Stefan Preuss, Manager Sustainable Design, Spowers Architects

Stefan is an Associate and Manager Sustainable Design with Spowers Architects in Melbourne. He holds Masters Degrees in both Architectural Design (Kassel, Germany) and Environmental Design of Buildings (Cardiff, UK).

Stefan is a Green Star Faculty Member and Assessor and a frequent guest lecturer at Melbourne University.

Beyond his architectural design and project management work Stefan has led Spowers to the certification of ISO 14001: 2004, the leading international quality assurance system for environmental management and overarches the sustainability all of Spowers’ national and international projects.

Since coming to Australia in 2005 to join Spowers Architects, Stefan has been involved in a number of leading sustainable design and construction projects including ‘Towards Zero’ a methodology towards zero net emissions buildings in the Australian Context which he presented at the World Sustainable Building Conference 2008.

Prior to coming to Australia Stefan worked in Switzerland, Germany and Greece, where he has also been a project coordinator of several European Union Research, Application and Demonstration projects (for Tombazis Architects, Athens, Greece).