Dr. R Wood
Dr Ronald Wood is director of Innovative Plant
Technology Pty Ltd and has more than 30 years
experience with all aspects of interior/exterior
landscapes, in Australia, North America, Europe
and Japan. He is an environmental scientist,
acknowledged for pioneering research in the role
of plants in the indoor environment for the
reduction of air-borne volatile organic
contaminants. He has advised on a number of
major office buildings including the
refurbishment of Grosvenor Place.
Adj. Prof. M Burchett
Margaret Burchett has about 40 years experience
as a plant scientist, with special research
expertise in the use of plants, both outdoors
and indoors, as indicators and remediators of
pollution, in air, soil or water. Margaret is
now an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of
Science at UTS. For the last 15 years she has
led the Plants and Indoor Environmental Quality
group, researching the benefits of indoor plants
to building occupants. She sees
collaboration with the industry as a vital part
of keeping the research not only scientifically
interesting but also of relevance to the
industry and to community health. She is also a
member of the UTS interfaculty Centre for
Environmental Sustainability, for which she was
Chairperson in 2009.
Adj. Prof. Mark Thomson
Mark Thomson, an Ecological Architect and
Adjunct Professor of the QUT School of Design,
who has recently been reappointed as President
of the Australian Green Development Forum and is
the Corporate Sustainability Principal for
Schiavello.
