Alison Scotland: Alison serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Australian Sustainable Built Environment Council (ASBEC), a coalition of leading organisations dedicated to advancing the vision of more sustainable, productive, and resilient buildings, communities, and cities. She drives a collaboration agenda with industry, government and not-for-profit leaders to develop national policy and technical solutions that enhance the built environment. Under her leadership, ASBEC continues to champion the cause of sustainability and resilience across Australia’s built landscape.

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Prof. Benoit Fournier: Prof. Fournier is professor at the Department of Geology and Engineering Geology of Laval University in Québec City (Québec, Canada), from where he got his PhD in 1993. From 1990 to 2007, he worked as a research scientist (1990-1998) and manager (1998-2007) for the Advanced Concrete Technology Program of CANMET, Department of Natural Resources (Ottawa, Canada). Dr. Fournier is a past Chair of CSA A3000 technical committee on cementitious materials. He is currently the Chair of CSA technical subcommittee on Aggregate’s Reaction in concrete and is also a Work Package Leader for RILEM technical committee TC 258-AAA (Avoiding alkali aggregate reactions in concrete – Performance based concept). Dr. Fournier is currently the Director of the Quebec’s Research Centre on Concrete Infrastructures (CRIB).

Clare Tubolets: Clare is CEO of SmartCrete Cooperative Research Centre, an organisation designed to support the Concrete sector to undertake research and development to facilitate transition to a sustainable future. Clare has extensive CRC expertise, having been involved in CRCs as Industry and Research participant, CRC manager and Government program manager. She is an agile practitioner, passionate about unlocking collaborative potential by bringing together world leading research and industry specialists to solve real-world problems​

Eunice Heath is the Chief Sustainability Officer of CRH a leading supplier of building materials solutions that build, connect and improve our world. CRH is headquartered in Dublin, Ireland with US headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. She serves as a board member of the United Nations Global Compact USA Network.

Eunice joined CRH January 2023 after a 31 year career at the Dow Chemical Company. In Dow, Eunice held various positions over her career from global business leadership, government affairs, M&A Integration leader, Environment, Health & Safety and corporate sustainability. She also serves as Vice Chair of the board for the World Environment Center (WEC) and Vice Chair of the board for Project Lead The Way (PLTW) a STEM education organization.

Eunice is a certified Six Sigma Green Belt, 2011 Women of Distinction winner by the Philadelphia Business Journal, 2013 Champion of Champions award by NSBE, 2017 Honoree of Forty Women to Watch Over Forty by Forbes Media, 2020 Honoree of 25 Women Shaking Up the Climate Movement by GreenBiz and recognized 2020, 2021 and 2022 HERoes Inclusion Women Role Models by Yahoo Finance.

Eunice earned her MBA at the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Florida.

Julie has recently retired from a part-time role as the Interim Director of the Forestry Centre of Excellence in Jan 2025 and previously retired from her continuing role as Professor of Engineering Education in UniSA STEM in April 2024. Prior to this Julie was Executive Dean of UniSA STEM from April 2020 to April 2023, Pro Vice Chancellor of the Division of Information Technology, Engineering and The Environment (April 2019 to March 2020) and Head of the School of Natural and Built Environments (January 2015 – April 2019). Before that she held a range of leadership positions including Associate Head of School and Discipline Leader of Civil Engineering (2011-2015), Program Director of Civil Engineering (2000-2012) and Head of School of Geoscience, Minerals and Civil Engineering (2002-2004).

Before joining UniSA Julie worked as a structural engineer and project manager in industry for 14 years. The projects she worked on ranged from power stations, office buildings, industrial buildings and shopping centres to residential buildings. During this time she had to break new ground wherever she worked with regard to maternity leave, part-time work, job sharing and so on since female engineers were very rare at the time (things are improving though!). These experiences resulted in Julie’s extensive involvement in activism and research related to Women in Engineering. She was a co-founder of the South Australian Women in Engineering group (now part of Engineers Australia) and a long-time member of the National Women in Engineering committee of Engineers Australia, including a period as Chair from 2004-2006.

Julie’s research interests are diverse and span the areas of Engineering Education, Women in Engineering and Structural Engineering. She has published 2 books, numerous journal articles, supervised PhD students and received Cat 1 grants (ARC and OLT) and industry funding across all of these areas. She was also the co-chair of the previous Concrete Institute of Australia conference, Concrete 2017, held in Adelaide in 2017.​

Katherine Featherstone Senior Manager – Products and Materials, GBCA.

Katherine has worked in the construction industry for over 20 years. With a background in industrial and retail design, she experienced first hand the incredible waste caused by fitout and construction practices, and was spurned towards looking for waste reduction and less harmful materials. As Senior Manager for Products and Materials at the Green Building Council of Australia, she is part of the effort to transform the way products and materials are procured and specified. She counts herself as very lucky to work with a lot of stakeholders including architects, manufacturers and materials experts and is inspired by the incredible change already happening throughout the supply chain, relishing the exposure she gets to new technologies and methodologies. Katherine is currently finalising the GBCA’s Practical Guide to Upfront Carbon as well as developing the Responsible Products Framework. She currently sits on the PCA’s Circular Economy Working Group, and that of the City of Sydney’s Better Buildings partnership as well as the WorldGBC’s Circular Accelerator Steering Group.

Dr Paul Tennis: Dr Tennis is Senior Director, Research & Product Standards, Portland Cement Association, USA. With more than 25 years as a cement and concrete materials professional, his interests include cement and concrete standards, concrete durability improvement, and cement chemical phenomena. Paul has also been a large part of the work being conducted by the PCA roadmap to carbon neutrality, and work conducted on the introduction and specification of Portland limestone cements in the USA.

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