Speakers

Alastair Flynn is a Woods Bagot associate principal with extensive experience in large-scale public buildings, managing complex stakeholder groups across multidisciplinary project teams. With a portfolio of projects panning education, workplace, health, and civic architecture, Alastair is currently the project architect on the University of Tasmania redevelopment project, leading the design and adaptive reuse of the heritage-listed Forestry building for the University of Tasmania (UTAS). As the leading university for climate action in the world, UTAS’s future campus is targeting 40 percent less embodied carbon than comparable buildings, retaining more than 60 percent of the existing structure. Through adaptive reuse and a comprehensively circular strategy, the project uses material recovery where possible, eliminating carbon-intensive materials, and introducing only sustainable materials, including locally sourced timber and hempcrete.