(MENAFN- Gulf Times) The Qatar Green Building Council (QGBC) will hold its first annual Qatar Green Building Conference on April 27-28 which will bring together local, regional and international professionals and experts from industry, academia, NGOs, the public and the government.
QGBC will demonstrate its commitment to sustainability by measuring and reducing the carbon footprint of the conference itself, bridging the gap between rhetoric and practice.
Jane Anderson, QGBC's lead carbon foot printing specialist and principal consultant at Thinkstep, a worldwide leading environmental consultancy group with subsidiaries across four continents, will be measuring the conference's carbon footprint using a variety of techniques and processes. Thinkstep, previously known as PE International, is one of the largest and most respected sustainable consultancies in the world through its work advising organisations and governments.
The carbon footprinting techniques that will be applied include measuring the operational energy consumed per square metre of conference area, the consumption of food and beverages, as well as the distance travelled by participants and their mode of transportation among other activities.
The findings of the carbon footprint study will feature in a comprehensive sustainability report to be released after the conference that hopefully will inspire other event organisers, businesses, companies and institutions in Qatar and the region to follow suit.
The conference will also highlight QGBC's role as an industry thought leader and provider of a collaborative umbrella that all organisations interested in the future sustainability of Qatar's built environment can work together under. While the conference is an opportunity for QGBC to strengthen its established relationships, it is also a forum to facilitate key partnerships with all sector stakeholders, especially those between industry, innovators and academia.
QGBC has sought to not only produce an academic conference, but also to include an exhibition of new green technology. This provides ample opportunity for the industry's 'green innovators' to present examples of their work in a series of seminars, parallel to the main conference. International experts will also be on hand to network at a series of breakfast one-to-one sustainability clinics.
Hundreds of architects, engineers, academics, urban planners, innovators, landscape architects, green building product entrepreneurs, manufacturers and suppliers, project managers and property consultants have already signed up for the conference.
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