkok and Manila. Bernard is currently involved in LEED TM – NC Certification and Green Building Design of development projects in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia , Banpoo, Thailand and Manila, Philippines. |
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Eminent Panel of Speakers |
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Adibah Mohamed Senior Business Development Manager Adibah heads the Business Development department and is handling product distributions for ItraMAS’s Q-RAY range of Light Emitting Diode (LED) “white light” products. Prior to joining ItraMAS, she spent 12 years stint in the IT Industry in Singapore where she took up various roles from system implementation and integration and project management, to pre-sales technical support and consultation. Currently her responsibilities are to promote green technology projects such as enhancing customer awareness on LED technology, standards adoption and conversion from conventional to LED lighting. |
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Chang Jeng Ngo Madam Chang has over 40 years of experience in the field of paint. She is currently the Technical Manager for Star Chemical Manufacturers Pte. Ltd., Singapore (A member of Seamaster Paint Group), in which she has worked for more than three decades. She started as a Senior Chemist in 1974 before being promoted to her current position. She is also the Technical Advisor for Seamaster Paint (Manufacturing) Bhd., Malaysia. Madam Chang is also working as a committee member to draft and revise SS: 5, appointed by the Technical committee to assist in the preparation of the Singapore Standard: 5- Methods of Test for Paints, Varnishes and Related Materials (SS:5). Furthermore, she is a group member for preparation of the Singapore Standard: SS494: 2001, Lead and Chromate Free Primer for Iron and Steel Substrates. In addition, she is also one of the group members to assist in the preparation guideline on Workplace Safety and Health Technical Advisory on the Safe Use and Handling of Paint – from the Occupational Safety and Health Division, Ministry of Manpower, Singapore. |
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Geito Sugianto Director - Projects Gieto Sugianto, Director (Projects) at Architects 61 Pte Ltd (A61), oversees design in an integrated design team of almost 40 architects and design support staff. Having graduated from University of Aachen Germany in 1986, he practiced in Germany and Indonesia before joining A61 in 1990. With more than 20 years of architectural design and professional consultancy experience, Gieto Sugianto has overseen a significant number of recognizable projects both in Singapore and in the Region, especially in Indonesia and Vietnam. He has specialized in various building types including projects in education, institutional developments and in commercial mixed use projects as well as residential condominiums. Gieto Sugianto has been actively involved in the sustainable design and design development. Numerous project under his leadership have won several sustainability awards, including the Singapore BCA Green Mark Gold + and Platinum Awards. These include the PA Headquarters, Tampines Grande and Tampines Concourse among others. He has been overseeing the implementation of Design Development and Detailing skills amongst all staff at A61. In particular, he has overseen Design and Design Development on large and award winning projects including The Heeren-mixed development, Newton Gems, Nanyang Junior College, 42 Cairnhill Condominium, Changi Airport Terminal 1 Redevelopment. His interests goes beyond the sustainable and excellent design. He has shown a great interest in the conservation of heritage buildings and won the prestigious URA heritage award for the famous philanthropist conservation house of the late Tan Chin Tuan. Recently he has won several limited design competitions of luxurious and super luxurious residential projects in Singapore, most of which have completed construction. |
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Engr Gurmit Singh K.S Chairman Gurmit Singh |
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Hardeep Singh Country Manager – India Hardeep has spent 15 years working for manufacturers of products used in the construction industry. For the past more than 2 years he has been working for Forbo Flooring Systems and is currently the Country Manager for India. Forbo is the third largest resilient manufacturer in the world and has been the leader in sustainability initiatives for decades. The current environmental situation has become a matter of concern for all. Being related to this field, he sees one of the solutions to the above is the usage of sustainable building materials during construction. This is an outcome of a design philosophy that focuses on the overall Life Cycle of the product and thereby increases the efficiency of the resource use while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment. Hardeep has actively participated and has been involved with many programs and seminars conducted by the (IGBC) Indian Green Building Council. He is a graduate with a degree in Civil Engineering and a Masters in Business Administration from Delhi. |
