Advanced Executive Diploma in

ESG Strategy and Innovation for

Net-Zero

Sustainable
Building Design
Group 4
Presentation
Presented by:
Tam Chi Wai, John
Tang Man Sing, Bernard
Chi Pon Chor, Cedric
Cheung Yuk, Eliza
Cheng Man Chun, Fredrick
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Green Building Standard / Certification Scheme
Common Features
- Credit/Point Base Rating System
- Integrated Design
- Energy Performance, Environmental Management
- Materials, Resource Control
- Indoor Environmental Quality
- Innovation / Smart

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 From 2011 – 2023 NB Projects
- Platinum: 129
BEAM Plus – Building Environmental Assessment - Gold: 310
Method - Silver: 81
- Bronze: 73

BD APP-151 (10% GFA

Concessions)

Source: https://www.hkgbc.org.hk/eng/beam-plus/introduction/index.jsp

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BEAM Plus – NB V2.0 Highlight
IDCM (25+14B) SS (10+19B)
- Construction - Landscape design
Management - Low Carbon Transport
- Integrated Design - Sustainable Urbanism Design
process - Biodiversity / Ecological
- LCA - Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Commissioning - Design - Climate Change
- Digital FM Interface adaption
- BIM Integration

EU (31+13B) HWB (19+10B)

- Energy Performance - Health and Active Living
- Low Carbon Passive Design- Family Friendly Facilities
- Renewable Energy
- LCA WU (12+3B)
- Commissioning - Water Saving Devices
- Cooling Tower Water

MW (14+21B) IA (10B)
- Regional Materials - Innovations that have not been
- Certified Green Products addressed before

Source: Hong Kong Smart and Green Building Design Best Practice Guidebook

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LEED - Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design V4.1 (USGBC)
- Low Emitting
- Integrative Project Materials
Planning and Design - Thermal Comfort
- Acoustic
- LEED AP
- Reduced Parking - Regional Priority
Footprint, Electric - Innovation
Vehicles

- Renewable Energy
- Pollution prevention,
- Enhanced
Heat Island Reduction
Commissioning

- Water Use Reduction

- Building Product
Disclosure and Optimization
Material Ingredients

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Green Building Certification – Trend & Features
- Green / Net Zero + Wellness + Smart
- Multiple Certifications (BEAM Plus + LEED + WELL + CGBS) in Hong Kong
- Change in GFA Concessions % according to BEAM Plus Rating
- Energy Saving Enhancement via carbon management, BMS/IoT, AI, building design (integrated façade)
- High-rise Greenery
- Wellness experience
- Change Mindset & behavior

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Built-in Climate
Resilience -
From Grey to Climate resilience is the ability to anticipate, prepare
Green Infrastructure for, and respond to hazardous events, trends, or
disturbances related to climate.

Improving climate resilience involves assessing how

Climate resilience climate change will create new, or alter current,
climate-related risks, and taking steps to better cope
with these risks.

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Built-in Climate
Resilience -
From Grey to
Green Infrastructure
various solutions to climate
resilience at the federal,
state, and city levels in the
United States.
The federal government provides funding and technical
assistance to support state and local resilience-related
projects, but these resources need to be scaled up to meet the
needs of communities preparing and recovering from climate-
related extreme weather events.
State governments convene local and private interests related
to climate change and can adopt resilience practices in state-
owned assets and operations.
Cities are developing standalone resilience plans and
incorporating resilience strategies into master plans and
hazard mitigation plans. Innovative finance mechanisms such
as green bonds and climate funds are being used to obtain
capital to invest in resilience projects.
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Built-in Climate
Resilience -
Green infrastructure refers to natural systems
From Grey to
including forests, floodplains, wetlands and soils
Green Infrastructure that provide additional benefits for human well-
being, such as flood protection and climate
regulation.
“Green-gray” infrastructure
mixes the conservation and
Gray infrastructure refers to structures such as
restoration of nature with
dams, seawalls, roads, pipes or water treatment
conventional approaches.
plants.

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Built-in Climate
Resilience -
can help to reduce the risk of flooding and erosion,
From Grey to
which are becoming increasingly severe due to
Green Infrastructure climate change.

For example, green roofs can absorb rainfall and

the key benefits of green
reduce the amount of runoff that enters stormwater
infrastructure
systems, thereby reducing the risk of flooding and
improving water quality.

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Built-in Climate
Resilience -
can help to mitigate the urban heat island effect,
From Grey to
which is a phenomenon where urban areas
Green Infrastructure experience higher temperatures than surrounding
rural areas due to the absorption and retention of
heat by built surfaces. Trees and green spaces can
benefit of green infrastructure
provide shade, absorb heat, and release moisture
into the air through evapotranspiration, thereby
reducing temperatures and improving air quality.

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Built-in Climate
Resilience -
can also provide social and economic benefits to
From Grey to
communities. For example, green spaces can
Green Infrastructure provide opportunities for recreation, improve mental
health and well-being, and increase property values.

to providing environmental
Green infrastructure can also create jobs and
benefits, green infrastructure
support local economies, particularly in the areas of
construction, maintenance, and tourism.

