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Designers Breakfast Sponsor

The Landscape Australia Expo Designers Breakfast and Seminar is dedicated to the Designers and Architects of Perth providing a free continental breakfast and specific seminar including topics on key industry challenges and water sensitive urban design. The full schedule of events is below:

To register your interest in attending the event please provide your contact details and number of people you would like to attend with to info@landscapeexpo.com.au before 1st March 2012.

Spaces are limited so don't miss out.

Schedule for Events:

Time	Thursday 24^th May 2012	Speaker
8:00	Designers and Architects Arrive
8:30	Designers Breakfast commences Introduction to event at 8.50am
9:00	Sustainable Urban Landscapes - Integrating Environment, Community and Place Over the past 5 years, Josh Byrne has been involved in some of the most exciting landscape projects in Western Australia. His presentation will case study several recent flagship projects that demonstrate what is possible when clients are committed to innovation and the local community get behind them.	Speaker: Josh Byrne Josh Byrne is an environmental scientist with a passion for appropriate technology and innovative environmental design. Best known for his role as the WA presenter on ABC TV’s Gardening Australia program, he is also the Director of Josh Byrne & Associates, a multi-award winning landscape design, environmental consultancy and communications company based in Fremantle, WA. Josh also holds an adjunct lecturer position with the School of Environmental Science at Murdoch University where he lectures on topics related to sustainable urban landscapes and urban water management.
9:30	The Urban Sanctuary: Elements of design for small private gardens With houses getting unsustainabily larger and sites getting smaller and smaller, it is important for designers to understand the elements of good site design and not be too influenced by passing trends and fashions.	Speaker: Janine Mendal
10:00	Why planners and engineers are getting involved in Landscape Design This talk will outline the process of delivering better urban water management outcomes in WA, highlighting the role of Landscape Architects and Designers in contributing to the creation of more sustainable, water friendly places and spaces that are able to deliver both ecological and community benefits through increased water efficiencies and the integration of stormwater flows into the landscape.	Speaker: Shelley Shepherd Shelley Shepherd is the A/Program Manager of New Water Ways, which is the Western Australian capacity building program for water sensitive urban design. Shelley is an environmental planner with significant experience gained in State and Local Government and the private sector. Shelley has been working with Government at many levels to raise awareness of how to better integrate environmental issues into planning, as she was the lead consultant in the preparation of Better Urban Water Management (WAPC, 2008) and provided substantial input into the recently released Directions Paper on the Integration of NRM and Land Use Planning (WAPC, 2011).
10:30	Designers Breafast Concludes