Company: BDP

Role: Chairman

Bio: Having studied architecture at the University of Sheffield and then designing housing within a small practice, David joined BDP in 1980. Attracted by the scale of projects available, the team based culture and the interdisciplinary ethos of BDP, David’s early work related primarily to city centre re-development projects. This work included mixed use developments in town and city centre locations with retail, leisure, cultural buildings and housing.

Early projects were ‘The Lanes’ in Carlisle, Marketgate in Lancaster and the Schonbuhl Centre in Lucerne, Switzerland. Later came Manchester’s Millennium Quarter, the redevelopment of Piccadilly Station Manchester and Liverpool One. More recently, David has been working on projects in Stockholm Sweden.

He was made a partner of BDP in 1990 and took over leadership of the firm’s northern studios in 1994. In 2012, David was elected as Chairman of BDP having spent the previous four years masterminding the firm’s international growth which included establishing new studios in Abu Dhabi, New Delhi and Shanghai.

As one of the UK’s largest architect led practices, BDP designs buildings and projects across many sectors including retail, education, healthcare and workplace. Recently completed and ongoing work includes the UK Pavilion at Milan Expo (with Wolfgang Buttress), Alder Hey Health Park, Strathclyde University Technology and Innovation Centre, Box Park at Croyden, Copperas Hill for Liverpool John Moores University and Astra Zeneca’s new HQ in Cambridge (with Herzog and de Meuron).

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Company: Gehl Architects

Role: Project Manager

Bio: Eveline is an enthusiastic and optimistic urban designer that strives to create great places for people. Thriving in a cross-disciplinary work environment, she collaborates with anthropologists, engineers and designers on a day to day basis to collectively solve complex urban design questions and develop comprehensive projects rooted in the Gehl methodology.

Having grown up in Europe, Asia and North America, Eveline has cultivated a strong understanding of different cultures. She uses this sensitivity as a driver in both her personal and professional life. Her work has taken to her New York, Rotterdam and now Copenhagen, where she has been involved in projects ranging from small scale urban pavilions to city-wide planning strategies.

Primarily focused on Masterplanning frameworks, Eveline is part in the ongoing process of developing and adapting this service area through a cultural, geographic and climatic lens. Trained as an architect, she is especially interested how the interface between public space and built form can be designed and programmed to support public life.

Eveline has recently completed projects for the development of a new harbour front neighbourhood in Aarhus, alongside BIG and mixed use Masterplan for the city of Red Deer in Alberta.

Eager to share her knowledge and experience, Eveline has taught and been a guest critic at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and Danish Institute for Study abroad. She is a project manager at Gehl and looks forward to exploring, new places, new challenges and new projects.

Company: Bionic City

Role: Creator&Founder

Bio: Design scientist Melissa Sterry is recognised as a world leading authority on the science, technology and thinking that could help build a brighter future. A design practice graduate, her career has been spent working with leading-edge researchers and practitioners worldwide, of which the past fifteen years have been at executive board-level. Melissa is also the founder and creator of Bionic City that asks “how would nature design a city?” and explores the potential of biomimetics, biotechnology and biology in the built environment in the now, near and far future. Underway since January 2010, Bionic City came about as a spin-off project from Melissa’s PhD research, which centres on developing city-scale resilience to major natural hazard events through mimicry of the behaviours, relationships and systems of flora and fauna species.

Her academic activities include visiting lecturer, visiting fellow, workshop host, Masters thesis supervisor, guest critic and scientific committee member at several leading European architecture and design research institutes, including The Bartlett, Ravensbourne, University of the Arts London, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, AA School of Architecture, and University of Salford.

A PhD Researcher at the Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research group at the University of Greenwich, her hypothesis posits the potential for developing city-scale resilience to major natural hazard events through the creation of complex adaptive systems that mimic the behaviours, relationships and systems of flora and fauna species.

A recipient of several national and international innovation, creativity and enterprise awards, including the Mensa Education and Research Foundation International Award for enhancing intelligence that benefits society, Melissa is listed in the 'Libertine 100’ women with complex, beautiful and potentially world-changing ideas.

Websites: www.bioniccity.co.uk and www.melissasterry.com

Twitter: @bioniccity @melissasterry

Company: Jan Kattein Architects

Role: Director

Bio:Dr Jan Kattein BSc DipArch MArch PhD is a lecturer, researcher and designer who lives and works in London. He founded award-winning practice Jan Kattein Architects in 2004.

