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In commemoration of

and

Singapore EXPO

Convention & Exhibition Centre

www.internationalskyrisegreeneryconference.com

2nd ANNOUNCEMENT


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Welcome Message

After the success of the inaugural International Skyrise Greenery Conference (ISGC) in 2010,

we are pleased to launch ISGC 2013, entitled Density & Greenery: Evolving Into

Collaborative Cities.

The creation of skyrise greenery is becoming ever more complex. Increased design

aspirations, space constraints and development densities are posing challenges whichrequire close working partnerships and knowledge exchange between the various skyrise

greenery stakeholders. This years Conference is a partnership between Singapores National

Parks Board, Singapore Institute of Landscape Architects, Landscape Industries Association

of Singapore, and Singex. By bringing together stakeholders from the various sectors of the

landscape community, we aim to create a multi-disciplinary and collaborative knowledge-

sharing platform revolving around skyrise greenery.

By engaging speakers from diverse backgrounds, the Conference will elevate the benchmark

of professional knowledge and enhance the know-how of creating an environment suitable

for successful skyrise greenery projects. ISGC 2013 also includes a technical tour component

which showcases Singapore as Asias skyrise greenery hub acting as a model for other

metropolises around the world.

We hope that ISGC 2013 will serve as a platform for the holistic exchange of ideas in urban

greenery innovations, and fulll its potential of transforming our cityscapes and peoples lives.

The Conference is held alongside GreenUrbanScape Asiaand the International Landscape

Industry Association Summit.

On behalf of the committee, I look forward to welcoming you to Singapore in November.

Against a backdrop of increasing urbanisation

and the need for sustainable cities,

GreenUrbanScape Asiawill be a dynamic

marketplace for industry players to showcase

their innovative urban greenery solutions and

landscape products, and raise awareness of theirbrands to serious trade buyers from around the

world. It will also allow regional landscape and

environmental design professionals to exchange

ideas and stay abreast of market trends. To

become an exhibitor or sponsor, or for more

information, visit www.greenurbanscapeasia.com.

The Summit aims to raise the productivity

of the landscape workforce and the value

that the international landscape industry

contributes to the global economy. Incorporating

technical tours, the Summit will be a platform

for landscape practitioners from across AsiaPacic and beyond to share experiences and

perspectives in design and implementation as

well as discuss productivity initiatives.

Damian Tang

Chairman,

International Skyrise

Greenery Conference

Committee

President,

Singapore Institute of

Landscape Architects


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Opening Ceremony

Morning

Opening Address by Damian Tang, Chairman, International Skyrise Greenery Conference Committee & President, Singapore

Institute of Landscape Architects

Speech by Guest-of-Honour

Presentation of Skyrise Greenery Awards

Keynote Presentation 1 by Kathryn Gustafson(USA)

Plenary Session 1

Singapore What it Means to be Green

Dr Cheong Koon Hean, Chief Executive Officer, Housing & Development Board, Singapore

Poon Hong Yuen, Chief Executive Officer, National Parks Board, Singapore

Ng Lang, Chief Executive Officer, Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore

Afternoon

Keynote Presentation 2 by Dr Liu Thai-Ker(Singapore)

Parallel Session 1

Green is the New Black

Kelvin Kan(Singapore)

Tai Lee Siang(Singapore)

Whats Next in Research &

Development

Wolfgang Ansel(Germany)

John Rayner(Australia)

Michael Behm(USA)

Growing Value The Developers

Perspective

Speakers to be confrmed

Evening Networking Dinner

Programme

Day 1 Thursday, 7 November 2013

Morning

Parallel Session 2

From Grey to Green

The Ecological Approach

Nathalie Baumann(Switzerland)

Veera Sekaran(Singapore)

Dusty Gedge(UK)

Matthew Dillon(Australia)

The 3Ps Planning, Policies

and People

Dorthe Rm(Denmark)

Kathy Ng(Hong Kong)

Michael Berkshire(USA)

Andres Ibaez(Colombia)

What Lies Beneath Installations &

Techniques

Alan Tan(Singapore)

David Tan(Singapore)

Keynote Presentation 3 by Stefano Boeri (Italy)

Afternoon

Keynote Presentation 4 by Wong Mun Summ (Singapore)

Plenary Session 2

Greening Cities The Big Picture

Professor Wang Xiangrong(China)

Professor Manfred Kohler(Germany)

Henry Steed(Singapore)

Plenary Session 3

International Projects Highlights

Atelier Dreiseitl(Germany)

Gary Grant(UK)

Charu Kokate(Singapore)

Day 2 Friday, 8 November 2013

Programme is correct at time of print (June 2013). Please check website for updates.


