Sustainable Building Development

Dr Thomas Tang Corporate Sustainability Director, AECOM Asia September, 2011

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Outline

• Introduction • Why buildings? • Smart buildings • Green buildings • People-oriented Buildings • Conclusions

Sustainable Buildings

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Introduction •

Sustainable development is the achievement of a better quality of life through the efficient use of resources, which realize continued social progress while maintaining stable economic growth and caring for the environment

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“Development that meets the needs of the present without

compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” (Our Common Future: The UN World Commission on Environment & Development, Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, 1987) Sustainable Buildings

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Why buildings? • Buildings are fundamental part of our lives. • Demand for building space is expanding dramatically; in Asia for instance roughly 1.6

billion people will require new housing by 2025. • Densely concentrated populations - buildings with multiple residents and users. • Sustainable buildings will have to be designed for modern challenges like climate

change, indoor comfort and, importantly, human factors. Sustainable Buildings

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AIG Building, Central, Hong Kong

Smart Buildings • “Previously used for basic building management and monitoring, the smart building has become a fusion of fully

integrated services that deliver key business benefits to the owner.” • Key aspects: – Integrating smart technology into buildings during the initial design will reduce the cost of construction. – Safe, secure and comfortable environment – Delivery of information to building users irrespective of their location in the building. – Access control through user authentication services. – Predictive logic – Reduced cost of design and build by 15 to 20 percent compared to disparate traditional systems.

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World Finance Centre, Beijing

Green Buildings

• “…designed, built, renovated, operated, or reused in an

ecological and resourceefficient manner..” • “…to meet certain objectives such as protecting occupant health; improving employee productivity; using energy, water, and other resources more efficiently; and reducing the overall impact to the environment…”

Source: http://www.sustainablespaces.com Sustainable Buildings

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Green Building Technologies

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Green Building Standards • BREEAM launched in 1990 covering water use, waste management and materials as well as energy • LEED launched in 1998 and has been adapted for use in India, Italy and Canada • HK-BEAM launched in 1996 to guide the design and to assess performance of new and existing buildings in Hong Kong. • Japan established CASBEE in 2002 • Australia introduced NABERS in 1998 and later Green Star in 2005. • Green Mark launched in 2005 in Singapore • China Green Building Label system Page 8 initiated in 2006.

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People • Buildings are living parts of

sustainable communities. • Living spaces and gathering points for communities should form part of a building’s function as well as pleasing aesthetics and living comfort.

Beijing World Finance Centre

• Individual’s response can be influenced by personal, social and building factors.

• “Age-friendly” buildings with outdoor spaces, comfortable housing, social participation, respect and social inclusion, employment, communication and information will be the trend. Client logo

Shanghai New Jiang Wan District

Levers for Sustainable Buildings

• Enabling – environmental and social performance of the buildings using smart card, RFID and other technologies.

• Interfacing –with the exterior, e.g. passive design or interface to a smart grid as well as connecting people.

• Decision-making –artificial intelligence to develop predictive logic.

• Holistic units – buildings of the future will become selfcontained in terms of resource needs. Sustainable Buildings

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Conclusions

• Buildings of the future have to take into account the challenges and the opportunities brought about by technological, environmental and societal changes. • With the increasing levels of sophistication in technology, communications and connectivity, smart buildings will become an integral part of our lifestyles. • Supported by smart technologies, green design will be a vital part of the new outlook on a building’s performance. • Societies will be different across the world, but common to all are the needs for comfort, liveability and demographic change. • Integration of technology, green measures and people friendliness will form an enabling, interfacing, decision-making and holistic model for sustainable buildings of the future. Sustainable Buildings

15 November, 2011

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Thank You Dr. Thomas Tang [email protected]

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