Chris Buntine Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne

Atelier Ten is a leading provider of sustainability and environmental design services for buildings and precincts with an established office in Melbourne. We provide vision, strategy and assurance services to government, institutional and private clients and design teams seeking strategic and technical guidance on sustainable and regenerative design outcomes for their projects.

Melbourne

To help built environment practitioners and organisations in Melbourne to drive greater discussion and adoption of regenerative design practices I formed and currently co-lead the Melbourne Regenerative Design Forum which is a collective of like-minded organisations that host monthly regenerative design events. By supporting each others efforts we can accomplish more together that we would individually.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

My wife and I are on a journey to regeneratively renovate a California Bungalow located in Hampton, Victoria. We are seeking a home that is not only wonderful for us to live in, but also brings us and our community closer to nature, and makes nature healthier. Our aspiration is for this home to be energy positive, carbon-neutral, water-resilient, healthy and nature positive. We are targeting certification under the Living Building Challenge (Core + Energy Petal) as well as incorporating many of the design principles of the low energy Passive House standard. We hope that our house project will inspire and challenge others to do the same.

Australia

In 2023 I helped establish Regional Member Community - Australia which became one of the 7 pilot Communities serving members of the International Living Future Institute and the Living Future Institute of Australia. LFC-Australia delivers regular on-line events for over 160 members to raise awareness of regenerative design practices in the built environment and support practitioners through knowledge sharing and learning opportunities.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Delivering sustainability services which build asset value by providing a positive financial and social return on investment. I work closely with clients to support their unique organisational and project needs through suite of integrated sustainability services including strategy development, regenerative design, performance simulation, third party certification, adaptation and resilience planning, lifecycle assessment and lifecycle costing. I'm also chair of Northrop's Climate Action Taskforce and responsible for implementing a range of internal initiatives to support carbon neutral and climate resilient outcomes for projects.

Melbourne, Australia

Participated in the steering committee responsible for mobilising Engineers Declare and Engineers Act, a movement that brings together engineers and engineering organisations to take action on the climate and biodiversity emergencies. Worked to raise the visibility of the movement through events and social media.

Melbourne, Australia

Built a dynamic and highly skilled sustainability team with sought after expertise in healthy, low carbon building design, third party verification and sustainability strategy development. Led the development of proposals and secured work with leading clients. Delivered sustainability services on complex high profile projects for government, commercial and institutional clients.

Melbourne, Australia

Co-facilitator the Melbourne collaborative under the auspices of the Living Future Institute of Australia and the International Living Future Institute. Responsible for delivering events for built environment practitioners to encourage deeper conversations on how development can contribute to a future which is socially just, culturally rich and ecologically restorative.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Sustainability Engineer responsible for the sustainable design and ratings for new construction projects in the residential, commercial, educational and institutional markets. Was part of the design team for the West Berkeley Public Library, the first verified zero net energy (ZNE) public library in California.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Secured project funding and managed the delivery of energy efficiency technology demonstration projects across Southern California. Launched energy efficiency home demonstrations with new home builders, piloted automated energy benchmarking using Energy Star Portfolio Manager and provided staff training on the use of new energy modelling tools.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Technical support for Savings by Design, an innovative energy efficiency program which provides financial incentives to building owners and design teams for high performance building designs. Engaged with architectural and engineering design to secure annual energy savings in excess of 6 million kilowatt hours.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Project management of zero emission vehicle technologies and innovative mobility demonstration projects to support the transformation of the automotive industry in California. Industry advocate for vehicle electrification and last mile mobility services.

Regenerative Practitioner

Master Of Building Science

Mba, Business

Ma, Urban Planning

B. Eng., Civil Engineering