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Harry Verhaar Senior Director Energy & Climate Change Harry Verhaar has over 20 years of experience in the lighting industry, currently being Senior Director Energy & Climate Change at Philips Lighting, heading the global Energy Efficiency program (also called `Green Switch`). He has in the past five years been the architect of the lighting strategy on energy and climate change, which has resulted in a pro-active industry position on phasing out of old lighting technologies for street-ligthing; office & industry lighting and residential lighting. This program has over the last four years obtained significant global media exposure, and has been included in the EU Climate Change package of March 9th 2007, as well as in the Energy Independence & Security Act in the USA. The Philips call to phase-out incandescent lighting (made in December 2006) has generated global support (by the European Commission; the International Energy Agency, and a growing number of countries and states, i.e. Australia, USA; EU27; Korea etc). Previously he was responsible for the marketing activities of the professional lamps activities in Europe. Prior to that he has lived for five years in São Paulo Brazil, of which the last two as commercial manager of the professional lighting activities in Latin America. Before that he has held various positions in product marketing management and product and technology development for Philips Lighting in Turnhout, Belgium, and Eindhoven, The Netherlands. |
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Heiko Bugs Partner and Director Heiko is a partner and director at Solidiance, a marketing and innovation strategy consulting firm with focus on growth in Asia Pacific. Solidiance has offices in China, Thailand, Singapore and India. Before moving to India, Heiko has spent his last 9 years in South and East China, participating in China’s rapid development as economic power house. He started his career in Asia in 1994 working for a manufacturing joint-venture in South Korea before moving back to Germany, He then spent time in a German consulting firm focusing on organizational restructuring with SAP. Prior to joining Solidiance, he led the China operation of an international management consulting company with four offices in China and Europe where he advised international companies on market entry and growth strategies. Key clients: Alstom, Samsung, Siemens, Rockwell, Nokia, Microsoft, NTT DoCoMo, Voest Alpine, SCA, Dow Chemicals, DuPont, Stiebel Eltron, Philips, Alcatel Lucent and Sulzer. Heiko has presented China topics at more than 30 international conferences and has been focusing for the last five years on the rapidly developing economic relationship between India and China and its global strategic impact. Heiko studied Economics and Information Technology at Mannheim University, Germany and holds an MBA (with Honors) from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA. |
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Jin Kim Hong Kong Operations and Regional Business Development Manager Jin has more than 20 years in BMS industry, and manages a network of system integrators delivering landmark projects in the region. His keen awareness of the value cycle and positioning is the driver for the promotion of integrated solution to many stake holders of the building industry where Schneider Electric has a strong focus in delivering a higher business value of Energy awareness, efficiency and sustainability. |
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Dato’ Dr Ken Yeang Principal Dr. Ken Yeang is the world's leading architect in ecological and passive low energy design. He is best known as the inventor of the Bioclimatic skyscraper (as a genre of low-energy skyscrapers based on bioclimatic design principles), and for his novel ideas on designing the high-rise building type as vertical urban design. He has delivered over 200 built projects and his 'bioclimatic' towers have had an impact around the world, fusing high-tech and organic principles. |
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G. Lalchand Technical Advisor Ir. Lalchand has been in the electric power supply industry for over 40 years, and is currently engaged on the UNDP/GEF supported MBIPV preject since Jan. 2006. He served TNB (& its predecessors, LLN & CEB) for a total of about 37 years, including about 6 years after retirement on specific contract assignments. He has been invovled with Danish consultants under DANCED & DANIDA projects for about 6 years over the last decade during which he was involved on Energy Efficeincy & Renwable Energy studies and the EE/DSM project at ST as well as design of the LEO Building of the Ministry of Energy, Green Technology and Water (MEGTW). He led the IEM’s Position Paper committee on EE whose findings & recommendations were presented to Y. B. Minister in July 2009. He is also engaged as a Resource Expert for PTM in managing the MEGTW sponsored Nationall Energy Efficiency Master Plan project being executed by a consulting consortium (comprising ocal & foreign experts. |
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Martin C Hay RIBA Manager – Architecture Martin Hay sits on the GHD Sustainability Advisory Group and is responsible for the implementation of sustainable strategies within GHD. He was recently invited as part of an expert panel, to discuss how legislation for sustainable development and green buildings, might be implemented in Qatar. He is involved on behalf of GHD, with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. |
