Prof ​​Sara Wilkonson

Sara is a chartered building surveyor who first came across green buildings in 1988 as a practitioner. Her work included retrofitting and adaptive reuse of commercial and residential buildings. She started teaching ‘environmental building practice’ in 1992. 

Sara works with property and built environment professionals, horticultural scientists, bio engineers, mental health practitioners, planners, architects, business and accounting professionals on projects seeking real world solutions to deliver sustainable, healthy environments. Her transdisciplinary research program sits at the intersection of sustainability, urban development and transformation, with a focus on green cities and preparing our urban environments for the challenges of climate change. She is Australia’s first female professor of sustainable property.