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Roger jointly leads the development of Canada Water, a 53-acre development project in Central London. He joined British Land and was appointed to the Executive Committee in 2016. Prior to joining British Land, Roger spent 29 years at Argent where, as Development Director/CEO, he secured and led major projects in Manchester, Birmingham, the Thames Valley, the City of London and the 58-acre King’s Cross Development. He was awarded CBE for Services to Sustainable Development in 2006. Roger will reflect on his experience leading significant international urban transformation projects and draw lessons for New Zealand as we embark on our own urban regeneration journey.

Following Roger’s presentation, Liz Halsted, Regeneration and Decarbonisation Leader at Arup, will facilitate a panel discussion exploring the challenges of infrastructure investment, taking risk, partnering and how we achieve our own urban transformation using infrastructure as a catalyst in Aotearoa.

Join us to continue this conversation from Building Nations 2023 and explore the lessons we can learn from successful overseas urban regeneration.

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Presenter Details

Roger Madelin - Joint Head of British Land's 53 acre development at Canada Water

Roger jointly leads the development of Canada Water, a 53 acre development project in Central London. He joined British Land and was appointed to the Executive Committee in 2016. Prior to joining British Land, Roger spent 29 years at Argent, where as Development Director/CEO he secured and led major projects in Manchester, Birmingham, the Thames Valley, the City of London and the 58-acre King’s Cross Development. He was awarded CBE for Services to Sustainable Development in 2006.

Malcolm Smith - Australasian Cities Leader for Arup

Malcolm Smith is the Australasian Cities Leader for Arup, based in the Melbourne office. Before taking up this role, he was in the London office for over 25 years, and was the founding director of the Integrated Urbanism Unit at Arup in London in 2002, specializing in complex Masterplanning projects with sustainable outcomes.  As the Arup Fellow in Masterplanning and Urban Design, Malcolm guides the design strategy for Arup’s Masterplanning projects across the world. Besides the physical issues of places, his work encompasses issues such as integrated systems, resource efficiency, cultural strategy, meaningful infrastructures, risk and resilience and social value. He has extensive experience in a range of sectors including projects such as Latrobe university Masterplan, Melbourne, Cyprus University Masterplan; Australian National University Masterplan, Canberra; Central To Eveleigh masterplan, Sydney; New Capital City for Indonesia: Preston Beach new town, Western Australia; Battersea Power Station Masterplan, London; Human Genome Campus masterplan, Cambridgeshire; UK; Hazelwood powerstation site regeneration strategy, Victoria, Aus;  and the Larnaca Waterfront, Cyprus. He is currently the urban regeneration Lead for the new 24km light metro system in Auckland, New Zealand. 

Besides his project work, Malcolm has been a member of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) review committees. He is invited to lecture around the world on sustainable environments, including the City of Melbourne, Sydney, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and Singapore. He has been an invited advisor to the Gore Foundation and UN Habitat on sustainable urbanism. He was appointed by the City of Amsterdam as lead designer for Zuidas, the new commercial centre for Amsterdam, from 2009-2014. In 1998 he led the masterplan for Stratford City, the metropolitan centre at the heart of the London Olympic park, and has since been working on its implementation with a variety of clients. He undertakes research into evolving issues in urbanism, and recently published the research Tomorrows Living Stations that was developed in collaboration with the UK rail operator, Network Rail. 

He joined Arup after completing his Masters degree in Architecture at Yale University, USA, following his undergraduate degree at the University of Queensland and early work in Brisbane, Australia