Jan understands architecture as an interdependent process which emerges from the collaborative exchange between designers, makers and users. Shaping this dialogue is an integral part of the practice’s work. Many of JKA's projects are in the public domain. Embracing architecture as a process - rather than a product - opens the profession to communities, giving them a stake in the shaping of their environment. Several of JKA's recent projects have raised the bar of what can be achieved through stakeholder engagement and are helping to shape public policy on inner city regeneration

Sustainability is a major concern. The practice rejects the notion of a fixed design-life-expectancy common in contemporary construction. Timeless architecture has the ability to take account of its fluctuant context, accommodating cultural, political, economic and environmental changes and the cyclical nature of day-time and night-time activities.

Jan’s position as a design teacher at UCL and his research into architectural practice are driven by a concern about the role of the contemporary architect and the ambition to evolve practice into a collaborative, inclusive and empowering process. Awards include a Royal Academy 1st time exhibitor Award, the International Ring Award 2005, NLA Temporary Architecture Award, RIBA Research Award 2010 finalist, a London Planning Award and a Civic Trust Community Recognition. His book The Architecture Chronicle, Diary of an Architectural Practice was published by Ashgate in 2014.

Company: Bauman Lyons Architects

Role: Founding Director

Irena Bauman is a practicing Architect and a founding Director of Bauman Lyons Architects. She is a Professor of Sustainable at Sheffield University School of Architecture and Director of Building Local Resilience research platform. She is also an External Examiner at Manchester School of Architecture and the Chair of the Regional Design Review Panel. She was Commissioner for Commission for Architecture and the Build Environment for UK from 2002-2009.

Her practice and research are concerned with how architecture and architectural thinking can facilitate local communities to mitigate, adapt and become more resilient to the uncertainties that lie ahead. She recently completed research projects to develop Climate Change Adaptation Strategies and is currently working on Innovate UK funded projects into off site construction methods.

Her current architectural projects include urban regeneration strategy for 4 towns in Bolsover Uk and a co-produced large scale refurbishment of Silk Mill as a New Museum of Making in Derby.

She is the author of ‘How to be a Happy Architect in which she challenges the architectural establishment to be more in tune with the needs of communities. She is currently writing ‘Retrofitting Neighbourhoods –Designing for Resilience’ in which she is collating some international case studies of neighbourhood scale project which pave the way towards transformative change.

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www.baumanlyons.co.uk

https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/architecture/researchssoa/groups/resilience/events

Linkedin : Irena Bauman

Twitter: @IrenaBauman

Company: Babe?-Bolyai University

Role: Professor

Presentation title:Transport mobility and socio-spatial segregation (2 co-authors: Titus Man and Iulia Harangus)

Bio:

Current positions: Professor, Ph.D., Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; Professor, Ph.D., Institute for World and Regional Economics, University of Miskolc, Hungary; Director of the Research Centre for Spatial Economics, University of Miskolc, Hungary (http://gtk.uni-miskolc.hu/eng/researccentres).

Education, professional positions and research experience (selection):
2000: PhD, Babes-Bolyai University, Department of Human Geography; 2002-2003, Alexander von Humboldt fellowship at the Julius Maximilian University, Würzburg, Germany; 2005-2006 postdoc at the New Europe College, Bucharest; Romanian Ambassador at the Regional Studies Association, Brighton, UK; Member of the Romanian Urbanist Chamber.

Frontier research: Research interests fall into three major areas:

• 1. Regional and Urban Economic Development. This research topic goes back to his PhD on spatial relations and household typology in the rural region of Bistrita (Romania). It has since broadened to encompass the uneven geographical development, regional inequalities and spatial polarisation, the role of tourism in local and regional development, urban economic change.
• 2. Geography and Public Policy. This topic includes a range of articles and books expressing the strong commitment of the author to the policy relevance of geographic research. A current interest is in the sustainable urban transport. Research include the evaluation of regional and urban policy. 3. Human mobility. Over recent years, a key role has played to development of a better understanding of human mobility and the social vulnerability to different mobility risks.

