EARTH BUILDING ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA

EBAA ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2010

17th – 19th September 2010
Eltham Community and Reception Centre, 801 Main Rd, Eltham
Thermal Mass verses Insulation,
Affordable Earth Housing,
Earth Buildings for Bushfires

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

DAY 1: Friday 17th September

8.30am Registration
9.30am Welcome by EBAA Patron: Professor Allan Rodger, Professor Emeritus,
The University of Melbourne
10.00am Conference Opening: Geoffrey London, Victorian Government Architect
10.30am Introduction: Peter Hickson, President EBAA
11.00am Morning Tea (provided for all delegates & speakers)
11.30am Keynote Address: Terry Williamson, Assoc Prof University of Adelaide, School of Architecture
Landscape Architecture and Urban Design More Politics than Science: The Dirt on Star Ratings
12.30pm Lunch (provided for all delegates & speakers)
1.30pm Linda Dvorak, Master of Engineering, Sustainable Energy, RMIT Housing in bushfire prone
areas: Assessment of exterior walls reveals optimal choice
2.30pm Garry Baverstock, AM. B.Arch, MSc, LFRAIA, MISES, MANZSES; Adjunct Professor, Murdoch
University, Role of the Built Environment in Addressing Climate Change
3.00pm Afternoon Tea (provided for all delegates & speakers)
3.30pm James Fricker, B.MechEng, CPEng, F.AIRAH, M.EngAust Independent Consulting Thermal
Engineer: Basics of the thermal comfort performance of buildings
4.00pm Forum: Question and Answer session with Expert Panel and Moderator
5.00pm Networking
6.30pm Dinner, Eltham Community Hall (provided for all delegates & speakers)

8.00pm EBAA Annual General Meeting (open to all though only members can vote)
DAY 2: Saturday 18th September

8.30am Registration
9.30am John Moffin, CEO, Jack Thompson Foundation Housing homelands communities into the future
10.30am Morning Tea (provided for all delegates & speakers)
11.00am Anthony Pease, Some Structural and Technical Aspects of Earth Building
12.00noon Lunch (provided for all delegates & speakers)
1.00pm Veronica Soebarto, Associate Professor University of Adelaide, School of Architecture
Landscape Architecture and Urban Design: Challenges of Earth Buildings
2.00pm Angel Benson & Anthony Pease: Passive Solar Design, Bushfires and Earth Building
2.30pm Afternoon Tea (provided for all delegates & speakers)
3.00pm Dean Farago Earth Render Specialist Traditional surface treatments, and options today
3.30pm Daryl Taylor IntegralEvolution Green Cross, adobe & other green realities
4.30pm Rob Hadden Builder: Anyone can build a comfortable, sustainable home
5.30pm Networking
6.30pm EBAA Conference Dinner at Eltham’s famous and beautiful Montsalvat, with special Guest
Speaker Richard Glover of ABC Radio
Please book your place for what will be a very special and entertaining evening ($45/head).
Montsalvat is licensed with drinks payable on consumption.

DAY 3: Sunday 19th September

8.30am Bush breakfast, 96 Mine Road Nutfield hosted by Rob Freeland, AMCER (provided for all
delegates & speakers)
9.30am Workshops & Trade Displays
- AMCER : Pressed Earth brick production and testing, & new model compact plants
- James Henderson, Henderson Clayworks: Raw earth rendering and finishes – a voyage of
discovery in clay and straw
12.00noon Lunch at 96 Mine Road, Nutfield (provided for all delegates & speakers)