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Keynote Speakers

Stefano Boeri (Italy)

Executive Councilor, Culture, Designand Fashion, Milan Municipality, Italy

Mr Boeri (1956) is an architect based in

Milan, Italy. With his studio based in Milan,

Boeri Studio (Steano Boeri, GianandreaBarreca, Giovanni La Varra, 1998-2008) and Steano Boeri

Architetti (since 2008 and rom 2011 with Michele Brunello),

he is committed to the research and practice o contemporary

architecture and urbanism nationally and internationally. He has

predominantly ocused on the design o buildings and open

spaces or European urban areas requiring regeneration or

redevelopment. He has thus undertaken and carried through

a series o projects regarding the transormation and re-use

o several waterronts (Genoa, Naples, Trieste, Salonicco,

Mytilene, La Maddalena, Marina di Carrara, Doha, etc.) and city

interventions (Milan, Rome, Venice, Bolzen, Sao Paulo, Moscow,

Beijing, Qingdao, Marseille, Astana, etc.). His projects have

been published in various magazines and exhibited both in Italy

and abroad.

Kathryn Gustafson (USA)Director,Gustafson Porter UK

Ms Gustason was born in Washington,USA, and educated at the University oWashington in Seattle, the Fashion Instituteo Technology in New York and the Ecole

National Suprieure du Paysage in Versailles where she receivedher diploma in 1979.

Ms Gustason brings over 30 years o distinguished practiceto Gustason Porter. Her award-winning work includes widelyknown series projects in France, and recently acclaimedprojects throughout Europe, North America, and the MiddleEast. Ms Gustasons design work has been predominantlycivic, institutional, and corporate. Projects have ranged in scalerom a tenth o an acre to 150 acres, including parks, gardens,and community spaces. Two partner ofces, Gustason Porterin London and Gustason Guthrie Nichol in Seattle, continueto evolve the design approach o Ms Gustasons work intonew contexts o time, culture, and nature. Ms Gustason is an

Honorary Fellow o the Royal Institute o British Architecture anda medalist o the French Academy o Architecture. She is therecipient o the ASLA Design Medal, the Chrysler Design Award,Londons Jane Drew Prize and the Arnold W. Brunner MemorialPrize or Architecture 2012.

Dr Liu Thai-Ker (Singapore)Director, RSP Architects Planners& Engineers (Pte) Ltd. Singapore FoundingChairman, Centre for Liveable Cities,Singapore

Dr Liu is an architect-planner. Since 1992,

he has been Director o RSP Architects

Planners & Engineers Pte Ltd., a consultant frm o over 1,000

people, with 11 overseas ofces and projects in 17 countries.

He was conerred Doctor o Science honoris causa by the

University o New South Wales in 1995, and has rom then held

academic positions at National University o Singapore and

Nanyang Technological University. Dr Liu is also a member

o several governmental bodies in Singapore, and planning

advisor to over 20 cities in China. Furthermore, he has

served as Chie Executive Ofcer o Singapores Housing &

Development Board and Urban Redevelopment Authority in

the decades o his career.

Among his awards are the Public Administration Medal

(Gold) 1976, the Meritorious Service Medal 1985, Singapore

Institute o Architects Gold Medal and the Medal o the City

o Paris, France in 2001. In 1993, he was bestowed the 2nd

Asean Achievement Award or Outstanding Contributions to

Architecture.

Wong Mun Summ (Singapore)Joint Founding Director, WOHA

Mr Wong is the joint ounding director

o WOHA, an internationally-acclaimed

architectural practice based in Singapore.

WOHAs projects are located throughout

Asia, and range rom private houses to luxury resorts, apartment

towers, mass-transit stations, and large-scale public buildings.

Mr Wong ormed WOHA as a partnership with Richard Hassell

in 1994. Since then, the partnership has won a large number

o local awards, and an unprecedented amount o international

awards. WOHA won the Aga Khan Award or Architecture in

2007, they were the only practice to win two categories at the

World Architecture Festival in 2009, and they collected two

awards each at the 2011 and 2010 RIBA International Awards,

as well as the prestigious 2011 Lubetkin Prize rom the RIBA. A

travelling exhibition devoted exclusively to their works opened at

the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Germany, in December 2011,

and two substantial monographs WOHA: The Architecture o

WOHA and WOHA: Selected Projects Vol. 1 have already been

published.

