or BEAM Affiliate as they serve to empower the sustainable building industry. To provide recognition to building-related projects and organisations with outstanding performance and contributions in sustainability and the built environment, HKGBC organises the Green Building Award with Professional Green Building Council (PGBC) to honor project teams and organisations with exemplary leadership in respective areas.
Another critical factor for green development is building materials. To encourage the use of green materials for buildings, the launch of CIC Green Product Certification is formed through the merge of HKGBC’s HK G-PASS and CIC’s Carbon Labelling Scheme (CLS). HK G-Pass covered 25 product categories and focused on aspects such as human toxicity, resources consumption and ecosystem impacts. CLS covered 3 product categories and dealt with a single impact which is climate change. As a result of the merge, CIC Green Product Certification now covers 28 product categories and slightly over 110 certified products.
HKGBC launched several guidebooks in order to educate the industry on green buildings. In 2018, the Green Design Guide for Material Resources Optimisation in Building Life Cycle was launched to provide practice guidance to the industry. It alerts the public and building professionals about the building material waste problem and provide adequate guidelines during planning and design stages in minimising building material waste for the Hong Kong building industry.
To improve the energy efficiency of existing buildings, HKGBC has partnered with the government to launch the ACT-Shop Programme in 2016. The programme aligns with Government’s initiatives and also adopts the 4Ts approach to assist building owners to enhance the energy performance of the existing buildings. The main aim of the programme is to encourage existing building practitioners to implement a knowledge- based energy management and retro-commissioning practices in their buildings, in order to improve the building energy performance. Through this programme, building owners could identify the improvement potentials on energy saving and make decision based on the data analysed.
By November 2018, The ACT-Shop programme has already launched the fourth batch of pilot projects and successfully conducted retro-commissioning for 24 privately-owned buildings. The project helps those buildings save 1.3 million kWh of power.
COOPERATION WITH GOVERNMENT The connection between the Council and the government is also important for providing a greener built environment to the industry. Since 1 April 2011, certification by BEAM Plus is one of the prerequisites for the granting of gross floor area (GFA) concessions for certain green and amenity features in
BEAM Plus New Building version 2.0 which places more emphasis on wellness of building users was launched this year.
Mr CHEUNG Hau-wai, SBS, Chairman of HKGBC, is delighted to see the growth of Green Building Award in terms of number of high-quality entries and impact over the years.
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