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Sara Wilkinson is a Chartered Building Surveyor, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and a member of the Australian Property Institute (API). She has worked in UK and Australian universities over 26 years. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the School of Built Environment at UTS, Sydney. Her PhD examined building adaptation, whilst the MPhil explored the conceptual understanding of green buildings. Her research focus is on sustainability, adaptation of the built environment, retrofit of green roofs, and conceptual understanding of sustainability. In 2015 Sara lead a City of Sydney funded project on the Feasibility of Algae Building Technology in NSW and she continues to work on a cross disciplinary project with a prototype panel being tested in 2017. With the Health Faculty, she researches the impacts on health and wellbeing of horticultural therapy on retrofitted green roofs. Sara is part of a cross disciplinary team of researchers from 4 NSW universities investigating Urban Ecology Renewal in NSW for the Environment Trust NSW. Another project explores whether a mandatory approach towards green roof and walls would work for Australia. Sara sits on professional committees for RICS to inform her research and to ensure direct benefit to industry. She sits on the editorial boards of five leading international journals and is the Regional Editor for the International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation in Australasia. Sara has published over 100 publications and books. Her research is published in academic and professional journals, and recently, an RICS Best Practice Guidance Note on Green Roofs and Walls for RICS practitioners. Tim Dixon is Professor of Sustainable Futures in the Built Environment at the University of Reading (School of the Built Environment). With more than 30 years’ experience in education, training and research in the built environment, he leads the Sustainability in the Built Environment network at the University of Reading and is co‐director of the TSBE doctoral training centre (Technologies for a Sustainable Built Environment). He has co-led major UK research council research projects on brownfield land and urban retrofit, and is currently working with local and regional partners to develop a ‘Reading 2050’ smart and sustainable city vision, which also connected with the UK BIS Future Cities Foresight Programme. Recently he has worked on funded research projects on a smart cities and big data; smart and sustainable districts; and social sustainability for housebuilders. Tim is a member of the Climate Change Berkshire Group, and a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smart Cities. He is also a member of the editorial boards of four leading international real‐estate journals; a member of the Advisory Board for Local Economy; a member of the review panel for Commonwealth Scholarship Commission; a mentor for the Villiers Park Educational Trust; and a member of the review panel of the RICS Research Paper Series. He was also a member of the international scientific committee for the national ‘Visions and Pathways 2040 Australia’ project on cities. He has written more than 100 papers and books in the field. Sarah Sayce is Professor in Sustainable Real Estate at the Royal Agricultural University, UK and Emeritus Professor at Kingston University UK, where for many years she was Head of School of Surveying and Planning. She is also a visiting academic to City, London and Reading Universities. She holds an initial degree and PhD from the University of Reading and is a Fellow of the RICS. Sarah is an active, widely published researcher and public speaker across many aspects of the sustainability in the built environment/ sustainable property and higher education and she has extensive research experience and among the organisations for whom she has undertaken research are the UK Government, the RICS and the Green Construction Board. She has published several books, the latest, published in 2015 was Developing Property Sustainably, co-authored with Sara Wilkinson and Pernille Christensen. Sarah sits on the editorial board of several leading international property journals and she is also Joint Executive Officer of the Council of Heads of the Built Environment, which is the representative body for the Built Environment Heads of Department of UK Universities. In addition to her academic work she is also very active in the Professional body, currently being an elected member of their Governing Body and nominated member of the Global and UK Valuation Boards. Additionally she has been a property advisor the Property Working Group of the United Nations Environment Programme's Finance Initiative and she also currently advises the Ethical Property Foundation in relation to their Fairplace Award which is aimed at driving 'triple bottom line' sustainability into workplace property management. Norm Miller is a Professor and the Ernest W. Hahn Chair of Real Estate Finance at the University of San Diego where he has been since the fall of 2007. He has several dozen highly cited papers on sustainability, workplace trends, housing, valuation and forecasting. For much of his academic career he was at the University of Cincinnati as Academic and Real Estate Center Director with one year visits at DePaul University and the University of Hawaii and three years at the University of Georgia where he started his career. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from the Ohio State University. He is active on the Editorial Board of several national/international journals and a past President of the American Real Estate Society. Known for his pioneering work on the economics of green and sustainable real estate, he was the founding Editor of the Journal of Sustainable Real Estate, see www.josre.org. Dr. Miller worked as V.P. of Analytics at CoStar, and is a research principal with Collateral Analytics, see www.collateralanalytics.com. He is also on the advisory boards of Pathfinders, Measurabl, Surefield and Verdani. His book with David Geltner of MIT “ Commercial Real Estate Analysis and Investment” is in its third edition and is the leading graduate real estate textbook in the world. He is currently a Homer Hoyt Land Use Institute Faculty and Board member, where he is involved with some premier thought leaders among academics and industry Professionals in a think tank setting.