Wolfgang Ansel (Germany)Director,International Green Roof Association

Nathalie Baumann (Switzerland)Research Associate,Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)

Speakers

Michael Behm (USA)Associate Professor, Occupational Safety,East Carolina University, USA

Michael Berkshire (USA)Member, Board of Directors, Illinois Chapter,United States Green Building Council (USGBC)


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John Rayner (Australia)Senior Lecturer, Urban Horticulture,University of Melbourne, Australia

Kathy Ng (Hong Kong)Principal Assistant Secretary,Development Bureau, Government ofHong Kong Special Administrative Region

Dorthe Rm (Denmark)BiologistHead of Project, Public Administration, CopenhagenBoard Member, Commission Urban Green,World Green Ambassador, World GreenInfrastructure Network

Veera Sekaran(Singapore)Managing Director/Principal Consultant,Greenology Pte Ltd

Henry Steed (Singapore)Chartered Landscape Architect (UK)Member, Landscape Institute (UK) 1972Diploma in Landscape Architecture,Gloucester (UK) 1970Member, Singapore Institute ofLandscape Architects

Professor Wang Xianrong (China)President, Shanghai Ecological SocietyDeputy Chairman, Urban Ecological Commissionof Ecological Society of ChinaDirector & Professor, Centre for UrbanEco-Planning & Design, Department ofEnvironmental Science & Engineering,Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Alan Tan (Singapore)Director,Uniseal Creative Solutions Pte Ltd

Ng Lang (Singapore)Chief Executive Ofcer,Urban Development Authority

Tai Lee Siang (Singapore)President,Singapore Green Building Council

Matthew Dillon (Australia)President, Green Roofs Australasia (GRA)Board Member, World Green InfrastructureNetwork (WGIN) Technical Advisory Panel,City of Sydney

Gary Grant (United Kingdom)Chartered Environmentalist Fellow,Institute of Ecology and EnvironmentalManagement Member, Academy of UrbanismMember, All Party Parliamentary Committee onBiodiversityThesis Supervisor, Bartlett Faculty of the Built

Environment, University College London

R.Andrs Ibez G. (Columbia)Founder, BiotectonicaFounding Member & Chairman, RECIVE(Columbian Network of Vegetated Infrastructure)Founding Member, Latin American Associationof Vegetated InfrastructureFounding Member, China Green Building Council(Hong Kong Chapter)Secretary, International Council for Research &Innovation, The University of Hong Kong

Kelvin Kan (Singapore)Chartered Architect,UK (RIBA) & Singapore (MSIA)

Professor Dr.-Ing. Manfred Koehler

(Germany)Founder, Green Roof Research Center, Universityof Applied Sciences, NeubrandenburgCo-founder & President, World Green InfrastructureNetwork Member, Federal Landscape ArchitectureOrganisation (BDLA)Member, National Working Group, Green RoofGuidelines, Germany (FLL)Vice Dean, Department Landscape Architecture,Surveying, Geoinformatics & Civil Engineering,University of Applied Sciences

Poon Hong Yuen(Singapore)Chief Executive Ofcer,National Parks Board

David Tan (Singapore)Founder & Managing Director,Netatech Pte Ltd

Speakers

More speakers will be announced. Please check website for updates.

Dr. Karen Liu (Germany)Director, Research & Development,Bonar Xero Flor Germany

Charu Kokate (Singapore)Associate Principal,Safdie Architects

Dr Cheong Koon Hean (Singapore)Chief Executive Ofcer,Housing & Development BoardDeputy Secretary (Special Duties),Ministry of National Development


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Technical Tours - 9 November 2013

Route A

Skyrise Greenery: Social Spaces in the Sky

Skyrise Greenery can create social interaction spaces. On

this route, one can learn more about how these spaces

are designed or the occupants and users o the building.

Route C

The Formula Behind Our City in a Garden

Participants can fnd out how our parks and gardens contribute towards Singapores vision o a City in a Garden.

Route B

Skyrise Greenery: Beyond Commercial Value

Skyrise Greenery can bring about economic benets,

amongst many other tangible benets. Find out why

buildings owners are investing in Skyrise Greenery.

Khoo Teck Puat Hospital

The rootop gardens create atherapeutic space or patientsto help them recover aster aswell as a conducive space ordiscussion and respite or thevisitors and sta.

Parkroyal on Pickering

The hotel-in-a-gardendesign refects and enhancesSingapores garden-cityreputation, providing an oasisor their guests in downtownSingapore.

Bishan Ang Mo Kio Park

An urban park that has beenrejuvenated to include a largeconcrete canal that has beennaturalized into a meanderingriver teeming with wildlie orvisitors to interact with.

Singapore Botanic Gardens

At over 150 years old, thegarden is a world-classbotanical institution orresearch, conservation andeducation.

6 Battery Road

The vertical garden byDr Patrick Blanc creates a newacelit o greenery within anindoor space which users o themain lobby can enjoy.

HortPark

A one-stop gardeninghub that brings togethergardening-related, recreational,educational, research and retailactivities under one big canopyin a park setting.

158 Cecil Street

A cathedral o green is ormedby seamlessly integratingarchitecture, interior space andgreenery, turning an unsightlyspace into a lush green columnor the building occupants.

ITE College CentralBeing the largest collectiono green walls at a singledevelopment in the world, theseven green walls bring greenerycloser to the sta and students.