Honorary/awards (selection):

• 1. Selected by the Institut für Donauschwäbische Geschichte und Landeskunde, Tübingen for a Research Fellowship, 1997-1998;
• 2. Selected for a DAAD Research Fellowship at the Institut for Regional Geography, Leipzig, 2000;
• 3. Selected as „Alexander von Humboldt” Research Fellow at the University Würzburg, 2002-2003;
• 4. Awarded by the National Council for Scientific Research with the Medal “In hoc signo vinces”, 2004;
• 5. Elected Academician (external member) of the Hungarian Academy of Science, Section 9: Economics and Law, Regional Science Commission, 2010.

International evaluator and editorial positions (selection): Editing Roles in 15 journals. International evaluator for the periodical evaluation of the resrearch activity of research institutions from Leibniz Association, Germany, and Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Company: Pony Car Sharing

Role: CEO

Bio:Always open to new experiences, Iulian likes to take people out of their comfort zone, in order to help them test new ways of interacting with technology and with each other. His newest entrepreneurial project implemented in Cluj only a few months ago - Pony Car Sharing, has already received national media coverage and is highly appreciated by its 2500+ active users. He's passionate about Smart Cities and creating communities, and has a wide expertise in marketing strategies and new technologies.

Company: Rockwool

Role: Technical Support Manager

Presentation Title: What does EPD means and how it is correlated with green certificates schemes?

Bio:Emilian Grigore is an experienced consultant on building science, energy efficiency and sustainability. He graduated in Civil Engineering & Management of Constructions and studied wooden houses sustainability in Denmark. He has extensive experience in International environments, working with specialists, construction experts, architects and engineers, focusing his last 4 years on the Energy Efficiency and Sustainability issues.

Working now as Technical Support Manager for ROCKWOOL BU he is responsible for product & system management, product development, certification, technical sales support, training and lecturing architects, dealers, installers and construction specialists. He was previously leading the Technical Assistance department of LAFARGE Gypsum division in Romania (today SINIAT).

Company: Dico si Tiganas

Role: President

Bio: Serban Tigans is an architect, trainer and activist for architecture. His activity is recognized in Romania through his architectural office Dico si Tiganas, a team that has almost 20 years experience and which consolidated its portfolio with well-known finished, published and awarded projects.

Serban is founder at Planwerk firm and new approaches in Romanian urbanism which are oriented to the public space architecture. As a trainer, he is interested in informing young students with the new paradigm of construction that is occurring nowadays, but also with the formation of an architect who needs to adapt to these changes.

During the last decade, he is conducting and orienting professional organizations of architects from Romania, Europe and worldwide as OAR president and member in the Architects Council of Europe and Union International des Architectes

Serban Tiganas is present in the public space through speeches, articles, interviews and publications oriented to the development of the architectural culture and the quality of life through increasing the quality of the constructed medium.

Company: Alukoenigstahl

Role: Administrator

Bio:Attila Beer has more than 20 years experience in the aluminium joinery market. He graduated the Technical University of Budapest with a Diploma of Civil Engineering, and after a short period as jurnalist, beginning with 1993 he dedicated his activity to Alukönigstahl company.

Since 1995 he managed the company’s sales team in Romania and since 2001 as the administrator for the Romanian brach of the company is engaged in the constant development of it. He has been personal involved in the most important projekts were Alukönigstahl is bringing value.

Company: Atelier Moldan

Role: Independent Researcher

Presentation Title: "Safety not guaranteed” which will focus on the principal of security by design, history and the practical applications of the concept.

Bio:Adina is a Romanian architect and researcher, with a field of studies focused on crime prevention through environmental design and security by design. Adina is a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Architecture and Urban Planning. Through her theses, ”Architecture and Violence, programs for victims and aggressors” , she researches the theories and practices in the security by design spectrum, the relation between violence and space and architectural programs concerning the justice system, crime prevention and rehabilitation.

Adina’s interests concern disenfranchised communities, vulnerable populations, design in new media and the next generation.

Other activities:

• Member of Prison Research Network, Leeds Beckett University, UK
• Doctoral School Board member at the Doctoral School of Architecture and Urban Planning (2014-2015)
• Coordinator Transylvania Architecture Biennial (2015)
• Associated teaching assistant at Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca (2012-2015)
• Founder of Atelier Moldan, active in consulting.

Company: Reynaers

Role: Country Manager

Bio:With over 15 years of business and sales experience, Daniel dedicated his last 10 years to introduce and grow Reynaers Aluminium in Romania by engaging all significant players in the construction industry.

He believes that the real success of Reynaers in Romania is based on team work, sharing the enthusiasm and embracing the same values, thus continuously improving the quality of life. .

