News: New Zeal­ander new CEO of World Green Build­ing Council

Global Appoint­ment for New Zea­l­and Green Build­ing Council's Jane Henley.

Jane Hen­ley, newly appoin­ted head of the World Green Build­ing Council.

The New Zea­l­and Green Build­ing Coun­cil (NZGBC) today repor­ted that its CEO, Jane Hen­ley, has been appoin­ted chief exec­ut­ive of the World Green Build­ing Coun­cil.

Hen­ley will leave the NZGBC to take up the new appointment.

In a state­ment released today, NZGBC Chair­man Rob Lang said Hen­ley had made an out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion to the rapid adop­tion of green build­ing prac­tices in New Zealand.

“In short time New Zea­l­and has gone from hav­ing no frame­work for green build­ing design and con­struc­tion to an estab­lished and widely sup­por­ted sys­tem for increas­ing the sus­tain­ab­il­ity of new and exist­ing build­ings,” Mr Lang said. “A large part of this can be attrib­uted to the com­mit­ment and drive Jane brought to the role of CEO and she no doubt will make an even more impress­ive impact on the world stage. We wish her well.”

Mr Lang said Jane Hen­ley leaves the NZGBC in good heart, with more than 400 mem­ber com­pan­ies, five Green Star NZ rat­ing tools and 33 cer­ti­fied projects.

A key focus for the Coun­cil over the com­ing 12 months will be encour­aging ret­ro­fit­ting of exist­ing build­ings for higher levels of envir­on­mental per­form­ance, and intro­du­cing a res­id­en­tial rat­ing tool, he said.

“By start­ing with new build­ing design and build we have effect­ively been tar­get­ing lower hanging fruit. We now have the chal­lenge, and the extraordin­ary oppor­tun­ity, to help lift the envir­on­mental per­form­ance of build­ings right across the board.”

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