Announcement
Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research announced the establishment of the Built Environment Industry Innovation Council (BEIIC) and the appointment of Ms Sue Holliday as the inaugural chair of the BEIIC on 2 September at the 2008 Built Environment Meets Parliament Summit.
The BEIIC acts as an advisory body to the Minister and as an innovation advocate for the industry. The Council considers industry innovation challenges like climate change, sustainability and industry competitiveness as well as issues such as regulatory reform, workforce capability, skills needs, access to new technologies and other priorities for industry.
The BEIIC will provide leadership to the built environment sector. It will communicate the Government's innovation policies and goals, build relationships and linkages with the Enterprise Connect Network, peak industry bodies and other stakeholders.
Membership of the Council
Senator Carr announced the members of the BEIIC on 30 October 2008 and addressed the Council at its inaugural meeting.
Sue Holliday - BEIIC Chair - Managing Director, Strategies for Change
Greg Barlow - Manager, Sustainable Buildings, Leighton Contractors
Ross Batstone - Executive General Manager, Boral Plasterboard, Boral Ltd
Prof Catherin Bull - Elisabeth Murdoch Professor of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne
Tristram Carfrae – Arup Fellow and Chair, Global Building Sector, Arup
Peter Gow – Executive Director, Building Industry Development, Department of Housing and Works, Western Australia
Mal Grierson - Director General, Department of Public Works, Queensland
Dr Ralph Horne – Director, Centre for Design, Portfolio of Design and Social Context, RMIT University
Dr Matthew Inman – Program Leader, Urban Systems, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems
Prof Martin Loosemore – Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales
Ken Maher – Chairman, Hassell
John McCarthy AO – Chairman, AEH Property, AEH Group
Prof Peter Newman – Professor of Sustainability, The Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute, Curtin University
Dave Noonan – National Secretary (Construction), Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union
Paul O'Keefe – Chief Executive, Australian Coated and Industrial Markets, BlueScope Steel Ltd
Roger Olds – Managing Director, Coffey International Ltd
Pru Sanderson – Chief Executive Officer, Victorian Urban Development Authority
Kerstin Thompson – Principal, Kerstin Thompson Architects
Siobhan Toohill – General Manager, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Stockland
Commonwealth Representatives
Dr Michael Green – General Manager, Manufacturing Innovation Branch, Manufacturing Division, Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
Stephen Oxley– Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency Branch, Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
Meetings of the Council
Current Priority Prjects
The BEIIC has identified the following three priority issues for 2008-09:
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Procurement Practice: Impediments to innovation and opportunities for change.
- Retrofitting Residential Precints: Current practice, new strategies and industry training responses.
- Innovative Practices in the Australian Built Environment Sector: An information resource for stakeholders.
The Department has commissioned research projects for each of these issues. The final reports will be considered in the Council’s advice to Senator Carr and published on this website.
Other Initiatives:
A sub-group of the BEIIC is working with the Research Infrastructure Branch of DIISR on research infrastructure needs for the built environment and engaging with the Australian Research Council on built environment research funding.
DIISR is supporting the methodological element of the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council (ASBEC) project Constructing Cities of the Future. This project will form advice to the Built Environment Industry Innovation Council.
BEIIC Stakeholder Forum 24 April 2009 Canberra
The BEIIC agreed at its first meeting in October 2008 that a stakeholder forum be organised in 2009 to provide a mechanism for the Council to engage with peak industry bodies and other stakeholders. A wide range of stakeholders attended a forum in Canberra on 24 April 2009 to assist the BEIIC to identify industry innovation priorities. These will be considered in BEIIC's strategic priority setting and future project development.
Contact
The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research provides secretariat support to the Council. The Departmental contact is:
Peter Sesterka
Manager, BEIIC Secretariat
GPO Box 9839
CANBERRA ACT 2601
Ph. 02 6213 7224
E-mail psesterka@innovation.gov.au
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