Nick has been a leader in sustainability for over 23 years - in industry and government. While his key focus has always been buildings and precincts, he has also been responsible for environmental management, renewable energy and engagement programs for industry and communities. At the GBCA Nick is a key interface with industry stakeholders, assisting them to engage with the GBCA’s services and membership offerings, to drive tangible and measurable sustainable built form outcomes. Nick is also the GBCA’s national lead on sustainable precincts, planning and infrastructure, integrating them into rating tools, technical support, education and thought leadership.

Mark is one of two Directors of Architecture HDT, and has been with the firm since 2001. Mark has been involved in a wide range of project types. The last 20 years have primarily been spent on the design, documentation, and delivery of new and refurbished municipal sports and aquatic facilities. Mark has a passion for the design and delivery of sustainable and enduring community facilities, which in conjunction with his strong organisational ability has led to highly successful outcomes for these projects. Mark is a nationally recognised expert in NZ for the development of Aquatic Facilities and has recently completed the preparation of an Environmentally Sustainable Guidebook for Sports Facilities for Sport NZ.

Nick is a building services engineer with over 15 years of experience specialising in the engineering design and operation of aquatic facilities. Nick’s career has been dedicated to making everyday better, working collaboratively with clients across Australasia on over 200 facilities. Aquatic facilities are energy intensive, requiring customised design considerations, bringing them front of mind for many councils in their climate change response and ever-increasing energy prices. In response to these unique challenges, the Beca Aquatics team have created proprietary energy software to complete a simulation of energy consumption in these facilities, enabling a unique and adaptive approach to each building. Nick and the Beca Aquatics team are strong advocates for having more people, more active, more often. This philosophy is somewhat contrary to a highly efficient aquatic facility. Using their adaptive energy simulation software, the Beca Aquatics team, alongside forward-thinking clients, are creating economically sustainable and resilient facilities for the future.