Conference Day Two: Wednesday 5th May 2010

9.00 Welcome Back From Conference Chair

Revenue Generation and Bottom-Line Value from your Property

9.10 Addressing Compliance Across A Dispersed Portfolio

  • Understanding the potential impact of new compliance policies
  • Balancing service delivery, compliance and budgetary obligations
  • The human and organisational side of compliance and duty of care obligations
  • Using risk management to safeguard owners, administrators and the public on duty of care responsibilities

Michael Carabetta
Head of Portfolio Management
ING REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT

9.50 Developing High Quality Portfolio Assets And Good Tenant Diversification

  • Developing intensive management of your portfolio with a focus on cash flow
  • Progressing development pipeline and de-risking developments
  • Providing office buildings as A grade: analysing the benefits
  • Spreading the risk: having a diversified tenant sector and geographic location
  • Cutting edge management through integrated model -property, asset and development management
  • Top strategies for portfolio management

Richard Burton
Managing Director
AMP CAPITAL OFFICE AND INDUSTRIAL

Work-Place Design and Efficiency

10.30 Morning Tea And Networking

11.00 Implementing Sustainability Practices And Renewable Energy Technologies As An Alternative Income Stream For The Building

  • Showcasing technology that enables buildings to use up to 60 percent less energy
  • Integrating onsite generation of power to match the building’s demands
  • Incorporating leading-edge and commercially practical technologies to lessen energy consumption
  • Demonstrating the use of realistic energy supply alternatives
  • Optimising orientation to maximise natural daylight and minimum use of artificial light
  • Implementing energy management programs and water saving devices on hydraulic fittings and fixtures
  • Analysing environmental management system and energy efficient performance
  • Monitoring and controlling building services such as heating and cooling

James McGregor
Energy System Manager
CSIRO

11.40 Retro Greening: Providing A Business Case For Your Organisation To Evaluate The Advantages And Disadvantages Of Going Green

  • Analysing the Fairfax project: looking at design challenges of attaining green outcomes
  • Driving dollar value out of your investments: does green make sense for your organisation?
  • Analysing the steps towards reducing energy consumption by 30%
  • Investigating the decision making process for going green: analysing outcomes Fairfax are looking for and why

Anthony Cullen
Group Manager Administrative Services
FAIRFAX

12.20 Lunch And Networking Hour

1.20 Capitalising On Opportunities: Gaining Maximum Potential From Your Building

  • Getting more and more out of space
  • Analysing ESD building features
  • Gaining accreditation for green star
  • Overcoming challenges in design processes
  • Attaining right balance of a small building that’s economical to run yet allowing possibility to increase capacity

Tony Foran
Senior Project Manager, Facilities Management
DEPARTMENT OF SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENT VIC

2.00 Mastering The Art Of Commercial Property Investing: The A-Z Of Legal Agreements

Commercial property transactions involve not only complex legal factors but also other factors including planning considerations, environmental liabilities, investment issues and tax on transactions. This session will guide you through the factors to watch out for and what you can improve on.

  • Investigating the right approach for your property portfolio: proving maximum ROI from your properties
  • Analysing your current lease conditions: Granting and taking leases
  • Knowing the risks, and how to improve income
  • Acquiring and disposing of investment properties
  • Having diversified licences to assign, underlet, alter and for change of use

Mark Mazurkiewicz
Manager – City Property
BRISBANE CITY COUNCIL

2.40 Analysing Trends In Green Leasing And Environmental Management

  • Investigating future environments that are likely to affect your property needs and portfolio
  • Analysing the five essential elements of green lease schedules
  • Understanding challenges, obligations and responsibilities of green buildings
  • Overcoming supply chain issues and market transformation
  • Embracing environmental sustainability: a strategic initiative

Lloyd Woodford
Director, Government Energy Efficiency Section
DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, WATER, HERITAGE AND THE ARTS

3.20 Afternoon Tea And Networking

4.00 A Practical Approach To Improving Operational Efficiencies

  • Providing an overview of Sydney Water’s property portfolio: looking at ways to increasing efficiency
  • Implementing a workplace accommodation program
  • Property rationalisation: managing property more effectively and efficiently
  • Implementing effective facilities management into your organisation

Gary Inberg
Group Property Manager
SYDNEY WATER

4.40 Managing Native Title Agreements When Expanding Your Portfolio

  • Discussing how native title issues may arise
  • Managing native title issues
  • Examining native title system reforms
  • Managing heritage assets: Analysing, auditing and maintaining your heritage portfolio
  • Master-planning a major heritage asset
  • Negotiating to reach a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ for selfregulation of heritage assets

Sally Nelson
Secretary, Future Acts and Systems Coordination Branch, Native Title Unit
ATTORNEY GENERALS DEPARTMENT

5.20 Closing Remarks From Conference Chair

5.30 Close Of Conference