This way, Reynaers’ work gave financial results starting from scratch and reaching 7 mil euros in 10 years, and they continue to build every year on their merits.

As a manager, Daniel Popa has proven proficiency in hundreds of projects and presentations. He is a good team player, motivated to fulfill his tasks and improve areas he is responsible for. Daniel is trained in large global organizations and he feels good in the corporate environment. He am positively evaluated in management skills, successfully managing people, budget negotiations and information to meet the company objectives. Daniel likes working in challenging projects and tries to make the work environment a nice place to live, for him and people around him. .

As a consultant in construction solutions, he sees Romania as a place for high opportunities, mostly for flexible, customer centric and innovative companies. Daniel considers Reynaers, the subsidiary that he has built here in Romania to answer all that market requests. In a time of economical and political changes, value for customers is translated in business segment through quality in all aspects of interaction: products, services, personal connections with teams and the relationship built with them. .

Company: Aluterm Group

Role: Sales Manager

Bio:Octavian Fanea graduated from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering from the Politehnica University of Timisoara. He enriched his knowledge as a design engineer at several companies. After that, he shared his ideas and wanted to feel the public’s reaction regarding innovation and he found the best opportunity in the SIATEC division, where he is the sales manager.

His passion and job is to advise the Romanian clients and architects to integrate in their projects, automatic entrances solutions.

As one of his partner said, the entrance and the facade of a building is like a business card. Together with his collegues and partners, he managed to always ensure the elegance, the comfort and the functionality adequate to the entrances, and this thing is reflected in long-term relationships and in their success in business.

He is in a continuos search of innovations in this sector and he likes to keep in step with the technical novelties or with the studies that are conducted in this field. He has the chance to work with the best collegues and, together, they are backed by the most capable producers from this field.

His aim is to share the knowledge and the experience related to automatic doors and to their integration with the Roumanian network of specialists, in order to enhance the efficiency, the confort and the safety of the buildings.

Company: Urba Sofia

Role: Founder&General Director

Bio:

Pietro Elisei, Town and Regional Planner, is currently working in Bucharest as independent researcher in Urban Policies and managing director of Urbasofia (www.urbasofia.eu), a company providing services and consultancy in strategic planning. He is external research collaborator at Dipartimento di Management e Diritto (Università degli Studi di Roma 'Tor Vergata', Roma) on topics related to Urban Regeneration (Urbact Project Re-Block) and is also working as a consultant for the Croatian Ministry of Regional Development (Regeneration of Small Towns affected by war).

He is co-author of the UNECE regional report contributing to the HIII Global Report (Quito, 2016). He edited in 2014 the book: Strategic territorial agendas for small and middle-sized towns and urban systems. Pietro Elisei’ s presentation focused on “Consistent Decision-Making in Urban and Metropolitan Areas based on Participatory and Multi-actor Governance”: “Strategic tools for towns and cities in transition, especially developed and applied at local level, have to provide operative, efficient and effective solutions for counteracting problems related to market labour, social inclusion, cultural activities and heritage, environmental and landscape protection and valorisation, use and design of public space and mobility”.

Pietro worked for different cities all around Europe, since 2007 established in Romania, where he worked for projects related to Integrated Development Plans (PIDUs, 2007-2013) both promoted by cities (e.g. Alba Iulia, Baia Mare, Cluj, Pitesti) and the Ministry for Regional Development. Planum.net Secretary General (2002 -2008), Isocarp.org Vice President (2013-2016). Founder and President of Scita Civita (network promoting smart cities design and solutions in Romania), URBACT Validated Lead Expert (http://urbact.eu/elisei). He routinely holds key-note speeches in international conferences and publishes a number of scientific articles on topics related to urban planning).

Company: FSPAC/UBB Cluj-Napoca

Role: Dean

Bio:

Călin Emilian Hințea is a highly qualified professor, currently teaching Public Management and Strategic Planning in the Public and Non-Profit Sector. Also, he is the Dean of the Political Sciences, Administrations and Communications Faculty from Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. He used to held the Headmasters office of Public Administration between 2004 and 2012, also being Secretary of State, head of strategic unit and a former member of the prime minister's office from 2008 until 2010. Yet, he was Senior Editor of the Transilvanian Magazine of Administrative Sciences, attended a fellowship at the Salzburg Seminary and Fulbright Scholar at MSU.

At the moment he is the Dean of FSPAC/UBB Cluj-Napoca.