Bryon Price, Chair, Facility Management Association of Australia (FMA)

Bryon Price is a professional engineer with long and notable experience in building services. He is the Strategic Development Director for the A.G. Coombs Group of Companies.
Bryon is Chair of the Board of the Facility Management Association of Australia and Chair of the FMA’s Knowledge and Advocacy Portfolio Groups. He is a long-standing member of the Board of the Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Air conditioning and Heating – AIRAH, and a member of the Board of Australian Refrigeration and Building Services – ARBS. He is a Co-Chair of The International WELL Building Institute Task Force on COVID-19 and Other Respiratory Infections.

Ivan Fernandez, Industry Director, Frost & Sullivan

For over 20 years Ivan has been tracking market and technology trends across diverse fields, including smart urban infrastructure technologies, buildings and facilities management, energy and environmental technologies, process control and automation, and mining and manufacturing. Currently Industry Director at Frost & Sullivan, a global research and consulting firm, Ivan’s consulting experience has included market opportunity assessments, end-user analysis, technical and management due diligence, and competitive analysis.

Dr Rachel Morrison, Associate Professor, Auckland University of Technology

Dr Rachel Morrison is an Associate Professor within the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law at the Auckland University of Technology (AUT). Rachel’s primary research area is the way the physical work environment impacts employee well-being and productivity, with a particular focus on interpersonal relationships and collaboration at work. Rachel has an interest in optimising the use of shared workspaces and those with unassigned seating while raising awareness of potential adverse outcomes for workers. She examines both the positive (cooperative/friendly/supportive) and negative (distracting/hostile) aspects of co-worker interactions. Rachel has published articles in a variety of academic Management and Psychology journals including Applied Ergonomics, Sex Roles, and the Journal of Management & Organization. In addition, she has also contributed to several books as either author, co-author or co-editor, including editing two research volumes on organisational relationships; Friends and Enemies in Organizations: A work Psychology Perspective and Relationships in Organizations: A work Psychology Perspective.

Click below for two-minute reads of Rachel’s research relating to the physical environment of work.
Goodbye to the crowded office: how coronavirus will change the way we work together
How women’s life-long experiences of being judged by their appearance affect how they feel in open-plan offices
Get out of my face! We’re more antisocial in a shared office space

Andy Walmsley

Andy has experience conducting applied research within the construction industry. He previously worked on the BRANZ Suicide within Construction report, which explored risk and protective factors among 300 coronial files of men who had committed suicide. Andy is currently completing his PhD on suicide prevention within the construction industry and has collected data from 800 men from a wide range of construction-related roles. He has spent the past three years researching the topic, and has worked on a range of research projects to improve men’s wellbeing within the work environment. To help with his research, he received a research grant from the FMANZ Foundation in 2019. Andy also works within the mental health sector, as a clinical psychology intern at Taranaki Hospital.

Tracy will also offer insight into:

• Increasing your awareness of how, where and when AM and FM connect
• Enhancing your ability to develop tools for decision making and prioritisation
• Operationalising strategies and tactics from a service delivery (people) and asset (housing) perspective
• The impact of change and value of collaboration in procurement
• Identifying opportunities to improve both your organisational and personal AM and FM capability

Tracy Massam, Tāmaki Regeneration Company

Tracy is Asset Manager for the Tāmaki Regeneration Company, helping to ensure the people of Tāmaki have an awesome place to live, work and raise a family. She has spent seven years in risk, asset and facilities management for Auckland Council, and 10 years with the Ministry of Education in senior advisory roles. Tracy has a wealth of asset management planning knowledge and is experienced in establishing and maintaining asset management systems to ensure the desired level of service is reached in the most cost-effective manner, for present and future users. Alongside her work, Tracy is on the board of the NZ chapter of the Asset Management Council, and is on the board of COMET Auckland – Te Hononga Akoranga.

Jack Crutzen, Director, Prisma Facilities Management

Bio to come.

In Defence of Sustainability – Lee and her team are tasked with implementing a sustainability framework (Tuku Iho) for theNZDF estate. Their goal? A fit-for-purpose and sustainable estate that enables the delivery of Defence outputs. During this interactive workshop Lee will share some of the tools and methods used, talk us through the journey so far, and share key learnings. “I’ll take a look at where we want to be, where we are heading and how we are getting there with all of the moving parts – whole-of-life, policy, resilience, climate change, energy, water, waste, transport, FM, AM, design, delivery, and so on,” says Lee. “Also, the groundwork of organisation development that needs to happen in consultation phases to make implementation possible.”

Zeroing in on CarboNZero Buildings – The demand in New Zealand for high performance, low carbon buildings is in a rapid growth phase. While designing for energy efficiency has been prevalent in the building industry for some time, achieving zero carbon buildings requires an increased focus on actual operational stage performance and avoidance of on-site fossil fuel combustion in existing buildings. Timothy’s presentation focuses on Beca’s recent experience assisting a range of clients to achieve low carbon buildings. He will summarise several project case studies and drill down into the specifics of each project, the various energy efficiency and carbon displacement strategies adopted, and the key findings and resulting performance outcomes. Timothy will also provide an overview of the minimum evidence requirements to demonstrate NZGBC CarboNZero certification and the practical measures FMs can start adopting to align with the standard.

Dr Lee Bint, Sustainability Manager, NZDF

When she joined the New Zealand Defence Force’s Defence Estate and Infrastructure Group as Sustainability Manager in 2017, Lee was tasked with developing a sustainability framework (Tuku Iho), and is now in the process of implementing this. Before joining NZDF, Lee spent six years at BRANZ as a Sustainable Building Scientist, and two years on the Sustainable Business Council board as their Future Leader.

Timothy Howarth, Building Services Engineer, Beca

Bio to come.

David Eaton, Associate Director, Cybersecurity Services, Datacom Ltd.

David is passionate about helping businesses develop a better cybersecurity and risk posture in a challenging and rapidly changing landscape. In his current role as Associate Director Cybersecurity at Datacom, David is responsible for Datacom’s cybersecurity services across Australia and New Zealand, involving advisory services and cybersecurity operations. He is a Member of the NZ Computer (Cyber) Emergency Response Team (CERT) Advisory Board, and Chair of the NZ Ministerial Cyber Capability Taskforce, formed as part of the New Zealand cyber strategy to create education pathways into the cybersecurity profession in New Zealand.