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Ray Thompson Director Ray has been Involved in insulation and building energy efficiency for over 30 years. He has tertiary qualifications in Science and Economics and has applied both these disciplines to helping governments and building industries develop cost effective solutions to meeting the demand for more energy efficient buildings across the Asia-Pacific region. Ray has attended numerous international energy efficiency conferences and meetings and currently works closely with the Australian government on building energy efficiency policies. He lived in Malaysia for three years in the 1980’s when working with Bradford Rockwool Malaysia Sdn Bhd. |
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M Selvarasu Director Selvarasu is an Electrical Engineer with a post-graduation in management with 20 years of work experience in the areas of Energy Management and Green Buildings. He has conducted more than 200 energy audits and training program in India and abroad. He is the First LEED AP & Faculty in India accredited by USGBC and the funding member of India Green Building Council. He has represented India in the World GBC from 2003 & 2005. Selvarasu has facilitated more than 10 buildings achieving LEED ratings in India and Dubai. He has also conducted more than 200 LEED workshops in India, Mexico, Dubai and Sri Lanka. He has played pivotal role in bringing LEED to India also played crucial role in indigenizing LEED rating to suit India. Selvarasu played critical role in introducing LEED rating in Dubai and has presented many papers in international seminars across the globe. Selvarasu currently owns a company “LEAD Consultancy Services” in Bangalore, India to offer Turnkey solutions to LEED green building rating. He is at the present managing more than 50 projects in India for LEED rating and is a leading LEED consultant in India. |
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Sufian Abdullah Vice President II Research & Development Innovation Sufian is the Head of the Research & Development Innovation at Sime Darby Property. He is an architect by training with degrees in architecture from the Canterbury School of Architecture. He has 12 years of experience working in the UK and Malaysia in the fields of architecture, communication media and property development. At Sime Darby Property, he spearheads the company's innovation and product value creation work focusing on bringing the value of sustainability to its market base. Recently, he is the project leader for the Sime Darby Idea House project which showcases the latest innovations in eco-architecture, high performance design and modular construction. |
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Silas Chiow Director Silas Chiow has a proven track record for successful outcomes and offers an unique array of expertise that includes architecture, planning, project mangement, and business development. He has won first prize at the Yokohama International Urban Design Competition and was invited to collacorate on Japan-based projects. He has strong partnerships with China’s government regulatory bodies, officials, and design institutes. |
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Terence Chong Executive Director Terence Chong is the Executive Director of JI Green Sdn Bhd, which is a subsidiary of Jasa Infra Group of Companies in Malaysia. He is also the Executive Director of Green Home Furnishing Pte Ltd in Singapore. His company has won the Sole Distributor Rights for Patented Eco-friendly Water Printed Wood Plastic Composite Products for the South East Asia Region. And, with the support from the Parent Company and their Manufacturer, they aim to be the Premium Supplier of Green Building Materials in Malaysia and the region. Prior to his venture into the Building Materials Industry, Terence Chong is an ex-banker, working in a foreign bank in Shanghai as Vice President of Private Banking Department as well as Banks in Singapore. He holds a Bachelor Degree from the University of Queensland, Australia. |
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Zack H. Shariff Technical Advisor Mr. Shariff has over 25 years of experience in design, quality control, and project management of building mechanical, electrical, plumbing, fire protection (MEP/FP) and Data Telecommunication systems. His area of specialty is the design of HVAC systems including: energy management and control systems for medical facilities, data centers, corporate headquarters, educational facilities, multifamily housing, and justice facilities. Mr. Shariff has designed and retrofitted multiple projects which have included renovation of chilled and hot water systems, all air systems and glycol systems for 24/7 operations. The system upgrades have also included the incorporatation of energy conservation measures into the designs which reduced the operating costs of the building MEP systems. Mr. Shariff’s expertise includes high performance and sustainable building design and helping clients achieve LEED certification for their buildings. Mr. Shariff’s expertise in HVAC design and management of the complete MEP/FP/IT design process, as the Chief MEP/FP/IT engineer of multiple projects exceeding several hundred million dollars, provides the appropriate emphasis on the needs of the client and to the full design and quality management of the project |
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