DOHA: A leading expert will measure the carbon footprint of the first annual Qatar Green Building Conference being held here on April 27 and April 28, Qatar Green Building Council (QGBC), organisers of the conference said yesterday.
The conference will bring together local, regional and international experts , academia, NGOs and government and civil society representatives.
Jane Anderson, QGBC’s lead carbon footprinting specialist and Principal Consultant at Thinkstep, a worldwide leading environmental consultancy group with subsidiaries across four continents, will be measuring the conference’s carbon footprint using a variety of techniques and processes.
The carbon footprinting techniques will include measuring the operational energy consumed per square metre of the conference area, consumption of food and beverages, as well as the distance travelled by participants and their mode of transportation, among other activities.
The findings of the study will feature in a comprehensive sustainability report to be released after the conference that hopefully will inspire other event organisers, businesses, companies and institutions in Qatar and the region to follow suit, QGBC said in a statement.
While the conference is an opportunity for QGBC to strengthen its established relationships, it is also a forum to facilitate key partnerships with all sector stakeholders, especially those between industry, innovators and academia.
Pursuing this agenda, QGBC has sought to not only produce an academic conference, but also to include an exhibition of new green technology. This provides ample opportunity for the industry’s ‘green innovators’ to present examples of their work in a series of seminars, parallel to the main conference. International experts will also be on hand to network at a series of breakfast one-to-one sustainability clinics. Hundreds of professionals, manufacturers and suppliers, project managers and property consultants have already signed up for the event.
The Peninsula
