For the past 10 years, Cate has been actively involved in the design, planning and management of sustainability strategies across both the public and private sectors. 

As the Head of Sustainability for Lend Lease Asia Pacific, Cate is responsible for managing the implementation of sustainability across the Lend Lease APAC businesses, including Investment Management, Retail and Communities, Lend Lease Development, Delfin Lend Lease, Vivas Lend Lease and the Retirement By Design and Lend Lease Primelife businesses, empowering and engaging her team of Sustainability Managers and the businesses in demonstrating the value proposition of sustainable property development, management and investment, which in the current economic environment, has never been more critical or made more business sense.

Cate’s role builds upon her previous 12 months as the Sustainability Manager for the Investment Management business of Lend Lease, in which Cate was responsible for driving the strategic implementation of sustainability across new and existing wholesale funds globally (Aus, Asia, UK and US), contributing to the achievement of the Lend Lease vision to become a sustainable organisation.

Previously, as Associate Director ESD at Hyder Consulting, Cate was responsible for building the Melbourne Sustainable Design Group and the coordination of multi-disciplined teams across Hyder’s Australian Offices, providing sustainability consultancy services for built environment projects around Australia. Her work prior to that with Victorian local and State Government resulted in the development and implementation of several key initiatives, including the Doncaster Hill Sustainability Guidelines and the Moreland STEPS and Sustainable Design Scorecard.

Cate is an active participant of the new Green Building Council of Australia’s Asia Pacific Committee, the Property Council of Australia’s National Sustainability Roundtable and the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative Property Working Group, developing resources to facilitate sustainable responsible investment globally.

Cate was also announced as a winner of the 2009 Australian Financial Review - BOSS Magazine Young Executive of the Year Award.

Event Synopsis

From Green Buildings to Green Precincts
There is a strong trend within the property sector to move beyond delivering individual green buildings to developing Sustainable Precincts. Using some of Lend Lease's major development projects, Cate will discuss this industry movement and explore the innovations in both design techniques and technologies, as well as the importance of partnerships, stakeholder engagement and community development in moving from green buildings to green precincts.