Bio:
Richard Reed is Professor of Property and Real Estate at Deakin University (Melbourne) where he developed and introduced a new Property
and Real Estate course with a major in sustainability. He has conducted research into different areas of sustainability including the business case for sustainability and adaptive re-use of existing buildings. He is the visiting Environmental Professor at the IRE/BS University in Regensburg, Germany. He authored the ‘Business Case for Sustainability’ chapter for Your Building (www.yourbuilding.org)
and is a member of international sustainability committees. His PhD was from the University of Queensland and he supervises PhD students researching various aspects of sustainability including ‘design versus tenant satisfaction’ and ‘pre-fabricated highrise
residential buildings’. He is a Fellow of the Australian Property Institute (API) and edited ‘The Valuation of Real Estate’
(2007) text for the API, as well as being consulting editor for ‘The Australian and New Zealand Property Journal’. He co-authored ‘A Greener House’(an investor’s guide to sustainability) and ’Property Development’(including a new chapter on sustainability). In addition he is editor of ‘The International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis’ published in the UK and has presented at many Australian and international conferences.
Interests:
e-mail: r.reed@deakin.edu.au
