AIA Intl Australia - How Developers Can Embrace Change by Value Adding to Projects to benefit stakeholders, benefit end users, and benefit the public.
Event Description
With the world requiring reduction in greenhouse gases and the targets set for 2030 and 2050 becoming political footballs, some innovative thinking is required on how projects need to be focused.
The entranced nature of building in Australia has necessitated a rethink on how we build.
Projects have become bigger, more costly, more inefficient, requiring greater energy, more skilled labour and longer build times.
We are looking at four advanced modular building types and how they are linked in resolving some of these problems:
Social Housing
Build to rent
Student Accommodation
Affordable Luxury Hotels using cross laminated timber
From past projects this Developer has a background of thinking outside the box.
This talk will give confidence that the world can be made a better place if we all look at the possibilities of value adding and taking care of the built and natural environment, showing how seemingly unrelated issues can turn adversity into a benefit.
CES: Estimated 1 LU/ HSW for AIA Members
Speaker
Barrie Harrop, Executive Chairman, Thrive Construct
Moderator: Simon Wells, Intl Assoc. AIA, AIA International Country Representative - Australia
Barrie Harrop is a Project Developer/Co-Partner of complex large scale urban/CBD/Energy projects.
Specialties: Entrepreneurial skills
Understanding market needs, putting in place the professional teams based on strong past successful long term relationships, investors support, getting the image right/marketing strategy, researching markets, finding the right partners, executing and delivering major complex Urban/CBD projects on time on budget, with exceptional quality, detail and finishes.
Asia/America/Europe/ China Network
Relationships built on trust and sound skills in communication, sensitivity and intellectual ability.
A wide network of relationships made throughout Australia, America, Europe, Asia, India, UK, China and Japan through successful venture projects.
On instructions from a Beijing based Private Equity Co (Tengri) Executive Chairman/ substantial shareholder, for a planned Luxurious Destination Resort/Casino/New Eco City-up to 400,000 people, retained, briefed and instructed Architect & Planners, Engineers, Quantity Surveyors (cost control) and managed development of our concept plan for a major Destination Resort. The project developed estimated future value over 5-10-20 years over $40bn, to be built progressively in this time frame. Exited mid-January 2020. Recently invited back to Chairman’s Role to reconfigure post COVID-19.
Over the years
Developed many large-scale projects where innovations ideas have become well know identities or landmarks, changing directions of Major Cities/Urban Communities with complex planning in projects up to current developed value over $20bn+.
Leading the trend back to City of Adelaide after 100 years of limited activity, luxury town housing with a vast range of large luxury inner city housing projects like Brougham, Montefiore/many others over 25 years, since reversed the decline of the Residential population, creating a much more vibrant City.
Moderator: Simon Wells has been self-employed since 1981 specialising in refurbishing hotels, luxury retail, warehousing and small multi-unit residential developments in Australia and New Zealand.
A graduate of the University of New South Wales, Simon is a Registered Architect in the Australian States of New South Wales and Victoria and is an International Associate of the American Institute of Architects and a Member of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.