North Eastern Riverine Loop

Part o the Park ConnectorNetwork, this is an island-widenetwork o linear open spacesaround residential areas thatlinks up parks and nature

sites, bringing people closer togreen spaces and enhancingrecreational opportunities.

ITE College Central

Being the largest collectiono green walls at a singledevelopment in the world,the seven green walls bringgreenery closer to the sta andstudents.

Nanyang Polytechnic

The previously unused rootopspace is converted into apleasant environment orstudents and sta to shareideas and learn.

Punggol New TownA rootop garden withrecreational amenities allowsresidents to enjoy and interactwith their neighbours in astunning greenery setting.

Programme is correct at time of print (June 2013). Please check website for updates.

All images courtesy of National Parks Board Singapore, except Bishan - Ang Mo Kio (Mr Brice Lee), Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Parkroyal on Pickering, and ITE College Central


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The Scientic Committee invites participants to submit

their abstracts for poster presentation at ISGC 2013.

Themes & Topics

Submitted papers should relate to both the themes,

Skyrise Greenery (i.e. green roofs and vertical

greenery) and Density & Greenery: Evolving into

Collaborative Cities, on topics such as:

Design

Research, Technology and Development

Ecology and Biodiversity

Climate Change Policies and Sustainability

Abstract Submission

Abstracts of original, unpublished works are

encouraged. Participants are required to declare

whether the submitted work has been presented in

part or other formats at other conferences.

Language of abstracts must be in English.

Abstracts must address the background,

aim, location (if possible), methodology, results

and conclusion(s) of the study.

Length of abstract should not be more than

300 words.

Authors are to address both themes and

select one of the topics.

Abstracts must be submitted electronically through

the web-based submission portal. Do not e-mail

or mail hardcopies of the abstract.

Selection Procedure

To ensure a high-quality Conference, all submissions

will be assessed by the Scientic Committee for

technical merit and suitability of content.

The committee reserve the right to reject for

presentation any abstract that does not meet content

or presentation expectations. All decisions of the

committee will be nal. Final placement in a poster presentation is subject

to the Chairpersons discretion.

Submitted abstracts cannot be withdrawn.

Selection Criteria

Relevance

Technical Merit

Case studies

Completeness of the required information submitted

Poster Presentation

Authors of accepted abstracts are to submit their

work as a poster presentation that promotes

direct exchange of ideas between presenter and

conference participants. Posters will be set up in a

dedicated area at the Conference venue.

Poster specications will be released to authors of

accepted abstracts upon notication.

If the Presenting Author is unable to present the

abstract, a Co-Author can take his/her place. A letter

from the Presenting Author informing about the

change is requested and must be received by the

Conference organiser by 1 October 2013.

All Presenters will be required to register for the

Conference and pay the full two-day registration fee

by 11 October 2013.

If there is more than one author for the accepted

abstract, at least one of the authors must be

registered to present at the poster presentation.

Best Poster Award

Best posters from each of the topics will be identied

by the committee and awarded the Best Poster Award.

Poster presentations will be assessed based on the

following criteria:

Content

Layout

Completeness of the required information submitted.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract submission deadline

23 August 2013

Notication of acceptance23 September 2013

Notication of presentation schedule

15 October 2013

Call For Abstracts


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Fee (SGD)

Conference & Networking Dinner 7 & 8 November 2013

CATEGORY Early Bird(Till 31 August 2013)

Regular(From 1 September 2013)

Individual 700 850

Group (minimum 5 pax) 650 per pax 800 per pax

Supporting Organisation 650

Student 350

Conference Only 7 & 8 November 2013

Student 295

Day Rate 500

Technical Tour 9 November 2013

Rate 150

Information correct at time of print (June 2013).Printed on Enviro Wove paper.

Supported By

*All prices are quoted in Singapore dollars. An additional 7% Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be levied.

About the Host City

Singapore is well regarded internationally for our clean and green living environment, with a dense network of green corridors,

nature reserves, parks, park connectors, vertical and high-rise greenery. This is the result of ve decades of conscientious

planning and commitment at greening the city-state. Given Singapores limited land space, new and innovative programmes are

being implemented to further extend greenery in our urban landscape. These initiatives aimed to create a Singapore that will

remain lush and pervasive in greenery even as demands of development grow. Singapore has truly proven her ability to balance

economic growth with environmental sustainability, as the city remains committed to the vision of making Singapore a City in a

Garden.

For more information about Singapore, please visit www.yoursingapore.com.

Registration Fees

Organised By

Supporting Organisations

To register, please visit

www.internationalskyrisegreeneryconference.com

To nd out more, please contact

Singex Exhibitions Pte Ltd:

Gwendolyn Goh (Ms)

Tel : (65) 6403 2176

Email : [email protected]

Jane Siow (Ms)

Tel : (65) 6403 2534

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