Congress Schedule
Compact and efficient – Two days of lectures, workshops and presentations
Monday 20 April 2015 – Lectures and Excursion
Morning – Excursion Zorlu Center
The Zorlu Center, a dynamic and impressive gateway, redefines the experience of contemporary life in the urban core. The mixed-use project with wide public spaces and grand-scale buildings, elements of urban and architectural quality that create a modern city in the 21st century, is a landmark at the European crossing point. With green spaces extending 72.000 m², the center provides a home for 200 plant species including 68 different types of trees.
Please notice: Places for the excursion are limited and the order of the receipt of registrations is taken into consideration by the event organiser.
| 10:00 – 12:00 | Excursion Zorlu Center | Walking tour – tour guide Zerrin Bucaklı |
Afternoon – Lectures "Explore the Nature on Rooftops"
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Registration, Refreshment, Exhibition |
Moderator: Fatih Türkmenoğlu, Program Presenter, Journalist, Producer, Author
| 13:30 – 15:30 | Welcoming Speech | Dr. Kadir Topbaş; Mayor of Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Turkey |
| Roland Appl; President, IGRA, Germany | ||
| Jean-Noël Fourel; Onduline Group CEO, France | ||
| Green Roofs from an Investors Perspective | Mesut Pektaş; Chief Executive Officer of Zorlu Property Group, Turkey | |
| "Safdie Architects: Recent Works" | Jaron Lubin; Principal, Safdie Architects, USA | |
| Ecological Architecture and Masterplanning | Dr. Ken Yeang; Principal, T.R. Hamzah & Yeang Sdn.Bhd., Malaysia | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Refreshments/Exhibition | |
| 16:00 – 18:00 | A New Neighborhood in the City | Emre Arolat; Founding Partner of Emre Arolat Architects (EAA), Turkey |
| Ten Steps to Designing and Building Reliable Green Roofs | Roland Appl; President, IGRA, Germany | |
| "Shaping Liveable Cities – The Art to Integrate Blue-Green and Social Factors" | Prof. Herbert Dreiseitl; Director, Ramboll Liveable Cities Lab, Germany/Denmark | |
| IGRA Green Roof Awards 2015 | ||
| 19:30 – 22:30 | Evening Reception | Bosphorus Cruise Boat Trip – Cocktail Prolonged |
Tuesday 21 April 2015 – Workshops and Lectures
| 08:30 – ca. 09:00 | Refreshment, Exhibition |
Morning – Workshops
The practice-oriented workshops will see certified Green Roof experts, designers, landscape architects, landscape contractors, plant experts and delegates of municipal authorities sharing their knowledge and answering questions and queries. The workshops 1 and 2 are in parallel sessions.
General Moderator: Fatih Türkmenoğlu, Program Presenter, Journalist, Producer, Author
Workshop 1: “Planning, Installation and Maintenance of Green Roofs”
This workshop will cover the physical and technical aspects of planning, installing and maintaining Green Roofs. An overview will be followed by the address of specific Green Roof aspects such as irrigation, plant selection and others.
Moderator: Burhan Karahan, CEO, Onduline Avrasya A.S.
| 09:00 – 11:00 | Green Roofs and roof technology- A proposal for a "check list" | Melih Kamil; R&D Consultant, Onduline Group-OFITECH, Turkey |
| Green Roof Systems | Ralf Walker; Horticultural Engineer, Division Manager Research and Development ZinCo GmbH, Germany | |
| Green Roof Design at the Architecture and Landscape Intersect | Dr. Deniz Aslan; Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Turkey | |
| Panel Discussion | ||
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Refreshments/Exhibition | |
Moderator: Murat Ermeydan, President of Istanbul Branch of Turkish Chamber of Landscape Architects
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Plant selection for Extensive and Intensive Green Roofs | Barış Işık; Landscape Architect: Turkey |
| Green Walls in Dry Climates – Practical Experiences | Jamil Corbani; Green Studios, Libanon, USA | |
| Installation and Maintenance of Green Roofs in Turkey | Nesrin Karaoglu Otuzoglu; General Manager of Karaoglu Peyzaj, Turkey | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch/Exhibition | |
Workshop 2: "Green Roof Policies and Research"*
How can urban densification be combined with the improvement of the Green City Infrastructure? This workshop will demonstrate the possibilities of Green Roofs as an urban planning tool based on national and international case studies. In addition, new scientific findings will be presented.
* In cooperation with the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Moderator: Fatih Türkmenoğlu, Program Presenter, Journalist, Producer, Author
| 09:00 – 11:00 | Green Strategy for Istanbul | Mehmet İhsan Şimşek; Department of Parks Gardens and Green Fields, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality, Turkey |
| Green Roofs and Climate Adaptation | Dr. Heleen Mees; Researcher, University of Utrecht, Netherlands | |
| The International Green Roof City Network | Wolfgang Ansel; Director; International Green Roof Association (IGRA), Germany | |
| 3 Million Euros for Green Roofs – The Green Roof Strategy of Hamburg | Dr. Hanna Bornholdt; Ministry of Urban Development and Environment Hamburg (BSU), Germany | |
| The Green Roof and Green Wall Strategy of Paris | Caroline Haas; Mairie de Paris, Direction des espaces verts et de l'environnement (DEVE), France | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Refreshments/Exhibition | |
Moderator: Dr. Çağatay Seçkin, Istanbul Technical University, Architecture Faculty Deputy Dean
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Green Roof Experiments in Turkey and the USA | Dr. Mert Ekşi; Researcher, Istanbul University Faculty of Forestry Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Turkey |
| Stormwater Management with Green Roofs | Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Dickhaut; Researcher, HafenCity University Hamburg, Germany | |
| Energy aspects of Green Roof systems | Dr. Serdar Celik; Researcher, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering, USA | |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch/Exhibition | |
Afternoon – Lectures "Green Roofs in Dry and Mediterranean Climates"
Moderator: Fatih Türkmenoğlu, Program Presenter, Journalist, Producer, Author
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Environmental Aspects of Green Roofs in Turkey | Ayşegül Oruçkaptan; President of Turkish Chamber of Landscape Architects, Turkey |
| The UWC College Dilijan, Armenia | Tim Flynn; Founder Tim Flynn Architects, UK Udo Dagenbach; CEO of Glasser and Dagenbach Landscape Architects, Germany |
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| Benefits of Green Roofs for Certified Green Buildings | Berkay Somalı; Managing Partner, Altensis, Turkey | |
| A LEED Gold Certified Building with a Mediterranean Green Roof in Greece | Maria Kokkinou; Kokkinou + Kourkoulas Architects & Associates; Greece Helli Pangalou; elandscape-H. Pangalou & Associates, Greece |
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | Refreshments/Exhibition | |
| 16:00 – 17:30 | Bosco Verticale – Biodiversity Injection | Laura Gatti; Studio Laura Gatti, Italy |
| Mi'costa Residences – High Class Villas and Apartments with Green Roofs, Turkey | Durmuş Dilekci; Principal of DİLEKCİ Architects (DDA), Turkey | |
| Troy Archaeological Museum, Canakkale, Turkey | Ömer Selçuk Baz; Founder of Yalin Architects, Turkey | |
| What´s Next: Remote Sensing – Green Roof Inventory and Potential Analysis | Julian Zeidler; German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany | |
| Closing Session | ||
Progamme changes reserved.