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source of information

Center for Climate and Energy Solutions. (n.d.). Climate resilience: Overview.
Retrieved from https://www.c2es.org/content/climate-resilience-overview/

Conservation International. (n.d.). Green-gray infrastructure. Retrieved from

https://www.conservation.org/projects/green-gray-infrastructure/

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EXISTING PROBLEMS

Schwartz, Y. Raslan, R., & Mumovic, D. 2018.The Life Cycle Carbon Footprint of Refurbished and New Buildings—A Systematic Review of Case Studies
“Above 1.5° C we risk reaching climatic tipping points … we could lose control of our
climate for good.” (Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, 2021)
>1%

Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy. 2021. Net Net Zero Strategy: Build Back Greener
The Economist. 2022. “The construction industry remains horribly climate-unfriendly”. The Economist.
Spiller, P. 2021. “Making supply-chain decarbonization happen”. McKinsey & Company.
Demolition
24%
Embodied
Carbon Refurbishment
Life or Rebuild?
Cycle
75%
Operational (Schwartz et al., 2018)

40% 10% 70% 70%

global carbon emissions annual emissions total emissions from gap to zero-
from building from embodied Scope 3 carbon target
(The Economist, (The carbon
Economist, (McKinsey, 2021) (McKinsey, 2021)
2022) 2022)
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Digital and Sustainable Transformation
in the Whole Lifecycle of a Green Building

ISO 19650-4 (COBie)

Cyber security

Source: BSI

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 Utilisation of Digital Date – Data Analytics
Innovative Digital Management Tools as Data Analytics Platform for Digital Sustainability &
Digital Assurance
Analytics for Optimisation in D&C
A.I. on past carbon metrics of design
and construction arrangement and
Carbon Market for carbon optimisation
in simulation
Analytics for Digital Trust
Rule-based system according to
verification plans for initial auto-
verification
Document analysis and textual and feature
search in data sampling for auto-
verification check and auto-reporting Analytics for Optimisation in Operation
Document analysis for risk alert Predictive analysis on carbon consumption (system
Entering the Circular Economy through real-time performances and human habits) for decision
performance data and quantification via digital making
platform Predictive maintenance
Integrates with Building automation systems (BAS)
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D i g i t a l A s s e t M a n a g e m e n t P l a t f o r m w i t h B u i l t - i n I o Ts

Carbon Emission-Related
Performance

PAS 2080:2016 © 2018 The British Standards Institution.

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Reconstituted bamboo is

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 Smart
green
buildings
in Hong
Kong
By: Frederick Cheng
Smart Green Building is a Global Trend

 According to the World Bank, 56% of the world’s population, or 4.4 billion inhabitants,
live in cities, and the share is expected to rise to 80% by 20502.

 As the trend of urbanization continues, the demand for buildings will continue to rise.
Modern buildings should not only serve functional and social needs but should also
minimize pollution or eliminate negative impacts on the environment.

 Technologies such as smart building systems and AI-powered sensors can help
buildings become environmental friendly by design and energy efficient throughout
the lifecycle.

 A smart green building integrates innovation and technology (I&T) throughout its
lifecycle to maximize resource and operational efficiencies, enhance well-being,
promote sustainability and be resilient to change1.

1. Hong Kong Green Building Council, Hong Kong Smart Green Building Design Best Practice Guidebook, 2021

2. The World Bank, Urban Development, October 2022

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Reference: Hong Kong Green Building
Council, Hong Kong Smart Green Building
Design Best Practice Guidebook, 2021
 90% of Hong
Kong’s electricity
consumption is from
building

Reference: Hong Kong Government, 38

Climate Change, July 2022
618 Shanghai Street

Developer: Urban Renewal Authority

(URA)
Location: Mong Kok
Completion Date: 2019
Gross Floor Area: 5,223 m²
Description:
A revitalisation project covering 14
street numbers, comprising 10 pre-war
shophouses built in the 1920s and
which have been assessed as Grade II
historic buildings, as well as four post-
war buildings

Reference: InvestHK
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Transport Department Vehicle
Examination Complex

Developer: Architectural Services

Department
Location: Tsing Yi
Completion Date: 2021
Gross Floor Area: around 75,000 m²
Description:
A comprehensive multi-storey complex for
examining various types of
vehicles ranging from public transport
vehicles (e.g. taxi, light bus, bus) to
all types of goods vehicles (including
light, medium, heavy goods vehicles,
and trailers) and special purpose vehicles

Reference: InvestHK
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InnoCell

Developer: Hong Kong Science

and Technology Parks Corporation
Location: Tai Po
Completion Date: 2021
Gross Floor Area: 15,300 m²
Description:
A smart living and co-creation
space designed for I&T talents to
spark
collaboration within Science Park

Reference: InvestHK
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The Henderson

Developer: Henderson Land

Development Company Limited
Location: Central
Completion Date: 2023
Gross Floor Area: around 43,000 m²
Description:
A super Grade-A office tower that will
be a showcase for health, resilience,
smart technology and sustainability

Reference: InvestHK
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West Kowloon Cultural District

Developer: West Kowloon

Cultural District Authority
Location: Yau Tsim Mong
Completion Date:
2018-2019 (Art Park), 2019 (Xiqu
Centre, Freespace), 2021 (M+),
2022 (Hong Kong Palace
Museum)
Gross Floor Area: around
400,000 m²

Description:
A vibrant cultural quarter
blending together art, education,
open space, hotel, office,
residential developments, retail,
dining and entertainment
facilities

Reference: WKCDA
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West Kowloon Cultural District

Developer: West Kowloon Cultural

District Authority
Location: Yau Tsim Mong
Completion Date:
2018-2019 (Art Park), 2019 (Xiqu
Centre, Freespace), 2021 (M+),
2022 (Hong Kong Palace Museum)
Gross Floor Area: around 400,000 m²

Description:
A vibrant cultural quarter blending
together art, education, open space,
hotel, office, residential
developments, retail, dining and
entertainment
facilities

Reference: WKCDA

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